In my weekly Forbes.com column today, I described the presentations made at a meeting led by American Principles in Action with Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen and Governor Lael Brainard last Friday. To read the full column, click here. An excerpt:
Brian Domitrovic was one of 22 conservatives invited by American Principles in Action to meet with Janet Yellen last Friday. In his column yesterday for Forbes.com, Domitrovic reveals what he told the Fed Chair: In the era of the near-classical monetary standard, the economy
At a CPAC panel on Thursday, APP’s executive director Terry Schilling told GOP candidates to look to monetary policy to explain the average family’s shrinking paycheck: “The demand for digital currency like Bitcoin is a symptom of a larger problem—failed monetary policy,”
The political firepower generated by Sen. Rand Paul’s Audit the Fed bill is now giving new attention to an alternative or potentially complimentary political response: to shift power from the New York Federal Reserve Bank to other regional Federal Reserve Banks. The
Larry Kudlow reports on the dinner at which Giuliani made news by dissing President Obama’s love for America. His new Committee to Unleash American Prosperity wants us to return to the first principles of economic growth: It was the second event sponsored by the
Last week, National Journal published a piece by Ronald Brownstein entitled “The Most Valuable Voters of 2016.” The subtitle sums it up well: “The election may come down to turning out minority voters and wooing seniors in the battleground states.” It is
Sen. Rand Paul is drawing liberal fire from many left wing commentators, now including Prof. Paul Krugman. Many of the criticisms are badly off base. As noted in yesterday’s column there is so much simply factually incorrect about The New Republic‘s Danny Vinik recent
It isn’t often that I agree with Paul Krugman. But on Friday, Krugman devoted his NYT column to the idea that “[m]onetary policy probably won’t be a major issue in the 2016 campaign, but it should be.” Well, Krugman got it half
