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Trump’s Knockout Punch Opportunity

  • September 27, 2016
  • Ralph Benko
In the first of the three presidential debates, only Trump’s handlers scored his performance as better than a draw. Both candidates jabbed and scored some points against the other. Pity…
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The Gold Standard: Copernicus, Newton, Priestley… and Trump?

  • September 26, 2016
  • Ralph Benko
Sam Kriss, in The Atlantic, has a wonderful new story, “Flat-Earthers Have A Wild New Theory About Forests,” in which I find an oblique allusion to… myself. Still, among all the…
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George Gilder: Money Is a Measuring Stick, Not a Magic Wand (VIDEO)

  • September 23, 2016
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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…
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Donald Trump, the Politicized Fed, and the Golden Rule

  • September 20, 2016
  • Ralph Benko
Left-leaning thought leaders have been unfairly scalding Donald Trump for his recent observations that the Federal Reserve is politicized. Therein an inconsistency, verging over into naked hypocrisy, by the left…
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Memo to Donald Trump: The Gold Standard Will Guarantee 4 Percent Growth

  • September 16, 2016
  • Ralph Benko
In calling for 4 percent growth, Donald Trump hit a home run. He has the right instincts. If he follows them he can turn this home run into a grand slam.…
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Fed Up! Hillary Clinton in Cahoots with Attempted “Hostile Takeover” of the Fed

  • September 14, 2016
  • Ralph Benko
I’m fed up with the Fed too, with its chronic policy failures. A lot of evidence shows the Federal Reserve to be a prime cause of lackluster job growth and…
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Hillary Clinton Elevates the Federal Reserve to God-Status

  • September 8, 2016
  • Terry Schilling
On Monday, Donald Trump stated what is essentially a fact to anyone who follows financial markets — the Federal Reserve has created a “false economy” that has artificially inflated the stock…
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The Best Hope for Restoring the American Dream Now Lives in the US Senate

  • September 7, 2016
  • Ralph Benko
Who will conjure the American Dream back for us? Politics is part prestidigitation, part reality. A great magician distracts her audience’s attention while producing the payoff. Abracadabra! Want to see how…
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The Fed Needs Adult Supervision. Time to Pass This Bill.

  • August 31, 2016
  • Jon Schweppe
After meeting with progressive lobbyists at the Federal Reserve’s annual Jackson Hole retreat, Fed policymakers declared on Friday that the Fed needed new “tools” to manage the economy, including the…
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The Fed’s Surrealistic “Melting Clocks” Monetary Policy Is the American Dream Killer

  • August 30, 2016
  • Ralph Benko
“Houston, we’ve had a problem here.” With those low-key words, command module pilot Jack Swigert of Apollo 13 revealed that, in the later recollection of mission commander James A. Lovell, its…
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Could Trump Re-energize the Conservative Movement?

  • August 1, 2016
  • Paul Dupont
Jeff Bell, the American Principles Project’s Policy Director and occasional contributor to The Pulse 2016, was recently featured in an interview with National Review writer Neal Freeman about the 2016 election and…
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Bloomberg View Notices: Trump Loves Gold

  • July 25, 2016
  • Ralph Benko
Bloomberg View‘s Timothy L. O’Brien recently provided a colorful and insightful feature entitled “Donald Trump Loves Gold and Don’t You Forget It.” Therein O’Brien provides an opulently illustrated, lengthy litany…
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The Wall Street Journal Takes Notice of the 2016 GOP Platform and the Gold Standard

  • July 21, 2016
  • Ralph Benko
Kate Davidson in The Wall Street Journal recently took note of a GOP 2016 plank that had been largely overlooked in all the focus on the social issues in the…
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Picking Mike Pence Really Was a Grand Slam for Donald Trump

  • July 19, 2016
  • Ralph Benko
Mike Pence? Full disclosure: I served as head of the Super PAC seeking to draft Pence into the 2012 presidential race. Having long been persuaded of Pence’s superior leadership qualities,…
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First Draft of the GOP Platform: What You Need to Know

  • July 11, 2016
  • Michael Lucchese
On Sunday evening, the Republican National Committee shared a 58-page first draft of the party’s 2016 platform with members of the convention’s platform committee, which will debate, add, or change…
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I’d Rather Invest in Taylor Swift Than the U.S. Government

  • June 27, 2016
  • Jon Schweppe
When I sat down to read John Tamny’s fantastic new book — Who Needs the Fed? — I expected a tome about the errors taking place at the Federal Reserve,…
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A Familiar Refrain: Trump Attacked Again for Gold Standard Support

  • June 21, 2016
  • Paul Dupont
Earlier this week in The Huffington Post, columnist Ben Walsh unleashed a fierce attack on the economic policies of Donald Trump, writing that Trump’s proposals “would cause a recession and…
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Will the Media Now Cover Trump’s Pro-Gold Standard Comments?

  • June 16, 2016
  • Jon Schweppe
In an interview with GQ last year, Donald Trump made comments that appeared to indicate a preference for shifting American monetary policy to the gold standard. Bringing back the gold…
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A Letter to the Left: The Gold Standard Will Restore Upward Mobility

  • June 10, 2016
  • Ralph Benko
About a year ago, Stan Sorscher, Labor Representative, Society for Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, published a frighteningly important blog at The Huffington Post (where I also blog on a regular…
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The Story of “Reagan’s Lost Campaign Ad”

  • June 9, 2016
  • Elliot Hazzard
Jeff Bell, Policy Director for the American Principles Project and occasional contributor to The Pulse 2016, recently sat down for an interview with The Daily Reckoning’s Brian Maher to discuss…
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