Sound Money Project
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Monetary Policy Operating Procedures
“This work provides an overview of monetary policy operating procedures in emerging market economies. Most of the discussion reflects the situation in mid-1998. The emphasis is on general principles although in practice country-specific factors condition actual procedures. Yet there has been a certain convergence in monetary policy instruments and procedures in recent years, not only…
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Honest Money
“There is a debt crisis in the making. It is international. Every industrial nation on earth faces a crisis that could dwarf the crisis of the 1930’s. The banks of the world have done the bidding of the politicians, and they have loaned hundreds of billions of dollars and other currencies to the ‘less developed…
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“Belongia on the Fed”
“Michael Belongia of the University of Mississippi and former economist at the St. Louis Federal Reserve talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the inner workings, politics, and economics of the Federal Reserve. Belongia talks about the role that power and politics play in Federal Reserve decision-making and how various Fed chairs used their power…
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“Credit Crisis – The Essentials”
“In the fall of 2008, the credit squeeze, which had emerged a little more than a year before, ballooned into Wall Street’s biggest crisis since the Great Depression. As hundreds of billions in mortgage-related investments went bad, mighty investment banks that once ruled high finance have crumbled or reinvented themselves as humdrum commercial banks. The…
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How Does Obamacare Affect Your Money?
Last August, Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor for National Review magazine and a contributor to many leading newspapers such as the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, published a Time article on Obamacare and its paradoxes. Over the past few months, this article has lost none of its relevance on the current…
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Teach Freedom Initiative in Philadelphia!
Atlas is going to hold a Teach Freedom Initiative (TFI) is a half-day conference on sound money on April 9th, 2010, at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel in Philadelphia, before the Philadelphia Society Meeting. The theme of the conference is “The Attack on Sound Money and Entrepreneurship: Threatening Liberty in America.” This mini-conference begins with…
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Sound Money Goes to APEE!
The Sound Money Project has secured a panel at the 2010 Association of Private Enterprise Education Conference in Las Vegas. Among the authors on this panel are Dr. Edward Stringham, Dr. Gerald O’Driscoll, Jr., and Atlas’s own Marius Gustavson, Leonard Liggio, and Alejandro Chafuen. The conference will take place April 11-13 at Caesar’s Palace. APEE…
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“Inflation Alert”
“The 1970s was a decade of stagflation — the concurrence of a rising inflation rate and stagnant economic growth. The U.S. economy has not now reached the double-digit inflation rate (almost 15% by 1981), or the 9% unemployment rate, experienced back then. But the early ’70s, not the decade’s end, offer the more ominous parallels…
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“China’s Hidden Debt Risks 2012 Crisis”
“By Shih’s count, China’s debt may reach 39.838 trillion yuan ($5.8 trillion) next year. His forecast for debt-to-GDP compares with an International Monetary Fund estimate for China of 22 percent this year, which excludes local-government liabilities. The IMF sees Spain at 69.6 percent, the U.S. at 94 percent, Greece at 115 percent and Japan at…
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A Doomsday Cycle
Economists Peter Boone and Simon Johnson think the economic system could be stuck in a “doomsday cycle”: “Over the last three decades, the US financial system has tripled in size, as measured by total credit relative to GDP. Each time the system runs into problems, the Federal Reserve quickly lowers interest rates to revive it.…
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Monetary Policy Operating Procedures
“This work provides an overview of monetary policy operating procedures in emerging market economies. Most of the discussion reflects the situation in mid-1998. The emphasis is on general principles although in practice country-specific factors condition actual procedures. Yet there has been a certain convergence in monetary policy instruments and procedures in recent years, not only…
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Honest Money
“There is a debt crisis in the making. It is international. Every industrial nation on earth faces a crisis that could dwarf the crisis of the 1930’s. The banks of the world have done the bidding of the politicians, and they have loaned hundreds of billions of dollars and other currencies to the ‘less developed…
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“Belongia on the Fed”
“Michael Belongia of the University of Mississippi and former economist at the St. Louis Federal Reserve talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the inner workings, politics, and economics of the Federal Reserve. Belongia talks about the role that power and politics play in Federal Reserve decision-making and how various Fed chairs used their power…
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“Credit Crisis – The Essentials”
“In the fall of 2008, the credit squeeze, which had emerged a little more than a year before, ballooned into Wall Street’s biggest crisis since the Great Depression. As hundreds of billions in mortgage-related investments went bad, mighty investment banks that once ruled high finance have crumbled or reinvented themselves as humdrum commercial banks. The…
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How Does Obamacare Affect Your Money?
Last August, Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor for National Review magazine and a contributor to many leading newspapers such as the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, published a Time article on Obamacare and its paradoxes. Over the past few months, this article has lost none of its relevance on the current…
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Teach Freedom Initiative in Philadelphia!
Atlas is going to hold a Teach Freedom Initiative (TFI) is a half-day conference on sound money on April 9th, 2010, at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel in Philadelphia, before the Philadelphia Society Meeting. The theme of the conference is “The Attack on Sound Money and Entrepreneurship: Threatening Liberty in America.” This mini-conference begins with…
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Sound Money Goes to APEE!
The Sound Money Project has secured a panel at the 2010 Association of Private Enterprise Education Conference in Las Vegas. Among the authors on this panel are Dr. Edward Stringham, Dr. Gerald O’Driscoll, Jr., and Atlas’s own Marius Gustavson, Leonard Liggio, and Alejandro Chafuen. The conference will take place April 11-13 at Caesar’s Palace. APEE…
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“Inflation Alert”
“The 1970s was a decade of stagflation — the concurrence of a rising inflation rate and stagnant economic growth. The U.S. economy has not now reached the double-digit inflation rate (almost 15% by 1981), or the 9% unemployment rate, experienced back then. But the early ’70s, not the decade’s end, offer the more ominous parallels…
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“China’s Hidden Debt Risks 2012 Crisis”
“By Shih’s count, China’s debt may reach 39.838 trillion yuan ($5.8 trillion) next year. His forecast for debt-to-GDP compares with an International Monetary Fund estimate for China of 22 percent this year, which excludes local-government liabilities. The IMF sees Spain at 69.6 percent, the U.S. at 94 percent, Greece at 115 percent and Japan at…
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A Doomsday Cycle
Economists Peter Boone and Simon Johnson think the economic system could be stuck in a “doomsday cycle”: “Over the last three decades, the US financial system has tripled in size, as measured by total credit relative to GDP. Each time the system runs into problems, the Federal Reserve quickly lowers interest rates to revive it.…
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