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Good Monetary Policy Is Too Serious a Matter to Be Left to the Fed

US News and World Report‘s Andrew Soergel reports that “With White House in Sight, Trump, Clinton Plan Fed Renovations: No matter who wins the election, times are likely changing at…

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Donald Trump, the Politicized Fed, and the Golden Rule

Left-leaning thought leaders have been unfairly scalding Donald Trump for his recent observations that the Federal Reserve is politicized. Therein an inconsistency, verging over into naked hypocrisy, by the left…

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Memo to Donald Trump: The Gold Standard Will Guarantee 4 Percent Growth

In calling for 4 percent growth, Donald Trump hit a home run. He has the right instincts. If he follows them he can turn this home run into a grand slam.…

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Fed Up! Hillary Clinton in Cahoots with Attempted “Hostile Takeover” of the Fed

I’m fed up with the Fed too, with its chronic policy failures. A lot of evidence shows the Federal Reserve to be a prime cause of lackluster job growth and…

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Hillary Clinton Elevates the Federal Reserve to God-Status

On Monday, Donald Trump stated what is essentially a fact to anyone who follows financial markets — the Federal Reserve has created a “false economy” that has artificially inflated the stock…

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The Fed Needs Adult Supervision. Time to Pass This Bill.

After meeting with progressive lobbyists at the Federal Reserve’s annual Jackson Hole retreat, Fed policymakers declared on Friday that the Fed needed new “tools” to manage the economy, including the…

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The Fed’s Surrealistic “Melting Clocks” Monetary Policy Is the American Dream Killer

“Houston, we’ve had a problem here.” With those low-key words, command module pilot Jack Swigert of Apollo 13 revealed that, in the later recollection of mission commander James A. Lovell, its…

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Could Trump Re-energize the Conservative Movement?

Jeff Bell, the American Principles Project’s Policy Director and occasional contributor to The Pulse 2016, was recently featured in an interview with National Review writer Neal Freeman about the 2016 election and…

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I’d Rather Invest in Taylor Swift Than the U.S. Government

When I sat down to read John Tamny’s fantastic new book — Who Needs the Fed? — I expected a tome about the errors taking place at the Federal Reserve,…

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Donald Trump (photo credit: Gage Skidmore)

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A Familiar Refrain: Trump Attacked Again for Gold Standard Support

Earlier this week in The Huffington Post, columnist Ben Walsh unleashed a fierce attack on the economic policies of Donald Trump, writing that Trump’s proposals “would cause a recession and…

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‘What Taylor Swift, Uber, and Robots Tell Us…’

So, as the headline has it, begins the subtitle of John Tamny’s latest book, Who Needs the Fed? It might have been even more aptly titled The Emperor Has No…

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Ending Monopoly Money

John Tamny’s new book Who Needs the Fed? is richly praised by such towering figures as George Will, who observes that “John Tamny [is] a one -man antidote to economic…

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Bloomberg News, Calling Gold “Everyone’s Favorite Standard,” Gives A Pulitzer-Worthy Scoop

A report by Michelle Jamrisko in Bloomberg News on May 17th, headlined “Make America Gold Again: Calls for Everyone’s Favorite Standard Are Back,” suggests that the headline may have outrun its pass…

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Forbes Columnist: This “May Be the Most Important Political Book of the Year”

From Forbes.com comes this must-read review by columnist Jerry Bowyer of George Gilder’s The Scandal of Money. Here’s a taste: George Gilder’s newest book, The Scandal of Money, is more than just…

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Is the GOP Going for Gold?

While families struggle to live paycheck to paycheck in a broken, cash-strapped economy, the Republican Party has been largely ambivalent on the most pressing economic concerns of working Americans —…

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Nomination of Ted Cruz Likely Would Reassure Investors

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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James Rickards Makes “The New Case For Gold”

Auric Goldfinger was a Bond villain obsessed with gold. James Rickards is the James Bond of gold. Rickards has amassed, one infers, a massive following with his previous books, The…

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The Federal Reserve: “A God That Has Failed”

Why does Wall Street keep recovering after recessions but the economy seemingly never does? The reason, as I document in my book, “The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers…

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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…

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