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Ralph Benko

Ralph Benko

Ralph Benko is senior advisor, economics, for American Principles in Action, in Washington, DC, specializing in the gold standard and advisor to and editor of the Lehrman Institute's The Gold Standard Now. He is editor-in-chief of thesupplyside.blogspot.com. With Charles Kadlec, he is co-author of The 21st Century Gold Standard: For Prosperity, Security, and Liberty available for free download here. Benko and Kadlec are co-editors of the Laissez Faire Books edition of Copernicus's Essay on Money. He also manages the Facebook page The Gold Standard. Follow him on Twitter as TheWebster.

Politics18 January 16<14 January 16

Ted Cruz Has The Best Idea In The Presidential Debate: A Return To The Gold Standard

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…

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Politics9 November 15<8 November 15

Ted Cruz Rockets Up With Gold And A Flat Tax

Ted Cruz rocked in the presidential race during the CNBC debate. His biggest breakthrough, even more important than his crowd-pleasing holding the media to…

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Politics31 August 15<22 August 15

If The Fed Is Always Wrong How Can Its Policies Ever Be Right?

One of the most curiously persistent surrealisms of Washington, DC is the reflexive deference given the Federal Reserve System. The Washington elite tends to…

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Politics31 July 15<27 July 15

On To Immense Prosperity: The Brady-Cornyn Monetary Commission Proposes To Lead The Fed Out Of Uncharted Territory

We pixel-stained wretches of the Mass Media lately have been busy as ever transfixing you with spectacles. Meanwhile, something really important — softly outside…

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Money22 July 15<20 July 15

George Gilder Shows Paul Krugman Why Modern Macroeconomics, Not The Gold Standard, Is Anti-Scientific

July 9th was the anniversary of the most famous speech of any presidential campaign.  William Jennings Bryan, in a speech to the 1896 Democratic convention, declaimed…

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Money16 July 15<13 July 15

High Tech Guru George Gilder Demolishes A Critical Myth About The Gold Standard

What if the gold standard is not an antique but, rather, a “timeless classic” (as termed in a speech by Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann in September…

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Money16 June 15<16 June 15

What The “Bourbon Shortage” And The Kentucky Derby Can Teach Us About The Fed

There is an urban legend that there is a looming Bourbon Supply Crisis. (Heaven Forfend!) Meanwhile, American Pharoah, as expected, won the Kentucky Derby….

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Book Reviews, Economics9 June 15<9 June 15

Seth Lipsky’s The Floating Kilogram, “The Federalist Papers For A Gold Standard”

A recent article in The Week by progressive columnist Jeff Spross, How modern capitalism killed self-reliance, observed that “The gold standard is a niche…

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Politics20 May 15<20 May 15

The UK Left’s Political Martyrdom: Welcome to the Church of State

Progressives are a Faithful lot. They live, and die, by a Creed. Welcome to the Church of State. We saw the religiosity at work…

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Society9 April 15<9 April 15

The Science Fictional Foundation Under Paul Krugman, Part Two

As noted in my preceding column Dr. Paul Krugman’s reflections, as published in the UK Guardian at the end of 2012, Paul Krugman: Asimov’s…

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