Topic: Sound Money

Financial Depth and the Fed’s Balance Sheet

– December 15, 2017

The Fed’s balance sheet crowds out bank lending, stifling economic growth.

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How Banning Bitcoin Could Backfire

– December 13, 2017

Banning Bitcoin might have the unintended consequence of causing the average citizen to think a lot harder about why governments have a monopoly on currency in the first place.

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Why Is Bitcoin So Valuable?

– December 5, 2017

The price of bitcoin has soared and many are left scratching their heads.

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Coinage and Fiscal Finagling

– December 4, 2017

Coinage provided an easy-to-assess standard. It also presented a significant temptation for the fiscal authority.

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Bitcoin and the Marxist Theory of Value

– December 4, 2017

Is bitcoin based on a Marxist theory of value?

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Ancient Human Activity and the Necessary Conditions for Indirect Exchange

– December 4, 2017

Chartalists are right: debt preceded money. But that fact doesn’t do the work they think it does.

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Monetary Policy Coordination: What Could Go Wrong?

– November 30, 2017

There are two reasons monetary policy cooperation might backfire.

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The War on Cash: What Do You Have to Hide?

– November 28, 2017

Banning cash is inconsistent with the liberal tradition. It is the way of despots.

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Intrinsically Worthless to Whom?

– November 21, 2017

Money is not about one person in isolation. It is social.

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Why Do Mobile Money Services Cooperate?

– November 19, 2017

To anyone familiar with free banking systems, the answer is obvious.

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M-PESA Goes Global

– November 19, 2017

Customers can now send mobile money to those on competing networks.

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Why Do Central Bankers Change Their Tune?

– November 15, 2017

If we want sound money, we cannot afford to ignore the political process.

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