December 2020

The answer depends on what you mean. Succeeded at what? With the US dollar price of Bitcoin reaching an all-time high above $23,000 this month, and its market cap reaching an all-time high above $400 billion, there has been much celebration

 [This is the last half of a two-part critique of Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig's highly influential paper purporting to show that fractional reserve banking systems are inherently unstable. Part I can be found here.] Sauce for the Goose… Half a century

Has any theoretical work on banking been more influential than Douglas Diamond and Phillip Dybvig's 1983 JPE article, "Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity"? If so, I can't think of it. With well over 12,000 Google citations and counting, it's

On November 19, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced that he would sunset five of the Federal Reserve's emergency lending programs at year-end: the Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility, Secondary Market CCF, Municipal Liquidity Facility, Main Street Lending Program, and Term

JanetYellensLiftOff_GeorgeSelgin_CMFAWP001   The post Janet Yellen's Lift Off (CMFA Working Paper No. 001) appeared first on Alt-M.

Remember the Wide World of Sports? Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport… the thrill of victory… and the agony of defeat… the human drama of athletic competition. I loved it. You never knew exactly which sport you'd

This is the third and final essay in my series on proposals to help reduce the number of unbanked households in America. In my prior essays, I examined the history of the postal savings system between 1910 and 1966, and