Memo to Donald Trump: The Gold Standard Will Guarantee 4 Percent Growth
In calling for 4 percent growth, Donald Trump hit a home run. He has the right instincts. If he follows them he can turn this home run into a grand slam.…
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Ralph Benko
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Ralph Benko is a monetary policy advocate and an internationally syndicated columnist.
Fed Up! Hillary Clinton in Cahoots with Attempted “Hostile Takeover” of the Fed
I’m fed up with the Fed too, with its chronic policy failures. A lot of evidence shows the Federal Reserve to be a prime cause of lackluster job growth and…
The Best Hope for Restoring the American Dream Now Lives in the US Senate
Who will conjure the American Dream back for us? Politics is part prestidigitation, part reality. A great magician distracts her audience’s attention while producing the payoff. Abracadabra! Want to see how…
Everything I Know About Good Economic Policy I Learned From Mother Teresa
(Editor’s note: On the occasion of the canonization of Mother Teresa, we reprint a 2013 column from Ralph Benko, our senior advisor, economics, from Forbes.com about his 1979 personal encounter…
The Fed’s Surrealistic “Melting Clocks” Monetary Policy Is the American Dream Killer
“Houston, we’ve had a problem here.” With those low-key words, command module pilot Jack Swigert of Apollo 13 revealed that, in the later recollection of mission commander James A. Lovell, its…
How a Clinton Victory Would Powerfully Unite the Right
In a previous column I considered how the coalition that is the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy began to fray after losing the common enemy against which it had united: In…
How the Soviet Union’s Secret Weapon Ultimately Unhinged the GOP
The most enduring cliché of every presidential election is that it is the most important in history. The nominees proclaim this because, for them, this is certainly true. They also…
Would Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton Make the More Effective Executive?
French soldiers in Lalain France, in 1794, reported a Rain of Toads. The 2016 presidential race makes one nostalgic for such relative normality. Underneath the media’s current Rain of Toads…
The Melodramatic Criticisms Of Donald Trump And Hillary Clinton Are Overdone
The mainstream media is relentlessly smack talking Donald Trump for his smack talking. Most mainstream headlines on Trump can pretty much be boiled down to more or less harsh variations…
Trump Drop-Out Rumors: An Effort to Avoid the Twilight Zone?
Fed by a chaotic campaign week, there has been a lot of chatter about the possibility of Donald Trump shocking the world by dropping out of the presidential race. No…
After the Conventions, 1.2 Percent Growth Means Hillary Is In Trouble
The splendid national political conventions are over. These inevitably put one in mind of The Tempest: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all…
Bloomberg View Notices: Trump Loves Gold
Bloomberg View‘s Timothy L. O’Brien recently provided a colorful and insightful feature entitled “Donald Trump Loves Gold and Don’t You Forget It.” Therein O’Brien provides an opulently illustrated, lengthy litany…
From the GOP Convention: Ben Carson, Lucifer, Saul Alinsky, and Hillary Clinton
Saul Alinsky remains the man the right most perennially loves to hate. Somewhere in Heaven — or Hell — Alinsky’s surely enjoying a fine laugh. Dr. Ben Carson, in his…
The Wall Street Journal Takes Notice of the 2016 GOP Platform and the Gold Standard
Kate Davidson in The Wall Street Journal recently took note of a GOP 2016 plank that had been largely overlooked in all the focus on the social issues in the…
Picking Mike Pence Really Was a Grand Slam for Donald Trump
Mike Pence? Full disclosure: I served as head of the Super PAC seeking to draft Pence into the 2012 presidential race. Having long been persuaded of Pence’s superior leadership qualities,…
Independence Day 2016, The Death Spiral Of The Republic, “The Chaos Caused Trump”
The close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787: A lady [one Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia] asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy[?] —…
The Secret Communion of the Man in the Moon
I vividly remember watching the awesome drama of the first moonwalk on July 20, 1969. I was in a National Science Foundation summer archaeology project. The most modern and the…
Ben Carson, Hillary Clinton, Saul Alinsky, And Donald Trump
Townhall‘s Cortney O’Brien provides an interesting report on Dr. Ben Carson’s keynote address to the recent Faith and Freedom Coalition gala. It is headlined “Carson: We Need To Inform People About…
A Letter to the Left: The Gold Standard Will Restore Upward Mobility
About a year ago, Stan Sorscher, Labor Representative, Society for Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, published a frighteningly important blog at The Huffington Post (where I also blog on a regular…
Donald Trump, the Gold Standard, Maynard Keynes, and Our Madmen in Authority
. . . June 5th, is the anniversary of the birth of John Maynard Keynes, once upon a time the great foe of the gold standard. [It] also, coincidentally, happens…
