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(Although my contributions to this series have so far been more-or-less in their proper order, this one isn't:  it occurred...

In a thought-provoking article published by the IMF in April, Ruchir Agarwal and Miles Kimball argue for moving away from...

The distinguished contributors to Populism and the Future of the Fed examine populist demands to expand the Fed’s mandate and...

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(As many Alt-M readers will know, my interest in Bitcoin goes back to its earliest days, and even before that:...

In December 1946, Clark Warburton published an article in the Political Science Quarterly titled, “Monetary Control under the Federal Reserve...

(Previous installments of "The Keynesian Myth" are here and here.) Balancing Act As Richard Adelstein (1991, p. 177) observes, far...

(The first installment of "The Keynesian Myth"  is here.) All-American Money Makers Although conventional wisdom has it that Keynes considered...

(The first of an essay in 3 installments.) In The Money Makers, his 2015 book on the New Deal and...

Building a bridge is costly: It takes labor and machinery and raw materials that have alternative uses. Does it follow...