Over at Forbes.com, Brian Domitrovic provides a solid rundown of last week’s Jackson Hole Summit, hosted by the American Principles Project. Domitrovic argues that while the Fed’s concurrent conference remained mired in discussions of irrelevancies, APP’s summit featured true innovators whose ideas
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, pro-family, pro-growth, and also pro-worker.” He gets an A-plus from me as
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 he mentioned was Chief Justice Robert’s opinion that the government can force
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 picking a candidate “who stood up and fought” by declaring, “[voters] don’t
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 currency like Bitcoin is a symptom of a larger problem—failed monetary policy,”
Speaking at CPAC, Ted Cruz invoked Ronald Reagan’s admonition to paint not in pale pastels but in bold colors – and bold he was. Cruz seemingly came to CPAC with two objectives: to establish himself as the most conservative of potential presidential
Kudos to Danny Vinik, with his shiny 2013 degree in economics and public policy from Duke University, for wanting to push Janet Yellen to address what he calls the GOP’s “implicit” support of a gold standard in its party platform. The last of
The political firepower generated by Sen. Rand Paul’s Audit the Fed bill is now giving new attention to an alternative or potentially complimentary political response: to shift power from the New York Federal Reserve Bank to other regional Federal Reserve Banks. The
Larry Kudlow reports on the dinner at which Giuliani made news by dissing President Obama’s love for America. His new Committee to Unleash American Prosperity wants us to return to the first principles of economic growth: It was the second event sponsored by the
