Lessons from Cyprus
The first lesson to be learned is not to trust pronouncements about the safety of banks.
Money and Banking
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The Money-ness of Bitcoins
The role of the algorithm is to ensure a declining progression of the overall stock of bitcoins, by halving the reward every four years.
Explaining Persistence in Cost Efficiency Indices
From the session on “Applied Economics,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
The Gold Standard that Never Was
Thorsten Polleit delivered a speech at the Austrian Economics Re
Controlled and Uncontrolled Reserves at the Federal Reserve, 1921-1933
From the session on “Studies in Economic History,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
Why the Greenbackers Are Wrong
A subset of the end-the-Fed crowd opposes the Fed for peripheral or entirely wrongheaded reasons.
Cyprus and the Unraveling of Fractional-Reserve Banking
A few more banking crises will likely cause confidence in the fractional-reserve banking system to evaporate.
A Defense of Free Banking and Monetary Disequilibrium Theory
From the session on “Monetary Theory and Policy,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
Theory of Money and Fiduciary Media
Recorded 21 March 2013 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
