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“The arc of the political universe is long, but it bends towards monetary policy.”

Undeclared presidential candidates New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush have pulled into the fore of the presidential debates about the most important factor behind the…

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A Way Forward for Bush

Is Jeb Bush’s campaign in trouble? The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza thinks so. New polling from the Post/ABC News shows Bush essentially tied for first place with Rand Paul, Scott Walker…

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Guess Who Is Criticizing the Fed?

On Tuesday, in a rather startling political development, two of the designated “moderates” in the race entered where even Rand Paul is treading lightly: criticizing the Fed. We fear they…

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Are Fed Policies Hurting the Middle Class?

In his post earlier this week on Chris Christie’s tax reform remarks in New Hampshire, Steve Wagner drew attention to some interesting comments the governor made on the Federal Reserve. To…

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Elizabeth Warren’s Strange Journey

A friend who was a student of Elizabeth Warren at the University of Pennsylvania Law School assures me that back then she was a Republican. So she has some history…

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Huckabee’s Economic Populism

Over at the National Journal, Josh Kraushaar makes the case against smartypants politically dismissing Mike Huckabee in a column tellingly called “Mike Huckabee’s Message is as Formidable as Jeb Bush’s…

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With New Tech Pick, Is Rand Paul Also Making Statement on Money?

There’s been a lot of talk about Rand Paul’s Internet operations, most of it good. The presidential candidate has invested in his online presence on a scale not seen since…

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Another Jobs Report, Another Disappointment

The headlines today don’t tell the whole story. While 223,000 new jobs in April sound like a positive development for our economy, the cold, harsh reality is that millions of…

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Why Did GDP Just Flatline Again?

A release by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) on Wednesday noted: Economy Off to a Sputtering Start in 2015 “Working families continue to suffer in the slow-growth Obama economy,” says House economic…

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Looking In Reverse to Move Forward: Why U.S. Monetary Policy is Inherently Flawed

There’s been a lot of discussion about the Federal Reserve lately. To be independent of Congress or not to be. To audit or not to audit. To decide interest rates…

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Janet Yellen’s Pickle

Have you ever heard of a pickle? I don’t mean what you put on a hamburger. I’m talking about one of the funniest sequences in baseball—when a base runner gets…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Janet Yellen Meets the Right

In my weekly Forbes.com column today, I described the presentations made at a meeting led by American Principles in Action with Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen and Governor Lael…

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