Alexander Salter

Alexander William Salter is an economics professor in the business school at Texas Tech University, a research fellow with TTU’s Free Market Institute, and a research fellow with the Independent Institute.

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  • Mar 24, 2025
    While the Fed’s core duties remain off-limits to Trump’s regulatory overhaul, the administration clearly wants to subordinate the central bank to its politi ...
  • Jan 29, 2025
    Central banks should be apolitical, not unaccountable. Monetary technocrats should serve the People.
  • Jan 27, 2025
    When the President and Congress blow out the budget, the difference is borrowed from future (imagined) surpluses. That depreciates the dollar.