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Ramaswamy On Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)

June 30, 2023 0

Ramaswamy on CBDC By: Alexander William Salter Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican candidate for President, has a strong position on central bank digital currencies (CBDC): “Hell no.” His proposals for reforming the Fed have major problems, […]

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Biden’s Inflation Malarkey

June 23, 2023 0

President Biden’s Inflation Malarkey By: Alexander William Salter President Biden took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to defend his economic record. He claims that “as supply chains continue to unsnarl, company profit […]

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Some Bad Explanations For Inflation

June 25, 2022 0

Bad Explanations for Inflation By: Alexander William Salter While decomposing inflation into its constituent parts is empirically tricky, its essence is simple. Inflation results from too much money chasing too few goods. Milton Friedman popularized […]

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3 Common Myths About Money & Inflation

November 22, 2021 0

Three Common Myths About Money and Inflation By: Alexander William Salter Inflation is one of the most studied phenomena in economics. We have a pretty good idea of where it comes from and how it […]

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Monetary Control: Looking At Central Banks Today

May 15, 2021 0

Monetary Control: Central Banks Today By: Alexander William Salter Most wealthy countries today have central banks. And most of these central banks operate discretionarily. What this means is that monetary policymakers have significant latitude to […]

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Central Banking & Heavy Hand of the State

February 20, 2021 1

Central Banking and the Heavy Hand of the State By: Alexander William Salter The evolution of the banking system, as I previously described it, was “ideal-typical.” The description’s purpose was to get at the essence […]