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(This editor's note is cross-posted from the  Spring/Summer 2021 edition of the Cato Journal.) In 1996, Cato held its 14th...

(This post completes my three-part discussion of the "regime uncertainty" hypothesis, according to which the New Deal hampered recovery by...

(This post continues my discussion of the "regime uncertainty" hypothesis, according to which the New Deal hampered recovery by causing...

TechnopopulismAndCentralBanks_CarolaBinder_CMFAWP004   The post Technopopulism and Central Banks (CMFA Working Paper No. 004) appeared first on Alt-M.

In her CMFA working paper, Carola Binder discusses a new approach for understanding why central bankers are pressured—by both politicians...

"This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. …he only thing we have to...

In his first speech as a member of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, Christopher Waller defended Fed independence and...

Alerted by a tweet by him, I recently listened to a December 2020 C-SPAN talk, on "Paper Money in Antebellum...

Every hoary myth about the private market's unfitness to supply means of exchange has roots that trace back to the...

ThePrivateMintInEconomics_LawrenceHWhite_CMFAWP003   The post The Private Mint In Economics: Evidence from American Gold Rushes (CMFA Working Paper No. 003) appeared...