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Gilder’s “New Information Theory of Money” Fixes the Meaning of Money

George Gilder’s new monograph, “The 21st Century Case for Gold: A New Information Theory of Money,” offers a revolutionary alternative to today’s “deeply flawed understanding of the nature of money.”…

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George Gilder Demolishes Myth About Gold Standard

From Forbes.com: What if the gold standard is not an antique but, rather, a “timeless classic” (as termed in a speech by Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann in September 2012)? High tech…

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Greece and Gold

Megan McArdle, a smart journalist, is dead wrong in arguing that the moral of the Greek story is bad for gold. The reason for Greece’s troubles is the failure of the…

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Gilder: Money Is Not a “Magic Wand” For the Fed

George Gilder, occasional contributor to The Pulse 2016, appeared on the McAlvany Weekly Commentary Podcast last week to talk about his new book, The 21st Century Case for Gold: A New Information…

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Mr. Robot: “Money hasn’t been real since we got off the gold standard.”

“Money hasn’t been real since we got off the gold standard. It’s become virtual software. The operating system of our world. And we are on the verge of taking down…

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The Return of the Money Thinkers

The dry spell is over. That’s the argument of Forbes columnist Nathan Lewis, in reaction to a new book by George Gilder on the 21st Century Case for Gold. Lewis…

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The Gold Standard in the Curriculum

The May 1 edition of Education Week reports: North Carolina senators approved a bill earlier this week that would require curriculum for high school students to include instruction about the gold…

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Bush and Christie Tackle the Fed: Here’s A Killer App

Governors Bush and Christie recently were commended at ThePulse, here and here, for their astute leadership in raising the issue of the Fed’s role in causing the dearth of job…

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Ramesh is Wrong

My short book presents a new information theory of money. Only in passing did I cite Ramesh Ponnuru and National Review as influential representatives of a monetarist faith curiously shared with…

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Steve Forbes’ “Blunt Truth” About Money

I had the pleasure of attending an event in New York City last week for the unveiling of George Gilder’s new book, The 21st Century Case for Gold: A New…

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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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Kudlow: Greenspan Saying Gold is the Only Real Currency

Larry Kudlow mentions that Alan Greenspan is touting something like a gold standard: As for rules and the Fed, there are a bunch of proposals out there: There’s the inflation-fighting…

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Contra Vinik: Rand Paul Silent on Gold

Contrary to Vinik’s assertion, Rand Paul has never, to my knowledge, stated his position on the gold standard. And our current regime is not monetarist; it is fiduciary. Ralph Benko,…

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The New Republic Wants to Ask Yellen About the Dangerous Gold Standard

Kudos to Danny Vinik, with his shiny 2013 degree in economics and public policy from Duke University, for wanting to push Janet Yellen to address what he calls the GOP’s “implicit”…

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