By SETH LIPSKY An under-reported development of this campaign season is the Republican Party’s decision this week to send Gov. Mitt Romney into the presidential race on a platform effectively calling for a new gold commission. The realization that America’s system of fiat money is part of...

by Steven Horwitz In Friday’s Washington Post, Ezra Klein raises a number of criticisms of the gold standard using as his hook the call for a new Gold Commission that appears in a draft of the new Republican Party platform.  Putting aside the question of party politics and what a new Commission...

Written by Lewis E. Lehrman Consider the natural properties of gold.  Gold is durable, homogenous, and fungible.  Indeed, by its intrinsic scientific nature, gold is imperishable, indestructible, and malleable.  Gold has a relatively low melting point, facilitating coinage.  Gold is portable...

BY JUDY SHELTON   What are the chances that President Barack Obama and his Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, will ever have anything meaningful to say about monetary policy​—​beyond continuing to try to coax Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to print ever more dollars to buy up...

By Steve H. Hanke A country’s money supply is made up of two distinct components. State money — the monetary liabilities of a central bank (typically referred to as base, or high-powered, money) — is one element, and is by far the smallest component of the money supply. The second and most...