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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreTed Cruz rocked in the presidential race during the CNBC debate. His biggest breakthrough, even more important than his crowd-pleasing holding the media to…
Read MoreOne of the most curiously persistent surrealisms of Washington, DC is the reflexive deference given the Federal Reserve System. The Washington elite tends to…
Read MoreWe pixel-stained wretches of the Mass Media lately have been busy as ever transfixing you with spectacles. Meanwhile, something really important — softly outside…
Read MoreJuly 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…
Read MoreWhat 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…
Read MoreThere is an urban legend that there is a looming Bourbon Supply Crisis. (Heaven Forfend!) Meanwhile, American Pharoah, as expected, won the Kentucky Derby….
Read MoreA recent article in The Week by progressive columnist Jeff Spross, How modern capitalism killed self-reliance, observed that “The gold standard is a niche…
Read MoreProgressives are a Faithful lot. They live, and die, by a Creed. Welcome to the Church of State. We saw the religiosity at work…
Read MoreAs 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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