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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When You Absolutely, Positively MUST Have Inflation
Technically speaking, a policy of upholding or expanding the fiat-money stock in an environment where banks are no longer willing to extend credit and issue new fiat money appears to be technically possible. However, the Austrian School of economics points out that an economy’s production structure will be turned upside down once the hitherto relentless…
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Antony Fisher seeking funds to promote sound money (from a 1985 letter)
Early in the history of Atlas, Antony Fisher, its founder, was fundraising for a program to promote sound money. In 1985, a few months before I arrived to Atlas, he […]
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Judy Shelton recommends China to engage in monetary reform on Live TV
The co-director of the Sound Money Project at Atlas, Judy Shelton, recommends the Chinese government to engage in monetary reform. Other aspects of the interview are also very constructive. Watch […]
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A Swiss initiative which could bring us true monetary reform
Walter Grinder, that great educator, economist, thinker, and former Atlas trustee, alerted us to this article which can be a source of optimism for lovers of sound money: http://dailyreckoning.com/monetary-reform-the-beginning-of-the-beginning/ A key […]
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Monetary Summit Today in Utah
I am planning to join some of the sharpest minds in business, finance, politics, law and economics, who are working to promote a framework for the future of monetary policy. […]
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China: America’s Financial Colony or Mercantilist Predator?
China: America’s Financial Colony or Mercantilist Predator?, by Lewis E. Lehrman The article was originally posted here. The author argues the U.S. has a colonial-like power over China because of […]
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Congressman Mike Pence and Judy Shelton on the destructive moral and economic effects of monetary manipulation
Atlas and FreedomWorks, each with its own mission, work to promote educational programs in favor of sound money, this 5 min video Congressman Mike Pence and Judy Shelton on Sound […]
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The shrinking dollar: who should go to the shrink?
Until recently, paper money advocates regarded those who pushed for letting the market choose gold or defining the monetary yardstick as a certain amount of gold as lunatics. Look at […]
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Ignoble Nobel: Krugman explicitly advocating inflation
Today in the New York Times Paul Krugman calls for “an all-out effort by the Federal Reserve to get the economy moving, with the deliberate goal of generating higher inflation […]
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Investing in gold, loving the free society
My late economic professor and mentor, Hans F. Sennholz, practiced what he preached. His example added to the strength of his classes. Forecasting the great weakening of paper money he […]
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Checkmate?
The turmoils affecting the economics and financial markets in the United States and Europe do not seem to go away as fast as anyone would want to. Those who warned […]
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“Should Governments buy gold?” Even New York Times creates discussion blog
When I was studying under Hans Sennholz, a student of Von Mises, our text book for monetary economics was Mises The Theory of Money and Credit. It was 1978-1979, and the […]
