Ralph Benko – The National Pulse https://thenationalpulse.com Real News and Investigations. Mon, 17 Apr 2017 15:56:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8 https://thenationalpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-TNP_Favicon-32x32.jpeg Ralph Benko – The National Pulse https://thenationalpulse.com 32 32 President Trump’s Feuding Advisors Need a New Focus: Economic Growth https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/high-economic-growth-recipe-making-america-great-again/ Mon, 17 Apr 2017 15:56:28 +0000 https://thenationalpulse.com/?p=18300 In my most recent column in Forbes.com, I said the infighting in the West Wing was an inevitable outcome of the long economic stagnation that President Trump inherited. The solution…

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]]> Greenspan’s Big Reveal: The Secret Recipe for Economic Growth https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/alan-greenspan-big-reveal-secret-recipe/ Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:30:27 +0000 https://thenationalpulse.com/?p=18114 Former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan praises the gold standard in the February 2017 issue of The World Gold Council’s Gold Investor. Therein he makes what may be his strongest statements…

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]]> Huffington Post Predicts Trump Will Call for Gold Standard https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/huffington-post-predicts-trump-gold-standard/ Fri, 17 Feb 2017 19:21:26 +0000 https://thenationalpulse.com/?p=17808 Recently, two of The Huffington Post’s political reporters, Eliot Nelson and Jeffrey Young (who have managed to fuse ridicule and journalism into something functionally indistinguishable from “Alternative Facts”) recently made…

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]]> Paul Krugman: “The Trump Economic Team Is Shaping up as a Gathering of Gold Bugs” https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/paul-krugman-the-trump-economic-team-is-shaping-up-as-a-gathering-of-gold-bugs/ Thu, 22 Dec 2016 15:40:29 +0000 https://thepulse2016.com/?p=17464 Paul Krugman tweets: Are people noticing that the Trump economic team is shaping up as a gathering of gold bugs? 1/ — Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) December 20, 2016 That tweet is…

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]]> Trump White House Strategist Steve Bannon, Judeo-Christian Champion: “This Is a Revolution” https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/trump-white-house-strategist-steve-bannon-judeo-christian-champion-this-is-a-revolution/ Tue, 20 Dec 2016 15:51:41 +0000 https://thepulse2016.com/?p=17460 The progressive elites and the mainstream media expended massive black ink, hot air, and billions of scarce pixels defaming Trump campaign CEO, now White House strategist, Steve Bannon. A fascinating…

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]]> The Real Steve Bannon Revealed! https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/the-real-steve-bannon-revealed/ Mon, 21 Nov 2016 16:50:52 +0000 https://thepulse2016.com/?p=17442 A marvelous interview with Donald Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon has suddenly appeared in, no less, The Hollywood Reporter: “Ringside With Steve Bannon at Trump Tower as the President-Elect’s Strategist…

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]]> High Stakes for 2016: Judy Shelton for Fed Chair to Make America Great Again https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/high-stakes-for-2016-judy-shelton-for-fed-chair-to-make-america-great-again/ Fri, 04 Nov 2016 19:02:57 +0000 https://thepulse2016.com/?p=17352 In The Daily Caller, freelance writer Johannes Schmidt writes “On November 8th I’m Voting For Our Next Fed Chair.” It’s an especially astute column. While many commentators correctly have focused…

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]]> Good Monetary Policy Is Too Serious a Matter to Be Left to the Fed https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/good-monetary-policy-is-too-serious-a-matter-to-be-left-to-the-fed/ Wed, 02 Nov 2016 19:36:54 +0000 https://thepulse2016.com/?p=17326 US News and World Report‘s Andrew Soergel reports that “With White House in Sight, Trump, Clinton Plan Fed Renovations: No matter who wins the election, times are likely changing at…

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]]> Happy Halloween! Trump, Clinton, and an Endless Series of Hobgoblins https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/happy-halloween-trump-clinton-and-an-endless-series-of-hobgoblins/ Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:11:09 +0000 https://thepulse2016.com/?p=17296 This election cycle has provided much demonizing of the major party candidates. Much anxiety stalks the land, or at least the mainstream media. Some of this anxiety is fixating on…

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]]> Will President Trump or Clinton Evade What Sunk the Ford, Carter, Bush and Obama Economy? https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/will-president-trump-or-clinton-evade-what-sunk-the-ford-carter-bush-and-obama-economy/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:22:59 +0000 https://thepulse2016.com/?p=17235 Whoever wins the presidency there is a lurking issue, the most underappreciated issue in politics.  Getting it wrong destroyed the economy (and contributed to ending the presidencies) of Ford and…

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]]> Memo to President Trump or President Clinton: The Gold Standard Made America Both Good and Great https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/memo-to-president-trump-or-president-clinton-the-gold-standard-made-america-both-good-and-great/ Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:46:34 +0000 https://thepulse2016.com/?p=17198 Marc Levinson writing recently in The Wall Street Journal provides a very pessimistic view for the American Dream, “Why the Economy Doesn’t Roar Anymore: The long boom after World War…

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]]> To Trump and Clinton: Heed the Lesson Jimmy Carter Never Learned https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/to-trump-and-clinton-heed-the-lesson-jimmy-carter-never-learned/ Tue, 18 Oct 2016 16:01:00 +0000 https://thepulse2016.com/?p=17179 Yesterday I observed here how the 2016 race reflects American conditions in the late 1970s — also stagnant — and how the political elites are echoing President Jimmy Carter’s feckless…

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]]> The Trump vs. Clinton Election Enters the Realm of Farce https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/the-trump-vs-clinton-election-enters-the-realm-of-farce/ Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:59:26 +0000 https://thepulse2016.com/?p=17166 The 2016 presidential campaign confirms what Marx wrote: “all the events and personalities of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice… the first time as tragedy, the…

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]]> Memo to Trump and Clinton: Use Tough Love to Win the Millennials https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/memo-to-trump-and-clinton-use-tough-love-to-win-the-millennials/ Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:31:17 +0000 https://thepulse2016.com/?p=17134 The Millennial Vote is being treated like a Magical Unicorn in the 2016 election. It is seen as something valuable and mysterious. As Dan Schwabel, at Quartz, in a piece…

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]]> What ‘JFK and the Reagan Revolution’ Reveals About Trump https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/what-jfk-and-the-reagan-revolution-reveals-about-trump/ Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:09:03 +0000 https://thepulse2016.com/?p=17047 Remember prosperity? Want it back? Here’s the secret formula, which has always worked and would work again: Cut marginal tax rates and restore integrity to the dollar. Donald Trump is…

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]]> What’s Left? Trump Against Clinton Echoes Capitalism Against Communism https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/whats-left-trump-against-clinton-echoes-capitalism-against-communism/ Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:37:23 +0000 https://thepulse2016.com/?p=17023 Hillary Clinton is not a communist. That said, she is certainly running to the left. What’s left? That’s actually an interesting question. People throw around the terms “left” and “right”…

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]]> Trump’s Knockout Punch Opportunity https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/trumps-knockout-punch-opportunity/ Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:48:26 +0000 https://thepulse2016.com/?p=17010 In the first of the three presidential debates, only Trump’s handlers scored his performance as better than a draw. Both candidates jabbed and scored some points against the other. Pity…

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]]> The Gold Standard: Copernicus, Newton, Priestley… and Trump? https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/the-gold-standard-copernicus-newton-priestley-and-trump/ Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:55:15 +0000 https://thepulse2016.com/?p=16993 Sam Kriss, in The Atlantic, has a wonderful new story, “Flat-Earthers Have A Wild New Theory About Forests,” in which I find an oblique allusion to… myself. Still, among all the…

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]]> Donald Trump, the Politicized Fed, and the Golden Rule https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/donald-trump-the-politicized-fed-and-the-golden-rule/ Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:53:02 +0000 https://thepulse2016.com/?p=16948 Left-leaning thought leaders have been unfairly scalding Donald Trump for his recent observations that the Federal Reserve is politicized. Therein an inconsistency, verging over into naked hypocrisy, by the left…

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]]> Clinton’s Campaign of Firepower Is Losing the 2016 Election Against Trump’s Guerrilla Tactics https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/clintons-campaign-of-firepower-is-losing-the-2016-election-against-trumps-guerrilla-tactics/ Mon, 19 Sep 2016 14:51:02 +0000 https://thepulse2016.com/?p=16931 Much to the incredulity of the elite political class, Donald Trump is rapidly closing the gap and even surpassing Hillary Clinton. This extends to the critical electoral college swing states.…

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