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Nomination of Ted Cruz Likely Would Reassure Investors

  • April 11, 2016
  • Ralph Benko
Barron’s compiled daily client memos from Greg Valliere, a Washington-based strategist with Horizon Investments, under the headline “Will Trump and Cruz’s Fed Feud Rattle Markets?” Subhed: “The two leading GOP…
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Trump Says Audit the Fed

  • February 23, 2016
  • Maggie Gallagher
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…
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Rand Paul Attacks Ted Cruz in Unusual New Video

  • January 19, 2016
  • Stephen Brown
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…
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Cruz Stands by Commitment to Audit the Fed

  • January 15, 2016
  • Stephen Brown
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…
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Ron Paul Questions Cruz’s Absence on Audit the Fed Vote

  • January 14, 2016
  • Stephen Brown
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,…
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Newsweek Calls the Fed a “Marquee Issue” in the Presidential Race

  • January 14, 2016
  • Ralph Benko
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…
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Sanders Joins Rand Paul in Voting Yes on Audit the Fed

  • January 13, 2016
  • Paul Dupont
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…
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Sen. Paul’s Audit the Fed Bill Will Be Voted on Today. Paul’s Indictment of the Fed in Time Is Strong

  • January 12, 2016
  • Ralph Benko
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…
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Cruz Joins Rand in Support of ‘Audit the Fed’ Bill

  • November 13, 2015
  • Anna Anderson
A bill subjecting the Federal Reserve to a more thorough audit process has finally hit the Senate floor—and Rand Paul and Ted Cruz have jumped all over it. The Federal…
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Federal Reserve Doesn’t Like Paul’s “Audit the Fed” Bill

  • November 6, 2015
  • Nick Arnold
In a shocking twist Wednesday night, Federal Reserve Vice-Chair Stanley Fischer decided that the Fed really shouldn’t be audited by Congress. Strangely, Fischer made his impassioned plea for the political…
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Christie Slams Fed for Zero Interest Rates, Calls for Audit

  • November 3, 2015
  • Nick Arnold
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie sat down with Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo this week, where he condemned U.S. monetary policy under the Obama administration.  Christie said the Federal Reserve’s zero…
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Ted Cruz Hits a Grand Slam: The Dollar Should Be “Ideally Tied to Gold”

  • October 28, 2015
  • Ralph Benko
Financial reporter Rick Santelli — who triggered the Tea Party movement — put a profound question to Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul in the CNBC presidential economic debate. Santelli’s…
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“It’s The Economy, Stupid!” Time For CNBC To Grill Candidates On Monetary, Tax, Trade Policy

  • October 27, 2015
  • Ralph Benko
At last, we mere voters might get to watch a debate that will focus on the two top issues that virtually every poll places at the top of our concerns:…
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Bernanke Blasts Rand Paul Back

  • October 22, 2015
  • Maggie Gallagher
The Fed is touchy these days.  No wonder, with economic growth lagging and the tools of monetary policy failing to do what the Fed probably can’t do: spur economic growth.…
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High Praise for Rand Paul’s Challenge of Ben Bernanke to Debate

  • October 21, 2015
  • Ralph Benko
The Libertarian Republic has this to say about Senator and presidential candidate Rand Paul’s recent challenge of Ben Bernanke to debate: Ben Bernanke, who recently called Senator Rand Paul and…
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Looking for Growth in All the Wrong Places

  • August 5, 2015
  • Nick Arnold
We’ve officially moved into the part of the campaign where candidates tell us their grand vision for America.  Donald Trump, moving on his promise to “make America great again,” challenged…
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Audit the Fed is Not Enough

  • March 26, 2015
  • Jeff Bell
There’s a lot to admire in Alex Pollock’s Saturday piece in The Wall Street Journal, “It’s High Time to ‘Audit’ the Fed.”  Pollock, a longtime chief executive of the Federal…
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Just Audit the Darn Thing

  • March 10, 2015
  • Terry Schilling
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…
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Bankers versus Rand Paul?

  • February 24, 2015
  • Paul Dupont
Five of twelve regional Fed presidents have formally opposed Audit the Fed, and now Reuters reports: A Reuters survey of 24 state banking groups has found that four are actively opposed to…
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Will Paul Get Serious About the Federal Reserve?

  • February 23, 2015
  • Steve Wagner
This is not another in a long line of often vitriolic attacks on Senator Rand Paul for his temerity to propose “auditing the Fed.” As is by now well-recognized, his…
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