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When: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 6:30pm
Where: The auditorium at The Harry C. Moore Library, College of The Bahamas Map
Presented by: The Nassau Institute and Templeton Religion Trust in collaboration with The Banking, Economics and Finance Department and The Economics Society of The College of The Bahamas
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Donor – Bahamas First
Joseph Salerno, Ph.,D. – Money and the State – Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Theme of speech:
Dr. Salerno will briefly describe the era of sound money that existed under the gold standard during the 19th century and up to the onset of the First World War. He will then discuss how government and central bank policies destroyed the gold standard and ushered in the era of pure fiat currencies and permanent inflation after the collapse of Bretton Woods in 1971. He will show how the logic of central banks and fiat money led inevitably to the housing bubble, the financial crisis, and the Great Recession, and how quantitative easing and other inflationary "unconventional" monetary policies are now setting the stage for a recurrence of monetary and financial chaos, and possibly even hyperinflation.
Bio:
Joseph T. Salerno received his Ph.D. in economics from Rutgers University. He is a professor of economics in the Finance and Graduate Economics Department in the Lubin School of Business of Pace University in New York. He is the editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and the Academic Vice President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Dr. Salerno has published over 50 articles and essays in refereed journals and scholarly books. His latest book is The Fed at One Hundred: A Critical View on the Federal Reserve System, co-edited with David Howden (Springer 2014). He is also the author of Money: Sound and Unsound (2010). He has testified before Congress and published numerous op eds online at mises.org, forbes.com, Christian Science Monitor.com, Wall Street Oasis.com, and Economic Policy Journal.com.
