George Selgin

George Selgin

George Selgin is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Georgia. His research covers a broad range of topics within the field of monetary economics, including monetary history, macroeconomic theory, and the history of monetary thought. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including The Theory of Free Banking, Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and The Beginnings of Modern Coinage, Money: Free & Unfree, Less Than Zero: The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy, Floored! How a Misguided Fed Experiment Deepened and Prolonged the Great Recession, and The Menace of Fiscal QE.

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George Selgin joins Jim Blasingame to report on the possibility of the Fed using their charter to expand their portfolio outside of general sovereign monetary support into funding of specific projects, and the many troubling implications thereof.
George Selgin joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what Alt M means, and why your monetary future will look increasingly different from what you know, plus why we should expect U.S. dollar denominated private cryptocurrencies to emerge.
George Selgin joins Jim Blasingame to report on what goes on during an FOMC meeting, and why we no longer wonder what the Fed will announce following a two-day meeting.