gold standard Archives

Bloomberg View Notices: Trump Loves Gold

Bloomberg View‘s Timothy L. O’Brien recently provided a colorful and insightful feature entitled “Donald Trump Loves Gold and Don’t You Forget It.” Therein O’Brien provides an opulently illustrated, lengthy litany…

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The Wall Street Journal Takes Notice of the 2016 GOP Platform and the Gold Standard

Kate Davidson in The Wall Street Journal recently took note of a GOP 2016 plank that had been largely overlooked in all the focus on the social issues in the…

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Picking Mike Pence Really Was a Grand Slam for Donald Trump

Mike Pence? Full disclosure: I served as head of the Super PAC seeking to draft Pence into the 2012 presidential race. Having long been persuaded of Pence’s superior leadership qualities,…

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First Draft of the GOP Platform: What You Need to Know

On Sunday evening, the Republican National Committee shared a 58-page first draft of the party’s 2016 platform with members of the convention’s platform committee, which will debate, add, or change…

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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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Will the Media Now Cover Trump’s Pro-Gold Standard Comments?

In an interview with GQ last year, Donald Trump made comments that appeared to indicate a preference for shifting American monetary policy to the gold standard. Bringing back the gold…

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A Letter to the Left: The Gold Standard Will Restore Upward Mobility

About a year ago, Stan Sorscher, Labor Representative, Society for Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, published a frighteningly important blog at The Huffington Post (where I also blog on a regular…

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The Story of “Reagan’s Lost Campaign Ad”

Jeff Bell, Policy Director for the American Principles Project and occasional contributor to The Pulse 2016, recently sat down for an interview with The Daily Reckoning’s Brian Maher to discuss…

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Donald Trump, the Gold Standard, Maynard Keynes, and Our Madmen in Authority

. . . June 5th, is the anniversary of the birth of John Maynard Keynes, once upon a time the great foe of the gold standard. [It] also, coincidentally, happens…

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Jimmy Kemp Endorses Daria Novak in U.S. House Race

Connecticut GOP candidate for Congress and longtime gold standard proponent Daria Novak has just received the endorsement of Jimmy Kemp, son of the late Jack Kemp, former HUD secretary and…

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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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Can the GOP Unite to Restore Economic Prosperity?

Last week Donald Trump met with Jack Kemp protégé House Speaker Paul Ryan. As the Washington Post aptly put it, “Ryan has the House. Trump has the party.” To quote…

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George Gilder: Here’s How to Achieve a Real Economic Recovery

George Gilder, author of The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does, recently joined Dawn Bennett on her radio show “Financial Myth Busting” to discuss…

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Trump’s Wake Up Call to the Republican Party

Republican Party leaders have lost touch with their base, with Independents, and with the general electorate’s craving for equitable prosperity. That’s odd. The economy consistently polls at the top of…

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Daria Novak Campaigns for the Gold Standard in Congressional Race

Daria Novak is crusading for the gold standard in her race for Congress in eastern Connecticut. Now, Novak recently has received the endorsement of George Gilder, the living author most…

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George Phillips, New York Congressional Candidate, Campaigns on the Gold Standard

George Phillips, campaigning for the Republican nomination for Congress in mid-state New York, recently featured the gold standard as part of his economic platform. As reported by Binghamtonhomepage.com, Phillips stated…

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Ted Cruz Just Hit a Grand Slam on Economic Growth on CNBC

On April 15th, Joe Kernen tee’d up his latest CNBC “Squawk Box” guest, Sen. Ted Cruz, perfectly. Kernen: Growth, around the world, economic growth almost cures all ills. It cures…

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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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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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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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