CATO’S 32ND ANNUAL MONETARY CONFERENCE will bring together leading scholars and advocates for fundamental monetary reform to discuss:

The bitcoin revolution and future of crypto-currencies

How technology will drive further innovations so that private currencies become a reality

The role of gold in a decentralized monetary regime

The steps necessary to return to constitutional money based on the convertibility principle and free banking

When the Federal Reserve was created in 1913, its powers were limited and the United States was still on the gold standard. Today the Fed has virtually unlimited power and the dollar has no backing. Limited, constitutional government requires a rules based, free-market monetary system with a stable-valued dollar, not the topsy-turvy fiat dollar that now exists under central banking. This conference will examine the case for sound money and the reforms needed to realize it

Please join our distinguished speakers on Thursday, November 6 to discuss these and related issues.

Featured Speakers

James Grant

Founder and Editor, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer

Founder and Editor, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer Axel Leijonhufvud

Professor of Economics (Emeritus), UCLA

Professor of Economics (Emeritus), UCLA Patrick Byrne

CEO and Chairman, Overstock.com

CEO and Chairman, Overstock.com Jerry L. Jordan

Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Judy Shelton

Co-Director, Sound Money Project, Atlas Network

Co-Director, Sound Money Project, Atlas Network John Allison

President and CEO, Cato Institute, and retired Chairman and CEO, BB&T

Conference Schedule