by Erik Kain on November 17, 2011
Whatever the merits of the gold standard, I don’t see it happening in the next five years. Where is the political will? Ron Paul remains steady in the polls, even surging a bit lately, but still a long ways from the White House. And unless I’m mistaken, Paul is the only serious contender for the [...]
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by Erik Kain on September 20, 2011
Last night I mentioned that the “populism” of recent Obama speeches and policy proposals is pretty weak tea compared to the populism of earlier leftist and agrarian movements at the turn of the 20th century. Matt Yglesias points to the actual class warfare that sits at the foundation of the platform of the Communist Party [...]
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