Will the Lee-Rubio Tax Plan Doom Rubio’s Candidacy?
The Rubio announcement of candidacy on Monday (April 13) was frustrating for its lack of policy substance, the “what and how” that would define his presidency. He seems intent on…
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What Marco Needs to Say Tonight
With much excitement surrounding Sen. Marco Rubio’s speech at the Freedom Tower today, there’s been little speculation about what he’s going to say outside of his tax plan with Sen. Mike…
Rubio Should Revive Sound Money Theme
Marco Rubio has been putting forward a lot of new and innovative policy proposals lately and people are beginning to take notice. CNN reporter MJ Lee recently praised Rubio’s strategy,…
What Does Janet Yellen Fear?
A conversation last month between New York Sun editor (and former WSJ editor) Seth Lipsky and radio host Dawn Bennett raised some interesting points on monetary policy and the Fed: Ms. Bennett: It…
Audit the Fed is Not Enough
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…
Rick Santorum Tests a Populist Message
For a guy with such a strong showing in the 2012 primaries, Rick Santorum gets surprisingly little coverage in the presidential field. Yesterday, however, The Iowa Republican reported that Santorum…
Jindal Joins the Fed Debate
Over at his widely-read Iowa blog Caffeinated Thoughts, ThePulse2016.com’s own Shane Vander Hart asked Gov. Bobby Jindal during his Iowa visit about a lot of things, including why the economy is…
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…
