Steve Hanke on currency boards and pegs
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Steve H. Hanke is Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and a proponent of currency boards as a way to reign in irresponsible sovereigns. He is responsible for designing and implementing currency boards in Estonia (1992), Lithuania (1994), Bulgaria (1997), and Bosnia and Herzegovina (1997).
Shamindra Kulamannage interviewed him for Echelon.
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