The Atlas Sound Money Project is proud to announce the winners of its 2010 Atlas Sound Money Essay Contest.
We are grateful for the scores of carefully crafted, well-reasoned essays that we received from undergraduate and graduate students and young scholars from the think tank and policy communities. It has been gratifying to see so many [...]

The deadline for Atlas’s Sound Money Essay Contest, January 15th, 2010, is fast approaching, If you are a student, a young faculty, or a policy writer interested in the cause of sound money, here is an opportunity for you to articulate your ideas and win cash prizes.
Prizes:

The overall winner of the Essay [...]

Here is an opportunity for students, scholars, and policymakers trying to make sense of the U.S.’ money woes to articulate in a short essay their ideas and policy prescriptions as to what caused our financial crisis and how best to avert the occurrence of such an event in the future.
Key questions stare at us: should [...]

Please join Atlas for its monthly INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY meeting, which will be held on September 17th  from 10:00-11:30AM.
The speakers this month will be addressing the topic:

“Monetary Policy: Threats of State Intervention “

NORWAY- Marius Gustavson, Civita.
BULGARIA- Tsvet Tsonevski, Institute for Market Economics.
TURKEY/ USA-Anthony Randazzo, Reason Foundation.

We will begin promptly at 10:00 AM and conclude by 11:30 [...]

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 [...]

In our desire to reach as many folks who can contribute to sound money literacy as possible, Atlas has recently created a Facebook group to  open a forum where students and professors alike can discuss issues related to sound money. The site offers excellent articles written by monetary scholars and policy experts.
As a reminder to [...]

In the Oscar Wilde comedy, The Importance of Being Ernest, the governess is instructing Ernest’s ward in economics. Using J. S. Mill’s The Principles of Political Economy (1848), Miss Prism warns the ward not to read Mill’s heavy chapter on ‘The Fall of the Indian Rupee’ as too exciting for a young woman. The US [...]

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 [...]

Atlas’s founder, Sir Antony Fisher, offered his impressions on government bank bail-outs back in 1984, his words feel quite prescient to the situation today:
“It is idiocy to re-negotiate loans to governments so they may continue making the same mistakes, or “bail out” banks so their shareholders never discover and correct bad banking procedures. But this [...]

It’s great that NCPA is hosting blogs like that of Bob McTeer, former president of the Dallas Federal Reserve. Here I’m linking to a recent blog post that is based on comments McTeer gave to a luncheon group at the end of July. It’s interesting to read his insights on today’s economy, and the factors [...]