With the help of Atlas’s sound money fellows, Tom Duncan and John Robinson (Ph.D. econ students at George Mason University), the Sound Money Project at Atlas is starting to attract attention. Several state and national nonprofit organizations (the likes of the Pacific Research Institute, FEE, and the Illinois Policy Institute) have been contacted in regard [...]

Marius Gustavson, project manager at Civita where he conducts research on monetary policy, has written a report, “The Financial Crisis: Market Failure or Government Failure,” for this Norwegian free-market think tank . Citing both domestic and global factors as contributing to what he calls the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression, he finds that [...]

Last week Civita in Norway released a 125 page report on the cause of the current financial crisis. While most in Norway, and in fact the world, blame the crisis largely on market failures. Civita takes the opposite view however and outlines how the crisis is in large part an outcome of government’s political decisions.
While [...]

Atlas founder Antony Fisher’s 1974 book, Must History Repeat Itself?, contained a list of eleven priorities for economic reform.  The top two concerned eliminating government meddling in the value of money.  During the low-inflation “long boom” of 1983-2000, the topic of Sound Money seemed to lose its salience.  But today, we see that the answer [...]

Former Estonian Prime Minister Mart Laar (former keynote of Atlas’s Freedom Dinner, and good friend to several think tanks in the network) has a good piece in the Wall Street Journal this morning, “Freedom Is Still the Best Policy.” He makes the case that policymakers should study the transition experiences of post-communist countries in [...]

Think tanks around the world have been seizing the opportunities that have been presented given the current financial climate. While at times, the outlook seems bleak, organizations are working to make the case that free market economic theories are the best ways to explain and to solve the economic crisis.
As you read earlier this week, [...]

Atlas’s partner for a joint conference held in Seoul a couple of months ago, the Center for Free Enterprise recently published several papers written by its friends on the current financial crisis:
Financial Crisis and Economic Freedom by Mr. Bok, Kohill (Novelist):
As the current financial storm has swept through the globe beyond expectable level, anti-liberalists have [...]

While in Ecuador earlier this month, Atlas´s Romulo Lopez Cordero, was interviewed on Tribuna Liberal, a program conducted by the Instituto Ecuatoriano de Economia Politica (IEEP.
In the interview (In Spanish) , Romulo discusses international financial crisis, it’s causes, consequences and possible solutions.
You can learn more about this appearance here.

Monetary Conference in New York, Part I - Leonard P. Liggio
The semi-annual conference of the Committee for Monetary Research and Education (CMRE) met at the Union League Club of New York, October 16, 2008. The topic: Is this the Epicenter of the Biggest Financial Crisis in History? The [...]

On Tuesday of this week, Kristina Kirchner, President of Argentina, announced that the government will be nationalizing $30 billion in private pension funds. As you can imagine, Atlas´s think tanks in Argentina have been writing and blogging about this economic catastrophe, which not only undermines the rule of law, but also puts Argentine property rights [...]