An opinion that the regulatory structure of the financial industry must change to meet the needs of the next century by dismantling traditional partitions that have separated firms, rethinking functional regulation policies, and squarely facing the problem of moral hazard created by the federal...

This essay challenges the conventional wisdom about money and monetary policy. The role of money in fostering prosperity is a function of the quality, as well as the quantity, of money. Inflation always harms the performance of an economy. Deflations caused by productivity and innovation can be...