Ted Cruz: The GOP’s Sound Money Candidate
This column from The Daily Caller last week is a great defense of Ted Cruz on the gold standard: Mr. Cruz has been excoriated for seemingly incompatible statements concerning the U.S. central…
The Government Can’t Print Its Way to Economic Growth
Trump baffles conservative elites: how with such a talented field of candidates we could we end up with an isolationist, big-government, trade-war nominee? But give the American people this much…
Paul Krugman Attacks Ted Cruz and Paul Ryan on Gold
Paul Krugman, from his New York Times perch on March 25 writing “Crazy About Money,” lets himself go nuts recycling his standard arguments against the gold standard. He throws some…
“The Scandal of Money” Interview
My book, The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers But the Economy Never Does, launches today: The Fed creates money for the government and for the Fortune 500 corporations…
Memo to Candidates: Workers Are Getting Screwed by the Economy
Bloomberg published a piece which purports to be about how the Federal Reserve policies (by driving up the value of existing assets) is favoring senior citizens. That’s only compared to…
The Washington Post Defames Cruz’s Strong Prosperity Formula
The Washington Post Wonkblog‘s Neo-Keynesian Matt O’Brien — who, aptly enough, tweets as @ObsoleteDogma — pauses to attack Neo-(Classical)-Liberal Ted Cruz in “Does Ted Cruz think his tax plan would cause…
Trump’s Secret to Success: He Talks About the Economy
The reason Donald Trump is winning is not because he is not politically correct, he always speaks his mind, or because he is an anti-establishment political outsider who never held…
Ted Cruz Gets the Prosperity Formula Right Again
Jeet Heer, of the New (and For Sale) Republic, recently presented an oddly off kilter piece entitled “Ted Cruz mangled the history of the Great Depression.” Therein he writes: Fielding a question…
Federal Reserve Official Donates to Clinton Campaign
According to Federal Election Commission filings, Lael Brainard, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, contributed $750 to Hillary Clinton’s campaign earlier this cycle. Bloomberg Politics reports: While Fed officials…
Here Is the Yuuuge Story the Mainstream Media Totally Missed on Last Week’s Debate
The Main Stream Media, addicted to drama, fixated its echo chamber on the personal insults hurled between Donald Trump and Marco Rubio after the Great Debate. Too bad. Something really…
Revealed! Donald Trump Promises Policies to Bring About the Greatest! Depression! Ever!
CNN recently reported on GOP presidential front runner Donald Trump’s stance(s) about the Fed: [J]ust two days ago, Trump tweeted that he thinks the Fed should be audited. This is…
Onward to a Golden Age: The Washington Post’s Matt O’Brien Attacks Ted Cruz for Supporting the Gold Standard
Matt O’Brien — the anti-gold standard columnist of The Washington Post — at last has struck back at Ted Cruz for his advocacy for a “rules-based monetary supply, ideally tied…
Trump Says Audit the Fed
It’s only a tweet, and it’s also an excuse to bash Ted Cruz, but for the first time, the GOP front runner Donald Trump has signaled he is jumping on…
Challenging the Fed’s “Inflated Reputation”
Last week at The American Spectator, Bob Luddy aimed some harsh criticism at the Federal Reserve, blaming the Fed’s policy of keeping interest rates artificially low with causing a decline in the…
Cruz, Rubio, Bush: Why the Missing Prosperity Crusade?
It’s a mystery worthy of Sherlock Holmes. Most of the Republican presidential aspirants, mysteriously, are not focusing on the issue that all of the polling shows at the top of…
Here’s Exactly Why Trump Is Thriving — And What the GOP Should Do About It
In all the huge headlines of recent days, an event took place in Indianapolis that went largely unnoticed here in Washington, D.C., and in many other places. But it was…
South Carolina’s “Golden” Legacy
The Federal Reserve, and its management of its one-and-only product, Federal Reserve Notes (a.k.a. money), has turned into a really significant issue in the 2016 presidential race. The GOP South Carolina…
Trump and Sanders Winning the Economic Debate — and Election — by Default
Most conservatives believe Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have wrong solutions to the stagnation in wages and job creation that has marked the American economy since 2000. But Trump and…
The Six Trillion Dollar Solution for Speaker Paul Ryan in the Lion’s Den
A great stage magician will distract his audience with his right hand while performing his conjuring tricks with his left. Washington is nothing if not a magic show. Let me…
Ted Cruz’s Support for the Gold Standard Has Excellent Support Among Respected Economists
Ted Cruz is campaigning on the gold standard. He is smart to do so. In Forbes.com, commentator Nathan Lewis notes that notwithstanding the claim that there is an elite academic…
