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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Advisory Board: Steve H. Hanke, Jerry L. Jordan, Lawrence H. White
Director: William J. Luther
Senior Fellows: Nicolás Cachanosky, Gerald P. Dwyer, Joshua R. Hendrickson, Thomas L. Hogan, Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr., Alexander W. Salter
Fellows: J.P. Koning
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“Federal Government Continues Its Money Monopoly”
“Prices rise soonest, fastest, and highest where the money is being loaned out. During the realestate boom until 2007, much of the lending went to real estate, and land values […]
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“Freedom and Sound Money”
“In all countries of the so-called ‘free world,’ money represents nowadays a government controlled irredeemable paper, or ‘fiat,’ money standard. The widely held view is that this money system would […]
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Change Policy, Not Blame
The Obama administration thinks it has found the cure all for its economic woes. The solution: regulate, restrict and play God in the economy. (Not exactly a new strategy for […]
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“The U.K.’s Persistent Inflation Problem”
“The U.K.’s economic policy puzzle just got harder. Inflation was expected to rise in December, but not by a full percentage point to 2.9%. That is well above market expectations […]
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“The Dynamics of Disintervention”
“Examples of the move from piecemeal to comprehensive intervention are found in the 1930s after the collapse of social democratic policies in Weimar Germany and in the United States after […]
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Cato Capitol Hill Briefing: What Caused the Recession?
On February 5, 2010, our friends at the Cato Institute will be hosting a Capitol Hill Briefing, “Greed, Irresponsibility, or Policy Mistakes: What Caused the Recession?”. Go here for more […]
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FEE Interview With Peter Boettke and Steven Horwitz
Mike Van Winkle interviews Professors Peter Boettke and Steven Horwitz, co-authors of the recent FEE monograph “The House That Uncle Sam Built,” about what led to the financial meltdown and […]
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Interview With George Selgin
“I use the term to mean laissez-faire banking — banking without any special government regulations or restrictions. Like free trade, it’s an ideal concept. It doesn’t refer to any specific […]
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“In What Respects Will the Information Age Make Central Banks Obsolete?”
“Like a post office, a central bank does useful things. That fact that it does useful things does not make either institution efficient, at least not in its present-day form […]
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Fed Up
“Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), the libertarian-leaning congressman and failed 2008 GOP presidential candidate, has been suspicious of the Federal Reserve since before first entering Congress in 1976. In a 1981 […]
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“Denationalisation of Money”
“In my despair about the hopelessness of finidng a politically feasible solution to what is technically the simplist possible problem, namely to stop inflation, I threw out in a lecture […]
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The Fed Is Too Powerful To Be Unaccountable
“Now is the time to examine the proper functions of the Federal Reserve System–especially those of the Board–and make systemic changes. The popularity of US Rep. Ron Paul’s bill to […]