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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…

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AEI’s James Pethokoukis Takes a More Temperate Tone Toward the Gold Standard

January 4, 2016
Ralph Benko

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…

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Candidate
Economics

AEI’s James Pethokoukis Ignorantly Bashes Jeb Bush

October 13, 2015
Ralph Benko

Jeb Bush recently showed a dignified open-mindedness toward the gold standard. He thereby is much more to be commended than Neo-Keynesian columnists like Matt O’Brien — or “Reformocons” like James…

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