Sound Money
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Why Facebook’s Stablecoin is Good News for Crypto
Technology rarely does what we hope or predict it will do. In a year of falling exchange rates and failed ICOs, Facebook’s co-option of blockchain technology might be the best news for the industry of 2018.
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Tether again Breaks the Buck
Under ideal conditions, stablecoins would come to exist due to pure market demand rather than as a reflection of the regulatory climate that has limited access to conventional banking services.
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The Puzzle of Money and the Lessons of History
Right now, we have a disordered and dysfunctional money system. This poses very acute risks and dangers that because of the nature or money can have system-wide effects. We should look at how monetary systems have been reformed in previous times, and also rethink the way money is commonly taught and thought about.
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Private Enterprise Can Manage Money Production
What we’ve learned is that money can be privately produced. Hayek’s dream of choice in currency can be reality. What form it will take in the future no one can know for sure. What’s more, there is no end game here. The process of innovation will never stop.
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Fiat Money’s Legal Monopoly
Requiring that citizens track transactions in gold or alternative currencies and pay taxes on gains and losses relative to the dollar is just another mechanism for keeping the monetary playing field unbalanced in favor of government fiat.
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Your Signature No Longer Matters
The personal signature has a notorious history: J.S. Bach’s on his compositions, the founding fathers on the Declaration of Independence, Picasso on his paintings, and the president’s today on executive orders. Creating your own was a right of passage. With credit card companies admitting the obvious that it does nothing to verify your identity, does…
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How Banning Bitcoin Could Backfire
Banning Bitcoin might have the unintended consequence of causing the average citizen to think a lot harder about why governments have a monopoly on currency in the first place.
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CMRE Speakers Present Vastly Different Visions for the Future of Blockchain Technology
On October 3, the Committee for Monetary Research and Education held a dinner in New York City featuring four distinguished speakers on the topic of blockchain technology versus fiat currency.
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Dear Mr. President
In the fall of 1974, AIER founder E.C. Harwood wrote a letter to President Gerald Ford.
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How Much Control Does the Fed Actually Have?
AIER Trustee Walker Todd recently took note of this provocative piece from George Selgin, which argues that the Federal Reserve Bank’s actions since the Great Recession have done little good to boost the economy.
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Why Facebook’s Stablecoin is Good News for Crypto
Technology rarely does what we hope or predict it will do. In a year of falling exchange rates and failed ICOs, Facebook’s co-option of blockchain technology might be the best news for the industry of 2018.
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•
Tether again Breaks the Buck
Under ideal conditions, stablecoins would come to exist due to pure market demand rather than as a reflection of the regulatory climate that has limited access to conventional banking services.
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•
The Puzzle of Money and the Lessons of History
Right now, we have a disordered and dysfunctional money system. This poses very acute risks and dangers that because of the nature or money can have system-wide effects. We should look at how monetary systems have been reformed in previous times, and also rethink the way money is commonly taught and thought about.
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Private Enterprise Can Manage Money Production
What we’ve learned is that money can be privately produced. Hayek’s dream of choice in currency can be reality. What form it will take in the future no one can know for sure. What’s more, there is no end game here. The process of innovation will never stop.
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•
Fiat Money’s Legal Monopoly
Requiring that citizens track transactions in gold or alternative currencies and pay taxes on gains and losses relative to the dollar is just another mechanism for keeping the monetary playing field unbalanced in favor of government fiat.
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•
Your Signature No Longer Matters
The personal signature has a notorious history: J.S. Bach’s on his compositions, the founding fathers on the Declaration of Independence, Picasso on his paintings, and the president’s today on executive orders. Creating your own was a right of passage. With credit card companies admitting the obvious that it does nothing to verify your identity, does…
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How Banning Bitcoin Could Backfire
Banning Bitcoin might have the unintended consequence of causing the average citizen to think a lot harder about why governments have a monopoly on currency in the first place.
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CMRE Speakers Present Vastly Different Visions for the Future of Blockchain Technology
On October 3, the Committee for Monetary Research and Education held a dinner in New York City featuring four distinguished speakers on the topic of blockchain technology versus fiat currency.
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Dear Mr. President
In the fall of 1974, AIER founder E.C. Harwood wrote a letter to President Gerald Ford.
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•
How Much Control Does the Fed Actually Have?
AIER Trustee Walker Todd recently took note of this provocative piece from George Selgin, which argues that the Federal Reserve Bank’s actions since the Great Recession have done little good to boost the economy.