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TheGameStopEpisode_AllanMalz_CMFAWP005   The post The GameStop Episode: What Happened And What Does It Mean? (CMFA Working Paper No. 005) appeared first on Alt-M.

A couple months ago, in arguing that "The Fed should give everyone a bank account," journalist Matt Yglesias cited what he took to be an instructive precedent: "Once upon a time, governments didn't issue paper currency, and instead banknotes were

(This editor's note is cross-posted from the  Spring/Summer 2021 edition of the Cato Journal.) In 1996, Cato held its 14th Annual Monetary Conference, "The Future of Money in the Information Age."  The proceedings, along with additional essays, appeared in a book

(This post completes my three-part discussion of the "regime uncertainty" hypothesis, according to which the New Deal hampered recovery by causing businessmen to fear policy changes that might render their investments unprofitable.  Links to the previous posts about regime uncertainty,

(This post continues my discussion of the "regime uncertainty" hypothesis, according to which the New Deal hampered recovery by causing businessmen to fear policy changes that might render their investments unprofitable.)   Insull's Monstrosity The 1935 Revenue Act wasn't the only measure that

In her CMFA working paper, Carola Binder discusses a new approach for understanding why central bankers are pressured—by both politicians and the public—to deviate from their mandates. Further, Binder argues that this new approach "strengthens the case for limiting monetary

TechnopopulismAndCentralBanks_CarolaBinder_CMFAWP004   The post Technopopulism and Central Banks (CMFA Working Paper No. 004) appeared first on Alt-M.

"This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. …[T]he only thing we have to fear is fear itself." —   FDR, in his first inaugural address. "There is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof

In his first speech as a member of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, Christopher Waller defended Fed independence and reassured his audience that "deficit financing and debt servicing issues play no role in our policy decisions and never will."

Alerted by a tweet by him, I recently listened to a December 2020 C-SPAN talk, on "Paper Money in Antebellum America," by historian Joshua Greenberg, the author of Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early