The Fed Versus the Gold Standard
Recent vilification of the Fed and claims that a gold standard can solve U.S. economic problems are without empirical foundation.
Recent vilification of the Fed and claims that a gold standard can solve U.S. economic problems are without empirical foundation.
Reuters | Posted 05.20.2012
WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday took aim at proponents of the gold standard, saying that such a sy...
Jay Weston | Posted 05.05.2012
On Sunday, Jonathan Gold held his fifth annual Gold Standard culinary event. This one is an ethnic food paradise, where foodies pay for an afternoon of eating and drinking until you drop... of exhaustion, stomach seizures and such.
Huffington Post Los Angeles | Sarah St. Lifer | Posted 03.05.2012
Hosted at the Petersen Automotive Museum on Miracle Mile, LA Weekly's 4th annual Gold Standard on Sunday, March 5th was the foodie event of the year. ...
AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 03.19.2012
AUSTIN, Texas — Facing double-digit inflation in 1981, Congress created a commission to consider a role for gold in U.S. monetary policy. The 17...
Kyle Victor | Posted 03.05.2012
Democrats and progressives must become more willing to engage in monetary policy conversation and make the case for keeping the Fed, for using QE and stimulus to get America out of recession, and for more robust financial regulation.
HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.02.2012
Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning Princeton economist and New York Times columnist, said Tuesday that the United States needs to spend on a scale ...
Diane Francis | Posted 11.02.2011
It looks like gold will hit $2,011 an ounce in 2011 as the permanent drop in Western living standards continues apace.
Andrew Reinbach | Posted 10.28.2011
Rep. Paul's earned the treatment by the press he's been complaining about, just on the merits, because his positions on many of his favorite issues just don't stand scrutiny.
Robin Koerner | Posted 10.11.2011
Austrians prefer limited government -- limited to enforcing contracts made voluntarily between free individuals. They don't want government to print and inflate money as that allows them covertly to reduce private wealth, transferring it to themselves.
HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 09.10.2011
WASHINGTON -- The chief proponent of a return to the monetary gold standard has contributed the maximum $10,000 from his political action committee (P...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011
It's what the treacherous and fluctuating investment arena is all about. One day you're a hero. The next day, you're a bum. Take gold, the darling of the safe-haven crowd.
Posted 05.25.2011
Our top picks? LA Weekly's annual Gold Standard food tasting, the Rodarte exhibit opening at MOCA, and Avenue Q, a puppet show for adults only. For mo...
24/7 Wall St. | Posted 05.25.2011
Even if 2011 has gotten off to a rough start for gold, everyone knows that the value of gold is at historic highs. What is interesting is that there ...
The Global Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Gold has been having a great run lately. On Nov. 9, it closed at a record high of $1409.80 per ounce. It's being hoarded as the only safe bet in a wor...
Posted 05.25.2011
On the Colbert Report Tuesday night, Rep. Ron Paul and NYT reporter David Leonhardt went mano-a-mano over the value of gold (or, the "lepriconomy," as...
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
Bobby Franklin, a Republican state legislator from Georgia, has introduced a new piece of legislation that, if passed, would force Georgians to pay th...
Nathan Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011
It is not too long -- less than a decade I would guess -- before the Keynesian Experiment comes to an end, and the world can finally get back on a more productive and healthy track.
Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011
Is the modern gold rush is actually a mania, or in fact a legitimate reflection of serious financial and economic stresses?
Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011
The $64,000 question is whether the modern gold rush is actually a mania or, in fact, a legitimate reflection of serious financial and economic stresses.
Warren Mosler | Posted 05.25.2011
David Stockman, a director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan, is working on a book about the financial crisis and r...
Nathan Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011
"Stimulus" is a great cover story for old-fashioned patronage and graft.
Nathan Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011
It's absurd to accuse China of "currency manipulation." China has a policy of no currency manipulation while the US has a policy of continuous currency manipulation.
Posted 05.25.2011
***UPDATE*** Think Progress flags some of the more eye-opening revisions the Texas Board of Education approved for its social studies curriculum and ...
Christie Bishop | Posted 05.25.2011
Today marked LA Weekly's 2nd annual "Gold Standard," a food and wine event of "epic"urean proportions held at the Petersen Automotive Museum. Curated ...
Jeffrey A. Miron | Posted 04.18.2012