Monetary Theory

August 2 saw Matthew Beller's Daily Article "The Coming Second Life Business Cycle," which sounded at first blush like yet another announcement of the coming Rapture. But it described the fiat money (Linden Dollars) of the fiat world of the Internet,...

George Washington University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg steps down today after 19 years in office. As a onetime GW student and longtime neighbor of the school, I long held a mixed view of Trachtenberg's tenure, on the one hand applauding his efforts to develop the physical campus—...

The ancient transgressions of murder, pillage, bestiality, thievery, and rape still shout from the headlines. O Tempora, O Mores, as the ancients proclaimed in dismay a couple millennia ago: meaning what crummy people, what crummy times. They ought to read this morning's paper — they'd yearn for...

Sophistpundit gives What Has Government Done to Our Money (print,...