In S.C. Showdown with Trump, Cruz Needs a Winning Economic Message
So South Carolina is where the titans clash: where Donald Trump (clearly) is going to try to knock Ted Cruz out of the race, and where Cruz urgently needs to…
Ted Cruz in New Hampshire and an America Where the Streets Are Paved with Gold
The Washington Post reports that Ted Cruz is making the case for high quality money and the gold standard in New Hampshire. Cruz: “One of the problems is the volatility…
Which Presidential Aspirant(s) Would Make America (And You!) Prosper?
As I recently wrote in my Forbes.com column, “Presidential elections are about, above all, just two things: our security and our prosperity.” The GOP candidates have been emphatic about our…
The Bernie Sanders Philosophy: An Equal Share Of Misery
Finally America gets to hear from real voters instead of us knuckle headed pundits. One hopes that those Hawkeyes are paying attention to what the Tax Foundation, the umpire of…
Ted Cruz: Angel of Light?
One Robert Davis recently published, at The Hill, a blog headlined “Cruz: Prince of Darkness.” It is clear both from the headline and the content that Mr. Davis, a retired…
Cruz Is Smart to Campaign on the Gold Standard
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has propelled the gold standard out of long political hibernation and into the 2016 presidential campaign. Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Mike…
Want a 10 Percent Pay Cut? Support Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders’ Tax Plan
Want a 10 percent pay cut? Well, you could ask your boss to cut your pay. If you’d rather not ask your boss, you have another option, reports the Tax…
Trump Flinches From the Final Pre-Iowa Debate
The mainstream media, as exemplified by the The Washington Post, is reporting that “Trump says he won’t participate in GOP debate on Fox News.” The charismatic Donald Trump has a…
Why Ted Cruz Really Is Losing Out To Donald Trump
Presidential elections are about, above all, just two things: our security and our prosperity. Promises of prosperity have all but faded into the background… except by Donald Trump. In the…
Ted Cruz Proves Prescient: The Dow’s Plummet Calls for the Gold Standard
The world’s stock markets continue to plunge. Why? And what are the political implications? As I wrote last year in Forbes.com (reprinted as far and wide as Pravda): The Wall…
Why the Federal Reserve Never Stood a Chance
This piece was co-authored by Max Rangeley, an editor at The Cobden Centre. For the most part, tax, regulatory, fiscal, and labor policies differentiate from country to country. This makes it…
Rand Paul Attacks Ted Cruz in Unusual New Video
The Rand Paul Campaign continued to hammer Sen. Ted Cruz for his absence on the Audit the Fed vote, this time in the form of a strange web video. The…
Cruz Stands by Commitment to Audit the Fed
Sen. Ted Cruz reaffirmed his commitment to auditing the Federal Reserve in an email statement to radio host Glenn Beck late Tuesday night, despite not showing up for the vote…
Why Is Ted Cruz Only the “Third Most Conservative Man in the World”?
Ted Cruz is leading — or at least neck-and-neck — with Donald Trump in Iowa. One of the reasons for Cruz’s rise in the polls is that Ted Cruz, clearly,…
Ron Paul Questions Cruz’s Absence on Audit the Fed Vote
The Senate failed to pass a measure Tuesday that would have provided for the consideration of legislation to audit the Federal Reserve. Falling seven votes short of the necessary 60,…
Newsweek Calls the Fed a “Marquee Issue” in the Presidential Race
Newsweek offers this startling headline: “Paul, Sanders Join Forces Against Federal Reserve.” Given Sanders’s surge in the polls as a serious rival to Hillary Clinton, it is very notable that…
Sanders Joins Rand Paul in Voting Yes on Audit the Fed
In a sign of how potentially potent the issue of the Federal Reserve and monetary policy still is, the insurgent leader of the Democrats in Iowa and New Hampshire, Bernie…
Sen. Paul’s Audit the Fed Bill Will Be Voted on Today. Paul’s Indictment of the Fed in Time Is Strong
Now in Time Magazine, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul yesterday boldly states, in an op-ed, that “The Fed Is Crippling America.” Sen. Paul writes: On Jan. 12, Congress is scheduled to vote…
Donald Trump, Political Parasite Exterminator?
Many commentators, including me, together have spilled billions of pixels attempting to explain the riddle of Donald Trump’s uncanny appeal. There may be one simple, striking, explanation. It is implied…
Hey Ted Cruz, Join Me in Wishing Sir Isaac Newton, Father of the Gold Standard, Happy Birthday! Tweet on!
This week we celebrate the birthday of a genius, the founder of modern physics, Sir Isaac Newton. Few people recognize that Newton also was the father of the gold standard…
