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Recently, an investment advisor and Bitcoin proponent tweeted the claim that “[f]or most of human history” the “[s]eparation of money and state was the norm, even if the state stamped their ruler’s face on the coin.” Some strong disagreement (and some strong support) followed the tweet. The most categorical criticism asserted: “Money is and always […]

Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), the ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a new minority staff report on July 26 contending that, for more than a decade, China has made “a sustained effort . . . to gain influence over the Federal Reserve,” and that the Fed has failed “to […]

In assessing the possibility that a severe downturn occurred at the end of WWII, I took issue with conventional wartime and postwar output statistics, while taking the period’s unemployment statistics at face value. In so doing I set aside a hypothesis that disputes the unemployment numbers themselves. According to it, large numbers of would-be wartime […]

It was supposed to be a debacle. As the Second World War drew to a close, the nation’s leading economists feared that, once the armed services demobilized, at least 8 million men and women, perhaps many more, would be unemployed. That meant an unemployment rate of 12 percent—almost as high as the rate before Hitler […]

In December 1946, Clark Warburton published an article in the Political Science Quarterly titled, “Monetary Control under the Federal Reserve Act,” which was reprinted in chapter 14 of his landmark book, Depression, Inflation, and Monetary Policy (1966). He argues that the Federal Reserve’s failure to prevent the Great Depression was “a result, in part, of […]

(As many Alt-M readers will know, my interest in Bitcoin goes back to its earliest days, and even before that: like my grad school mentor and regular Alt-M contributor Lawrence White, I took part in the 1990’s “cypherpunk” movement that prefigured Bitcoin’s development. Not quite two years after Bitcoin’s January 2009 launch, when one Bitcoin […]

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In a thought-provoking article published by the IMF in April, Ruchir Agarwal and Miles Kimball argue for moving away from a “paper money standard” and toward an “electronic money standard.” The promised benefits include shorter recessions and lower average inflation. These benefits are said to result from eliminating the “zero lower bound” to nominal interest […]

The distinguished contributors to Populism and the Future of the Fed examine populist demands to expand the Fed’s mandate and the threat to the demarcation between fiscal and monetary policy. All the essays, except those by Charles Plosser and me, stem from Cato’s 39th Annual Monetary Conference, which took place virtually on November 18, 2021. […]

(Although my contributions to this series have so far been more-or-less in their proper order, this one isn’t: it occurred to me only relatively recently that it would be worthwhile to take stock of the overall progress of the recovery up to the outbreak of the Roosevelt Recession before delving into that episode. Had I […]

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How Common Has Private Currency Been?

Is China a Threat to the Fed? A Critique of the Portman Report

The New Deal and Recovery, Part 20, Appendix: The Fate of Rosie the Riveter

The New Deal and Recovery, Part 20: The Phantom Depression

Warburton on Theories of Monetary Control and the Fed

Bitcoin: Problems and Prospects

Revising the Bank Secrecy Act to Protect Privacy and Deter Criminals (CMFA Working Paper No.007)

Should the Fed Devalue Our Currency to Implement Negative Interest Rates?

Populism and the Future of the Fed: A New Book from Cato’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives

The New Deal and Recovery, Part 18: The Recovery So Far

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GOP Rep. introduces bill cutting off money to countries who discriminate based on sexual orientation

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Idaho governor signs law allowing firing squad executions

GOP Rep. introduces bill cutting off money to countries who discriminate based on sexual orientation