Ludwig von Mises viewed sound money as a limit on government power and as "an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments. "
Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss some of the new policies the Biden administration wants to inflict on us, on topics ranging from bitcoin to foreign policy.
There is no better work to explain the broader implications of central banking which go almost totally unremarked in the financial press than The Ethics of Money Production .
There's no reason to assume 2021 will bring a reversal of 2020's trends. Many of the fights that began in 2020 are likely to intensify in the new year.
Monetary economist George Selgin agrees with Bob on the flaws with MMT, but then the two continue their debate (started at the Soho Forum) on fractional reserve free banking.
07/24/2020Quarterly Journal of Austrian EconomicsGeorge Pickering
Does the emergence of bitcoin invalidate the regression theorem? William Luther argues that it does, but Pickering here contends that Luther's view misinterprets the regression theorem.