Sound Money Project
The Sound Money Project was founded in January 2009 to conduct research and promote awareness about monetary stability and financial privacy. The project is comprised of leading academics and practitioners in money, banking, and macroeconomics. It offers regular commentary and in-depth analysis on monetary policy, alternative monetary systems, financial markets regulation, cryptocurrencies, and the history of monetary and macroeconomic thought.
The Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy
“Economists do not agree about how monetary policy affects the economy. Different observers weigh in different ways the various specific channels through which monetary policy works. Views diverge even about […]
Monetary Policy Operating Procedures
“This work provides an overview of monetary policy operating procedures in emerging market economies. Most of the discussion reflects the situation in mid-1998. The emphasis is on general principles although […]
Honest Money
“There is a debt crisis in the making. It is international. Every industrial nation on earth faces a crisis that could dwarf the crisis of the 1930’s. The banks of […]
“Belongia on the Fed”
“Michael Belongia of the University of Mississippi and former economist at the St. Louis Federal Reserve talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the inner workings, politics, and economics of […]
“Credit Crisis – The Essentials”
“In the fall of 2008, the credit squeeze, which had emerged a little more than a year before, ballooned into Wall Street’s biggest crisis since the Great Depression. As hundreds […]
How Does Obamacare Affect Your Money?
Last August, Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor for National Review magazine and a contributor to many leading newspapers such as the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street […]
Teach Freedom Initiative in Philadelphia!
Atlas is going to hold a Teach Freedom Initiative (TFI) is a half-day conference on sound money on April 9th, 2010, at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel in Philadelphia, before […]
Sound Money Goes to APEE!
The Sound Money Project has secured a panel at the 2010 Association of Private Enterprise Education Conference in Las Vegas. Among the authors on this panel are Dr. Edward Stringham, […]
“Inflation Alert”
“The 1970s was a decade of stagflation — the concurrence of a rising inflation rate and stagnant economic growth. The U.S. economy has not now reached the double-digit inflation rate […]
“China’s Hidden Debt Risks 2012 Crisis”
“By Shih’s count, China’s debt may reach 39.838 trillion yuan ($5.8 trillion) next year. His forecast for debt-to-GDP compares with an International Monetary Fund estimate for China of 22 percent […]
A Doomsday Cycle
Economists Peter Boone and Simon Johnson think the economic system could be stuck in a “doomsday cycle”: “Over the last three decades, the US financial system has tripled in size, […]
Why No Tea Parties in Europe?
“I’ve been doing a little reading this morning about the Greek crisis and related problems in Europe. One take, and it makes sense to me, is that many European countries […]