Money and Banking

The Banking Act of 1933, sometimes referred to as the Glass-Steagall Act, separated commercial and investment banking, instituted Federal deposit insurance, 

In the last twenty years, continual financial innovation has led to the increased use of MMMFs as a substitute for checkable deposits.  While many technical considerations suggest that it

No matter what reform proposal is adopted, the state will attempt to strike back against it to restore to itself the immense benefits it receives from the existing system. 

That Hayek’s work on money, investment, and business cycle theory should be misunderstood and misrepresented poses nothing new. 

Dinosaur reveals many relevant truths that do not appear in World Bank financial statements and press release while reviewing much of the relevant literature. 

In this article it will be argued that collective corruption - which is the logical result of government interventionism in the field of money production 

The article by Jörg Guido Hülsmann, “Free Banking and the Free Bankers,” is an important contribution to a proper understanding of free-banking systems. He is perfectly correct in blaming some advocates of free banking who support arguments which are irrelevant or wrong,

The authors argue that a currency board is a creation of the state, aiming at granting particular political favors,and purposefully designed to secure the reappearance of an independent domestic money producer.

During the late nineteenth century, when silver agitation threatened the gold standard in the United States, gold bonds offered investors some protection from the uncertainties concerning the monetary standard in the United States.