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This Week in Economics: 4 Stories You Should Know About

The U.S. economy showed surprising strength in the first quarter of 2019, with initial estimates of GDP growth coming in at a solid 3.2 percent, and more significantly, year-over-year productivity…

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Steve Forbes’ Pro-Growth Pitch: End Taxes on Gold and Silver!

A few weeks back I discussed how President Trump could deliver massive, pro-growth tax cuts without any approval from Congress. Today, one of these suggested policy changes received a major…

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Who Should Trump Appoint to the Fed? Here’s a Perfect Choice

Federal Reserve watchers are eagerly awaiting President Trump’s appointments for two vacant positions on the central bank’s board of governors. While you won’t see much discussion about these candidates on…

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Wall Street Journal to President Trump: It’s Time for Monetary Reform

This week, a fantastic editorial appeared in the Wall Street Journal that has sparked a very important conversation. In the article, the paper’s editorial board encourages President Trump to use monetary…

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Mooney Money! How This Rep. Is Reviving a Forgotten Economic “Magic Formula”

This week, Congressman Alexander Mooney (R-W.Va.) put the classical gold standard back into congressional purview with his introduction of H.R. 5404 and his excellent Wall Street Journal op-ed, “Steel and…

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Some Economists are Mad at Amazon… For Lowering Your Grocery Prices

Last week, Jeff Bezos sent Keynesian economists into a frenzy with the announcement that Amazon.com would be purchasing the Whole Foods grocery chain. So why were the Keynesians in despair?…

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Banks Are Creating Our Money — And It’s Not Working for the Rest of Us

This article was posted originally at the Epoch Times. The one force that causes the most harm in our economy also happens to be the least well-known and understood. While the…

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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…

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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…

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George Gilder: Money Is a Measuring Stick, Not a Magic Wand (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…

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The Fed’s Surrealistic “Melting Clocks” Monetary Policy Is the American Dream Killer

“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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Picking Mike Pence Really Was a Grand Slam for Donald Trump

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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Nomination of Ted Cruz Likely Would Reassure Investors

Barron’s compiled daily client memos from Greg Valliere, a Washington-based strategist with Horizon Investments, under the headline “Will Trump and Cruz’s Fed Feud Rattle Markets?” Subhed: “The two leading GOP…

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Ted Cruz: The GOP’s Sound Money Candidate

This column from The Daily Caller last week is a great defense of Ted Cruz on the gold standard: Mr. Cruz has been excoriated for seemingly incompatible statements concerning the U.S. central…

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Challenging the Fed’s “Inflated Reputation”

Last week at The American Spectator, Bob Luddy aimed some harsh criticism at the Federal Reserve, blaming the Fed’s policy of keeping interest rates artificially low with causing a decline in the…

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Why the Federal Reserve Never Stood a Chance

This piece was co-authored by Max Rangeley, an editor at The Cobden Centre. For the most part, tax, regulatory, fiscal, and labor policies differentiate from country to country. This makes it…

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Larry Kudlow: “Stable Money Is the Next Big Growth Issue”

Larry Kudlow has also noticed that the Federal Reserve and its impact on growth have entered the GOP race: Stable money is the next big growth issue. To their credit,…

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How to Unite the Party: Fight the Fed!

The following is adapted from APP Chairman Sean Fieler’s remarks at the American Principles Project’s Practical Federalism Forum in Hooksett, N.H., on Oct. 3. We Americans are in an anti-establishment mood.…

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Dante’s Inferno Suggests Why Washington Lies in the Eighth Circle of Hell — And How It Can Escape

Revealed, in my Forbes.com column last weekend: Washington appears stuck in the Eighth Circle to which Dante assigns Falsifiers. Dante consigned alchemists and counterfeiters to the bottom of this next-to-lowest…

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Forbes.com’s John Tamny: The 21st Century Case For Gold is “Excellent and Very Important”

John Tamny, Political Economy Editor at Forbes.com, calls George Gilder’s new monograph, The 21st Century Case For Gold, published by the American Principles Project, “an excellent and very important read.” …

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