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.
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Op-ed: It’s time to reconsider the Fed’s Dual Mandate
By Jared Meyer and Johannes Schmidt This piece originally appeared on Forbes.com All this week, people anxiously awaited results from the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington, […]
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Op-ed: Don’t ask if the Fed will raise interest rates, it’s the wrong question
Central banks are vested with a tremendous amount of economic power, but there’s no real reason to think that they wield that power wisely. As the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Federal […]
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The moral obligation of monetary policy
When the monetary authority fools people into thinking inflation will be lower than it turns out to be, individuals produce more than they would if they had not been fooled.
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A different kind of monetary control
This piece was written in response to a recent Financial Times editorial. Have you ever doubted the real reasons governments throughout history and all over the world want to control what […]
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Confusion and contradiction at the Fed
By Michael Belongia and Peter Ireland Over the past several years, Federal Reserve officials have issued multiple and often conflicting statements about whether their federal funds rate target should be […]
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Money and the rule of law, continued
In my last post, I argued that monetary regimes should be judged not just on macroeconomic grounds, but also on whether they adhere to the rule of law. In this post, […]
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The Sound Money Project takes on the Fed at the Jackson Hole Summit
From left to right: Sound Money Editor Johannes Schmidt, Dr. William Luther of the Sound Money Project, U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chief Economist and former Sound Money Project Fellow Dr. Thomas Hogan, […]
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About the Greek losses
Economists and accountants don’t think about financial losses the same way. When a person buys an asset, such as shares of a company on the stock market, and then sees […]
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David Stockman’s The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
This book review originally appeared in the Cayman Financial Review For six years I’ve told audiences (and even more than a few social acquaintances who would listen) that the 2008-09 Global […]
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Op-ed: Time to restore sanity to the world’s monetary system
Earlier this week, Dr. Judy Shelton published a piece in The Hill that shed light on one of the world’s most pressing, yet least discussed, issues: our global monetary system. Using […]
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Op-ed: It’s time for millennials to reclaim money’s moral high ground
This morning in TownHall Finance, I made the claim that millennials must to reclaim money’s moral high ground. Young people today champion many causes- ranging from gun rights to school choice- but seem to […]
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Announcing sound money research grant opportunities
Sound Money Research Grants “The economic and moral arguments for sound money” The Atlas Network is proud to sponsor a research grant opportunity for students, young faculty and policy experts who are […]
