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		<title>Addressing Mortgage Malinvestment (Part II)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Skeel of Penn Law School has a good piece in today’s Wall Street Journal and Todd Zywicki of George Mason Law School in this week’s Forbes as both have good reviews of the recent well-publicized mortgage settlement. David points out that (picky-picky) there does not seem to be much of a connection between the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebanking.org/2012/02/21/addressing-mortgage-malinvestment-part-ii/</link>
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		<title>L-Street: The Movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those who prefer a brief summary, or just like watching stuff on their computer, here is the video of my November Cato Monetary Conference presentation.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebanking.org/2012/02/18/l-street-the-movie/</link>
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		<title>Yet Another (Unconvincing) Argument Against Gold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that various pro-gold utterances in the course of the Republican primaries have provoked critics of the gold standard to circle their wagons and start shooting. But while the sheer volume of shots fired has been impressive, the shooters' aim has been lousy. That goes for this recent volley from EconBrowser's James Hamilton, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebanking.org/2012/02/16/yet-more-unconvincing-arguments-against-gold/</link>
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		<title>More on the gold standard, with regret</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I regret taxing readers’ patience with another post on the gold standard. As I and other bloggers here have made clear, a free banking system need not be a gold standard system. If people want the standard to be gold, that’s what free banks will offer to attract their business. But if people want the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebanking.org/2012/02/11/more-on-the-gold-standard-with-regret/</link>
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		<title>The Other Bagehot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Free bankers like to claim Walter Bagehot, the British essayist and former (and most famous) editor-in-chief of The Economist, as one of their own. And they well ought to, for there can be no disputing the fact that Lombard Street, Bagehot's celebrated "description of the [London] money market," treats the concentration of cash reserves in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebanking.org/2012/02/09/the-other-bagehot/</link>
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		<title>Quasi-Commodity Money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I know: it's been so long since I posted here that you'd have a right to wonder whether I decided to quit economics and enter a monastery, or had simply dropped dead. In fact I've done neither, though I've had reason enough to be tempted by each of those alternative prospects. You see, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebanking.org/2012/02/07/quasi-commodity-money/</link>
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		<title>Free Banking in Brazil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm currently in Brazil at a summer seminar for young Brazilians interested in libertarian ideas sponsored by the Atlas Foundation and OrdemLivre.org in the beautiful mountain town of Petropolis outside of Rio.  On Thursday, I participated in a debate at the equivalent of the Chamber of Commerce in Sao Paulo celebrating the Mises-Brazil Portuguese translation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebanking.org/2012/02/04/free-banking-in-brazil/</link>
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		<title>Addressing Mortgage Malinvestment in the Financial Sector</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Notwithstanding a great deal of tough language in September 2008 from our government about how Fannie and Freddie were a disastrous case study in government failure, not much has been done to get rid of the mortgage twins.  Here is part of a piece I had in the Hill blog this week about how to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebanking.org/2012/02/04/addressing-mortgage-malinvestment-in-the-financial-sector/</link>
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		<title>Volatility in the news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Larry Summers had op-eds in the Financial Times and the Washington Post this week with essentially the same message. (Well played, Larry: apparently the Post’s editors do not read the Financial Times. It would not hurt them to start.) In both, he used the line, “Government has no higher responsibility than ensuring that economies have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebanking.org/2012/01/26/volatility-in-the-news/</link>
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		<title>Financial Stability: FSOC, Continued Secrecy, Fannie and Freddie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I address this range of issues in an editorial this week published in the Washington Times.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freebanking.org/2012/01/22/financial-stability-fsoc-continued-secrecy-fannie-and-freddie/</link>
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