The One, Serious Problem with Trump’s Budget
Last week, President Trump released a budget plan that was widely praised by conservatives for reining in future spending. However, buried near the back of the budget (page 51) is…
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Ron Paul Cheers Historic, New State Law Ending Taxes on Gold Coins
Arizona just became the second state, after Utah, to remove state income tax from gold and silver coins. Ron Paul, for one, is cheering: Every supporter of free markets should…
Central Banks Were Invented by Communists
This article was originally posted at the Epoch Times. If you visit the Federal Reserve’s Facebook page, you will seldom find a positive comment. That’s because people who don’t care about…
Trump’s Fed Nominee Will Join the Gang That Can’t Shoot Straight
Recently, Politico reported that former Treasury undersecretary Randy Quarles will likely be nominated as the Federal Reserve’s top bank regulator. Since a potential Quarles appointment is viewed by some as…
Trump’s China Announcement Shows He’s “Right on the Money”
With President Trump’s 100th day in office fast approaching, his administration has already delivered on some of his key economic promises, including slashing regulations, instituting a federal hiring freeze, and…
President Trump’s Feuding Advisors Need a New Focus: Economic Growth
In my most recent column in Forbes.com, I said the infighting in the West Wing was an inevitable outcome of the long economic stagnation that President Trump inherited. The solution…
Do We Have Enough Gold to Return to the Gold Standard?
Lazy economic pundits argue that a return to the gold standard is impossible because “there is not enough gold.” Fortunately for those who want wages as good as gold, this…
Greenspan’s Big Reveal: The Secret Recipe for Economic Growth
Former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan praises the gold standard in the February 2017 issue of The World Gold Council’s Gold Investor. Therein he makes what may be his strongest statements…
Will Trump Be the “Gold Standard” President?
Remember when Donald Trump advocated for the gold standard on the campaign trail? GQ remembers: Bringing back the gold standard would be very hard to do, but boy would it…
Is Bitcoin’s Surge Pointing Us to the Gold Standard?
Last week, the “digital currency” Bitcoin raised eyebrows when, for the first time, a Bitcoin became more valuable than an ounce of gold. While Bitcoin remains unimpressive as a form…
Huffington Post Predicts Trump Will Call for Gold Standard
Recently, two of The Huffington Post’s political reporters, Eliot Nelson and Jeffrey Young (who have managed to fuse ridicule and journalism into something functionally indistinguishable from “Alternative Facts”) recently made…
Paul Krugman: “The Trump Economic Team Is Shaping up as a Gathering of Gold Bugs”
Paul Krugman tweets: Are people noticing that the Trump economic team is shaping up as a gathering of gold bugs? 1/ — Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) December 20, 2016 That tweet is…
High Stakes for 2016: Judy Shelton for Fed Chair to Make America Great Again
In The Daily Caller, freelance writer Johannes Schmidt writes “On November 8th I’m Voting For Our Next Fed Chair.” It’s an especially astute column. While many commentators correctly have focused…
Good Monetary Policy Is Too Serious a Matter to Be Left to the Fed
US News and World Report‘s Andrew Soergel reports that “With White House in Sight, Trump, Clinton Plan Fed Renovations: No matter who wins the election, times are likely changing at…
Will President Trump or Clinton Evade What Sunk the Ford, Carter, Bush and Obama Economy?
Whoever wins the presidency there is a lurking issue, the most underappreciated issue in politics. Getting it wrong destroyed the economy (and contributed to ending the presidencies) of Ford and…
Memo to President Trump or President Clinton: The Gold Standard Made America Both Good and Great
Marc Levinson writing recently in The Wall Street Journal provides a very pessimistic view for the American Dream, “Why the Economy Doesn’t Roar Anymore: The long boom after World War…
To Trump and Clinton: Heed the Lesson Jimmy Carter Never Learned
Yesterday I observed here how the 2016 race reflects American conditions in the late 1970s — also stagnant — and how the political elites are echoing President Jimmy Carter’s feckless…
George Gilder: All Forms of Money Must Be Based on Time (VIDEO)
George Gilder is most recently the author the ground breaking The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does. He is a founding fellow of the Discovery…
What ‘JFK and the Reagan Revolution’ Reveals About Trump
Remember prosperity? Want it back? Here’s the secret formula, which has always worked and would work again: Cut marginal tax rates and restore integrity to the dollar. Donald Trump is…
George Gilder: Angry About Inequality? Here’s the Real Culprit… (VIDEO)
George Gilder is most recently the author the ground breaking The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does. He is a founding fellow of the Discovery…