Paul Krugman Attacks Ted Cruz and Paul Ryan on Gold
Paul Krugman, from his New York Times perch on March 25 writing “Crazy About Money,” lets himself go nuts recycling his standard arguments against the gold standard. He throws some…
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The Washington Post Defames Cruz’s Strong Prosperity Formula
The Washington Post Wonkblog‘s Neo-Keynesian Matt O’Brien — who, aptly enough, tweets as @ObsoleteDogma — pauses to attack Neo-(Classical)-Liberal Ted Cruz in “Does Ted Cruz think his tax plan would cause…
Ted Cruz Gets the Prosperity Formula Right Again
Jeet Heer, of the New (and For Sale) Republic, recently presented an oddly off kilter piece entitled “Ted Cruz mangled the history of the Great Depression.” Therein he writes: Fielding a question…
Onward to a Golden Age: The Washington Post’s Matt O’Brien Attacks Ted Cruz for Supporting the Gold Standard
Matt O’Brien — the anti-gold standard columnist of The Washington Post — at last has struck back at Ted Cruz for his advocacy for a “rules-based monetary supply, ideally tied…
South Carolina’s “Golden” Legacy
The Federal Reserve, and its management of its one-and-only product, Federal Reserve Notes (a.k.a. money), has turned into a really significant issue in the 2016 presidential race. The GOP South Carolina…
Ted Cruz’s Support for the Gold Standard Has Excellent Support Among Respected Economists
Ted Cruz is campaigning on the gold standard. He is smart to do so. In Forbes.com, commentator Nathan Lewis notes that notwithstanding the claim that there is an elite academic…
Ted Cruz in New Hampshire and an America Where the Streets Are Paved with Gold
The Washington Post reports that Ted Cruz is making the case for high quality money and the gold standard in New Hampshire. Cruz: “One of the problems is the volatility…
Which Presidential Aspirant(s) Would Make America (And You!) Prosper?
As I recently wrote in my Forbes.com column, “Presidential elections are about, above all, just two things: our security and our prosperity.” The GOP candidates have been emphatic about our…
Ted Cruz: Angel of Light?
One Robert Davis recently published, at The Hill, a blog headlined “Cruz: Prince of Darkness.” It is clear both from the headline and the content that Mr. Davis, a retired…
Cruz Is Smart to Campaign on the Gold Standard
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has propelled the gold standard out of long political hibernation and into the 2016 presidential campaign. Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Mike…
Trump Flinches From the Final Pre-Iowa Debate
The mainstream media, as exemplified by the The Washington Post, is reporting that “Trump says he won’t participate in GOP debate on Fox News.” The charismatic Donald Trump has a…
Ted Cruz Proves Prescient: The Dow’s Plummet Calls for the Gold Standard
The world’s stock markets continue to plunge. Why? And what are the political implications? As I wrote last year in Forbes.com (reprinted as far and wide as Pravda): The Wall…
Why Is Ted Cruz Only the “Third Most Conservative Man in the World”?
Ted Cruz is leading — or at least neck-and-neck — with Donald Trump in Iowa. One of the reasons for Cruz’s rise in the polls is that Ted Cruz, clearly,…
Newsweek Calls the Fed a “Marquee Issue” in the Presidential Race
Newsweek offers this startling headline: “Paul, Sanders Join Forces Against Federal Reserve.” Given Sanders’s surge in the polls as a serious rival to Hillary Clinton, it is very notable that…
Hey Ted Cruz, Join Me in Wishing Sir Isaac Newton, Father of the Gold Standard, Happy Birthday! Tweet on!
This week we celebrate the birthday of a genius, the founder of modern physics, Sir Isaac Newton. Few people recognize that Newton also was the father of the gold standard…
Gold Is the Money of the Future: Gilder’s 21st Century Case For Gold
In his fascinating recent book, The 21st Century Case For Gold, George Gilder flips the debate back against those who would denigrate the gold standard as a ‘barbarous relic’. For…
Ted Cruz Has the Best Idea in the Presidential Debate: A Return to the Gold Standard
The LA Times’s Michael Hiltzik recently wrote a column slamming the GOP field in general and one of the two front-runners, Ted Cruz, in particular: The worst idea in the…
The Real Myth Lies With Gold Standard Critics
The real deep myth at the heart of criticism of the gold standard is that it’s value stems from its use as a commodity. The fact is that gold is valuable because…
AEI’s James Pethokoukis Takes a More Temperate Tone Toward the Gold Standard
At AEIdeas, columnist and blogger James Pethokoukis again returns to a favorite topic, the gold standard. In “The deep myth at the heart of the gold standard,” Pethokoukis writes: One…
No CNN, Ted Cruz’s Push for Gold Is a Very Good Idea
CNN, Larry Summers, and Paul Krugman. Right on schedule, the elites are piling on Sen. Ted Cruz for his support of the gold standard. Their commentary ranges from subtly wrong,…
