It’s Time to End the Fed’s Money Monopoly
History suggests that the only way to rein in the sprawling Federal Reserve is to end its money monopoly and restore the American people’s ability to use gold as a…
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Bernanke Blasts Rand Paul Back
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.…
High Praise for Rand Paul’s Challenge of Ben Bernanke to Debate
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…
Trump Is Right, Sorta; This Issue Could Be “Yuge”!
During the past two weeks, Donald Trump has made claims that Janet Yellen is keeping interest levels low to help Obama and the Democrats: “This is a political thing, keeping these…
Trump Attacks Janet Yellen and Federal Reserve, Again
Donald Trump doubled down on his criticism of U.S. monetary policy Friday, accusing Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen of artificially keeping interest rates low as a favor to President Obama. …
Ben Carson Links Debt to Monetary Policy
Dr. Ben Carson was interviewed on the economy last week by Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal. Carson talked about America’s debt and made an important connection between the growth of the…
How to Unite the Party: Fight the Fed!
The following is adapted from APP Chairman Sean Fieler’s remarks at the American Principles Project’s Practical Federalism Forum in Hooksett, N.H., on Oct. 3. We Americans are in an anti-establishment mood.…
Negative Interest Rates? Is the Fed Delusional?
The latest jobs report is lackluster — just 142,000 jobs were added to the economy in September. The labor force participation rate is now down to its lowest level since…
The Missing Fed
The Federal Reserve is the most powerful unelected financial powerhouse in the world. Its impact on our economy and financial markets is staggering. Yet this unaccountable institution and its role…
Dante’s Inferno Suggests Why Washington Lies in the Eighth Circle of Hell — And How It Can Escape
Revealed, in my Forbes.com column last weekend: Washington appears stuck in the Eighth Circle to which Dante assigns Falsifiers. Dante consigned alchemists and counterfeiters to the bottom of this next-to-lowest…
Incomes Decline Again, But Will GOP Candidates Speak Out?
Last week, new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau showed inflation-adjusted median income slipping to $53,657 in 2014, a drop from the previous year and a 6.5 percent drop…
WSJ Confesses Fed Has No Clue How to Restore Economy
The cyberworld is buzzing from Janet Yellen’s announcement she’s not yet going to permit interest rates to find their market level. Gradually, slowly but inexorably, even central bankers are beginning…
The Free Lunch That Never Was
Yesterday, the Federal Open Market Committee once again confirmed that they are unable to normalize the federal funds rate. The Fed promised they could save us in 2008 and then…
Fiorina Triumphs While Bush Makes the Case for Growth
Hey, don’t tell anyone, but Carly Fiorina is my new heart throb, breaking through the maginot lines of poll-driven mediocrity, where candidates carefully tell the audience what they already think,…
On Constitution Day, Congress Abdicates Constitutional Responsibilities to Fed
Two hundred and twenty eight years ago today, thirty nine delegates gathered in Philadelphia to sign the Constitution of the United States. This profound document states clearly in Article I, Section…
Hey Jake Tapper, Ask About the Fed!
Sen. Rand Paul and a co-author, on the occasion of today’s FOMC meeting and the morning before the second presidential debate, took to The Wall Street Journal editorial page to…
This Question Needs to Be Asked Tonight at the CNN Debate
I would love CNN to ask one key question tonight at the GOP debate: “What has gone wrong at the Federal Reserve? They’ve kept interest rates at zero for more…
WaPo: Conservatives Take on the Fed in Jackson Hole
Today, The Washington Post reported on APP’s Jackson Hole Summit and the growing movement among conservatives concerned about the Fed’s monetary policy: They converged last week on a red barn here in…
Jackson Hole Summit Reveals Obliviousness of Fed
Over at Forbes.com, Brian Domitrovic provides a solid rundown of last week’s Jackson Hole Summit, hosted by the American Principles Project. Domitrovic argues that while the Fed’s concurrent conference remained…
Five Things Jim DeMint Taught Us At Jackson Hole
Senator Jim DeMint, President of the Heritage Foundation, gave the keynote speech on the second day of APIA’s Jackson Hole Summit Friday. DeMint covered a lot of ground, talking about…
