Don’t Look Now, But Monetary Policy Just Became a Top Issue in the GOP Primary

It’s greatly encouraging to see the GOP candidates focus more on one of the largest economic problems facing the United States: the Federal Reserve and monetary policy. On Tuesday night, we witnessed the GOP field address monetary reform as a key to economic fairness and growth in a bigger and more substantial way than ever before. Candidates centered their comments on the problems created by the Federal Reserve’s artificially low interest rates and how it has adversely affected equitable prosperity through rising prices and stagnant wages for working families. The Federal Reserve’s zero interest rate policy repeatedly came under fire at

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It’s Time to End the Fed’s Money Monopoly

History suggests that the only way to rein in the sprawling Federal Reserve is to end its money monopoly and restore the American people’s ability to use gold as a competing currency. The legislative compromise that created the Fed in 1913 recognized that the power to print money, left unchecked, could corrupt both the government and the economy. Accordingly, the Federal Reserve Act created the Federal Reserve System without a centralized balance sheet, a central monetary-policy committee or even a central office. The Fed’s regional banks were prohibited from buying government debt and required to maintain a 40% gold reserve

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How to Unite the Party: Fight the Fed!

The following is adapted from APP Chairman Sean Fieler’s remarks at the American Principles Project’s Practical Federalism Forum in Hooksett, N.H., on Oct. 3. We Americans are in an anti-establishment mood.  We’ve been lied to. We know it and we are determined to put an end to it.  We want elected officials who will tell us the truth. Now, Democrats interested in the truth.  And there are some, God bless their souls, that have a solution to the lie. That solution is Bernie Sanders and his message of hope. The socialist dream is just 18 trillion dollars of spending, and we

On Common Core, Bobby Jindal Leads

The following is adapted from APP Chairman Sean Fieler’s introduction of Gov. Bobby Jindal at the American Principles Project gala on Feb. 5 in Washington D.C. To the parents from all over the country, from Maryland, New York, Ohio, Louisiana and Indiana that have joined us here today:  you are the reason that we are winning.  And, not just winning, but winning on principle. And not just any principle, but the principle of human dignity. For we understand what America’s founders so clearly understood: that we are endowed with rights and dignity not from the state but from our Creator.  If