Why Do Central Bankers Oppose a Gold Standard?
By: Mike Gleason Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s testimony before Congress was closely scrutinized not just for its economic implications but also for its political overtones. Powell cited “trade tensions” ...
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The Court and the Fed: Our Own Aristocratic Element
by John O. McGinnis The idea of a mixed regime goes back to ancient times. Philosophers contrasted pure regimes, like democracy or oligarchy, with those that combined different classes, such ...
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Signed as Law: Kansas Removes Barrier to the Use of Gold and Silver as Money
By: Mike Maharrey TOPEKA, Kan. (May 22, 2019) – Last week, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly signed a bill exempting gold and silver bullion, and other precious metals, from the state ...
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How the Fed Wrecks the Economy
By: Mike Maharrey When people talk about the economy, they generally focus on government policies such as taxation and regulation. For instance, Republicans credit Pres. Trump’s tax cuts for the ...
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Trump Is No Enemy of the Fed
By: Mike Maharrey A lot of people labor under a misconception that President Donald Trump opposes the Federal Reserve. While the president has leveled a great deal of criticism at ...
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Government Spending is Theft
by Ron Paul Imagine being robbed every time you receive a paycheck, but once a year getting some of the stolen money back because the thieves took more than they ...
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This is a Debt Spiral
By: Mike Maharrey The U.S. federal government has spun into a death-spiral. Or perhaps we should call it a debt-spiral. According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president ...
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Trump Wants Obama-Style Monetary Policy
By: Mike Maharrey President Trump wants the Federal Reserve to relaunch Obama-era monetary stimulus. That means inflation. Trump started ratcheting up criticism of Federal Reserve monetary policy months ago. As ...
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The Green Bad Deal
by Ron Paul The recently-proposed Green New Deal is proof that climate change is for progressive Democrats what terrorism is for neoconservative Republicans: a ready-made excuse to expand government and ...
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Fiat Money and the Promise of Cryptocurrency
by John O. McGinnis Last weekend, I spoke at the Federalist Society Student Convention on the subject of cryptocurrency. When I became a member of the small band that was ...
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