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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Counterfeiting versus Monetary Policy
“Congress is on a spending binge. With all the calls for bailouts, economic stimulus and other assorted handouts, there is a real risk of inflation in our future. If we […]
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Cato Institute’s Monetary Conference 2009
Our friends at the Cato Institute hosted their 27th Annual Monetary Conference: Restoring Global Financial Stability on November 19th, 2009. Go here to find the list of speakers and listen […]
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Inflation and Deficits
“With the massive increases in federal spending, inflation is one of the risks that awaits us. To protect us from the political demagoguery that will accompany that inflation, let’s now […]
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Transition to Sound Money
The Mises Instute’s Austrian Scholar’s Conference discusses the transition to sound money. Atlas would like to thank Bradley Jansen for providing the link.
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Price “Stability” for Venezuela
In something of a reversal of the usual government policies to keep prices high, the government of Venezuela is going to great lengths to keep prices low, even in the […]
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“Inflation: The Silent Tax”
“Inflation is a tax on financial assets. This tax is paid by those unlucky investors, corporations, and foreign central banks that hold financial assets denominated in the currency that is […]
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“Sound Money and a Liberal Market Order”
“Though circumstances and times change, the basic principles of economic progress and sound market order do not. There is no mystery about them. They involve sound money, low taxes, property […]
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“Income During Inflation”
“Even as the Dow sits above 10,000, the public remains justifiably anxious about the state of the economy. The Federal Reserve has worked overtime to convince the public that it […]
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“Capitalism Needs a Sound-Money Foundation”
“Let’s go back to the gold standard. If the very idea seems at odds with what is currently happening in our country — with Congress preparing to pass a massive […]
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“The Fed and the Crisis: A Reply to Ben Bernanke”
“Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke spent most of his speech to the American Economic Association on Jan. 3 responding to the critique that easy monetary policy during 2002-2005 contributed […]
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“The Roaring Twenties and the Bullish Eighties”
“There are significant parallels between the Roaring 1920s and the Bullish 1980s. Both decades were characterized by a policy-induced artificial boom that ended with an inevitable bust. The Federal Reserve […]
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How the Gold Standard Worked, 1880-1913
“This essay reinterprets the gold standard by applying the monetary theory of the balance of payments to the experience of the two most important countries on it, America and Britain. […]