Given the wide swings in the exchange value of the Canadian dollar over the past decade, some would like to see a return to a fixed exchange rate system in North America. In reviewing the debate between supporters of pegged versus floating rates, there is little analysis found of the...

As creators of credit money, commercial banks prevent the nonfinancial private sector from being constrained by its prior savings in accordance with the theory of the monetary circuit. Commercial banking provides the means for a private economy to break away from its financial constraint....