All Articles tagged central banking
- Book Reviews
July 06, 2023 CDT An excellent primer for those who wish understand the opacities of modern money, Brown and Pringle's new book also suggests monetary reforms, including a gold standard. Review by Joseph Solis-Mullen.
- Articles
July 15, 2022 CDT The First Bank of the United States induced credit expansion, inflation, speculative overinvestment, external specie drain, and finally, a recession in 1797, all consistent with Austrian business cycle theory.
- Book Reviews
January 10, 2022 CDT Peter Earle reviews Boettke, Salter, and Smith's argument that the rule of law should be brought to bear on the Federal Reserve, to rein in its distortions and disruptions.
- Book Reviews
August 05, 2021 CDT Nikolay Gertchev reviews Arkadiusz Sieron's effort to investigate the failure of expansionary monetary policy to address the challenges of the 2008-09 Great Recession.
- Articles
April 15, 2021 CDT Nikolay Gertchev shows that the inflation-targeting literature provides an illusionary vision of what a modern central bank can achieve. The monetary history of Ukraine illustrates the pitfalls of inflation targeting.