It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … Congressman!
Americans just cast ballots for president, for the House, and for a third of the U.S. Senate, plus various local offices and referenda in…
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.
Signs of the gold standard emerging In China?
As noted in last week’s column about the rising recognition by authorities in Germany about the virtues of gold, the gold standard is receiving impressive…
Money out of thin air, mystical and dreamlike
“Indeed, the fact that central banks can create money out of thin air, so to speak, is something that many observers are likely to…
Money, twisted: caught in the devil’s bargain
In this world, what isn’t lacking, somewhere, though? Sometimes it’s this, or that: here what’s missing’s gold. – Goethe, Faust, Part II, translated by…
John Cochrane, the grumpy economist, meets the gold standard
A view from America … 8+% unemployment, now. The GDP, last we checked, crawls along at a 1.5% growth rate, slower than population growth. …
Frenzied spending caused a feeble recovery
A view from America … Would you happily sign an IOU for $126,000 to allow Barack Obama to keep his Big Spender status going?…
Romney v. Obama: the 2012 race may hinge on the Fed
A view from America … Mitt Romney is the favorite to win the Republican nomination for president. If nominated, the campaign against Obama may…
Book Review: James Rickards’ “Currency Wars”
In virtually every airport bookstore in America right now you will find a little sleeper of a book in the business section which is…
A new gold commission?
A view from America … “The gold standard is a modern, digital, information-sharing, global operating standard. Moreover, it is a stable, networking, efficient, price…
The business cycle throws the GOP a curveball
A view from America … 243,000 new jobs? This is more than respectable. No unseemly disparagement by Republicans welcome, nor victory lap by Democrats. …