Perry Comments on Middle Class Wages
At the “Politics & Eggs” event in New Hampshire on March 12th, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry discussed wage stagnation: “The President may be satisfied with 2% economic growth. I’m…
Perry on Why Your Paycheck is Shrinking (VIDEO)
This morning at an event at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire, Rick Perry called for robust new growth to address rising prices: The President may be satisfied with 2…
Just Audit the Darn Thing
It has $4 trillion in holdings…close to one quarter of the U.S. GDP. The markets flip out anytime it even hints at making a move. It enabled the housing bubble…
Jindal’s Economic Message Still Needs Tweaking
Jon, as if to answer your question on his (apparent lack of an) economics platform, Gov. Bobby Jindal published an op-ed in USA Today on Sunday touting his economic record in…
Huckabee Breaks New Ground in Economic Debate
Shane, this is really important breaking news. Gov. Huckabee is moving the dial here in a striking new development: he’s one of the first candidates to connect the Fed’s monetary…
Huckabee Says Fix the Dollar (VIDEO)
Nick asked if former Governor Mike Huckabee understood the cure for wage stagnation. I had a chance to ask him what he would do as President to address wage stagnation…
Huckabee Addresses Wage Stagnation
Mike Huckabee addressed America’s key economic problem of a middle class squeezed by falling wage value. From the Washington Post: “I talked about [this economic message] eight years ago. I was…
More Americans Not Working
While most of the media is praising the February jobs report, highlighting 295,000 jobs added and a dip in the unemployment rate to 5.5 percent, it is clear that the…
Rubio Pitches a Flatter and Fairer Tax System
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Tuesday, Senators Marco Rubio (FL) and Mike Lee (UT) began a debate on tax-reform by questioning whether the current unemployed, underemployed, stagnant wage…
Saving Bobby Jindal
I love Bobby Jindal. I really do. He’s been one of my favorite Republican leaders for years. I wanted him to run for President in 2012, and I’m glad he…
Conservatives Talk Monetary Policy with Janet Yellen
Last Friday, a coalition of more than 20 conservatives and libertarians met with Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to discuss the impact of Fed monetary policy on middle income and…
Brookings Seeks Huge New Federal Reserve Power Grab
Progressives at Brookings are seeking to free up the federal government to become even more involved in mismanaging our money by declaring our current system “unconstitutional” and giving Washington even…
Kudlow: Greenspan Saying Gold is the Only Real Currency
Larry Kudlow mentions that Alan Greenspan is touting something like a gold standard: As for rules and the Fed, there are a bunch of proposals out there: There’s the inflation-fighting…
Janet Yellen Meets the Right
In my weekly Forbes.com column today, I described the presentations made at a meeting led by American Principles in Action with Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen and Governor Lael…
What Brian Domitrovic told Janet Yellen
Brian Domitrovic was one of 22 conservatives invited by American Principles in Action to meet with Janet Yellen last Friday. In his column yesterday for Forbes.com, Domitrovic reveals what he told the…
Price of Beef Doubles
The price of hamburger increased to a new record, $4.23 a pound, jumping 22 percent in the last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Official inflation remains low. …
Santorum: “Pro-Freedom, Pro-Family, Pro-Growth, and Also Pro-Worker”
Sen. Rick Santorum’s CPAC speech carved out a niche for himself as the Blue Collar Conservative, the champion of the ‘little guy.’ Santorum called on the GOP to be “pro-freedom,…
Rand Paul’s One-legged Stool
Rand Paul managed to give a speech without mention of Common Core, abortion, or gay marriage. This lacuna was most obvious when Paul attacked judicial activism, but the only case…
Scott Walker Takes up Cruz’s Challenge
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker came to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) loaded for…Ted Cruz. Speaking a few minutes after the Texas Senator, Governor Walker responded to Cruz’s riff about…
Monetary Policy Shrinking Middle Class
At a CPAC panel on Thursday, APP’s executive director Terry Schilling told GOP candidates to look to monetary policy to explain the average family’s shrinking paycheck: “The demand for digital…
