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Cato CMFA

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Cato CMFA

@CatoCMFA

@CatoInstitute’s Center for Monetary & Financial Alternatives is a think tank project dedicated to finding alternatives to failed monetary and financial regimes

Washington, D.C.

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Joined April 2015

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Cato CMFA
@CatoCMFA
Aug 15, 2018
The @CatoInstitute Summit on Financial Regulation in San Francisco will feature Gerry Tsai of the @sffed, @CremeDeLaCrypto of Blockchain Capital, @RyanZagone of Ripple, @balajis of Coinbase, and more. Sign up and tell a friend before its too late! buff.ly/2uZdeU7
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Oct 15, 2023
The United States should not launch a CBDC. No government should have the kind of power that a CBDC provides. buff.ly/46f7apV #CatoEcon
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May 27, 2021
In this letter to the @federalreserve, @GeorgeSelgin explains why it's time to open the doors for #fintech services: buff.ly/3oZOPsb #CatoEcon
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Oct 29, 2020
What should policymakers know about the gold standard? James Dorn highlights @GeorgeSelgin's "10 Essential Points" in the Fall 2020 Cato Journal: buff.ly/32vHQ0r
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May 20, 2021
"Finally, there is no evidence that cryptocurrencies have environmental externalities beyond those that can be ascribed ... wherever electricity is inefficiently priced. But public policy, not cryptocurrency innovation, is at fault there." - @FintechDiego buff.ly/2wGnGzL
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Feb 3, 2017
The fact is that #DoddFrank has not made our financial system safer. buff.ly/2k3Ieup
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May 28, 2024
Who Said It—a Natcon or a Socialist? "As productivity growth has slowed, the economy has become more financialized, which means that resources are increasingly channeled into means of extracting wealth from the productive economy instead of producing goods and services."
Socialist32.5%
Natcon67.5%
366 votesFinal results
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May 1, 2018
Billions of dollars in marijuana-related profits are handled almost exclusively in cash. Join us at the @CatoInstitute on May 10 for a screening of @FedSoc's award-winning short documentary on the topic, followed by a roundtable discussion. Register here: buff.ly/2Koda6k
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Dec 14, 2022
No American should be forced to report their private, financial transactions to the government if the government is unable to provide a warrant. buff.ly/3Yqrqld
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Jun 11, 2024
Who Said It—a Natcon or a Socialist? “The damage from overdevelopment of the financial sector is two-fold, both depriving the real economy of much needed enterprise-building talent and then using that talent instead to manipulate and cannibalize what enterprises are built.”
Socialist33.7%
Natcon66.3%
163 votesFinal results
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Jun 6, 2024
Who Said It—a Natcon or a Socialist? "[T]he increase of speculative instruments, out of all proportion to the underlying “real economy,” constituted the essence of the financialization process taking place in these years.”
Socialist41.5%
Natcon58.5%
123 votesFinal results
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Jan 16, 2018
The @StLouisFed released a primer on Bitcoin and blockchain technology. "Bitcoin is not the only currency that has no intrinsic value. State monopoly currencies, such as the U.S. dollar, the euro, and the Swiss franc, have no intrinsic value either." buff.ly/2DjQaom
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May 30, 2024
Who Said It—a Natcon or a Socialist? “The absentee factory-owners and money-juggling financiers divorced from the productive process are not straw men. They retain ultimate power.”
Socialist56.1%
Natcon43.9%
198 votesFinal results
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Jun 14, 2024
Who Said It—a Natcon or a Socialist? “When firms do use this money … it is frequently to pay dividends to stockholders, buy up other companies, or else to buy company stock in the hope of driving share prices up: a pure speculative endeavor.”
Socialist50.3%
Natcon49.7%
167 votesFinal results
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