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Let’s Celebrate Next Labor Day by Putting More Money in Workers’ Wallets

Yesterday marked the passage of another Labor Day weekend where workers had to suffer from coercive union dues. As Richard Berman, executive director of the Center for Union Facts, noted…

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The Trump vs. Clinton Election Enters the Realm of Farce

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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George Gilder: All Forms of Money Must Be Based on Time (VIDEO)

George Gilder is most recently the author the ground breaking The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does. He is a founding fellow of the Discovery…

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What ‘JFK and the Reagan Revolution’ Reveals About Trump

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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George Gilder: Angry About Inequality? Here’s the Real Culprit… (VIDEO)

George Gilder is most recently the author the ground breaking The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does. He is a founding fellow of the Discovery…

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What’s Left? Trump Against Clinton Echoes Capitalism Against Communism

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

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?

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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George Gilder: Money Is a Measuring Stick, Not a Magic Wand (VIDEO)

George Gilder is most recently the author the ground breaking The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does. He is a founding fellow of the Discovery…

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George Gilder: This Simple Theory Explains the Success of Capitalism (VIDEO)

George Gilder is most recently the author the ground breaking The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does. He is a founding fellow of the Discovery…

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Donald Trump, the Politicized Fed, and the Golden Rule

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

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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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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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…

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Hillary Clinton Elevates the Federal Reserve to God-Status

On Monday, Donald Trump stated what is essentially a fact to anyone who follows financial markets — the Federal Reserve has created a “false economy” that has artificially inflated the stock…

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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…

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The Fed Needs Adult Supervision. Time to Pass This Bill.

After meeting with progressive lobbyists at the Federal Reserve’s annual Jackson Hole retreat, Fed policymakers declared on Friday that the Fed needed new “tools” to manage the economy, including the…

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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…

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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…

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What to Expect From Trump’s Major Economic Speech

There is a lot of speculation about what Donald Trump will propose in his economic speech today in Detroit. But what makes Trump’s speech unique? What separates Trump’s proposals from…

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