{"id":10123,"date":"2011-06-16T13:13:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T17:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10123"},"modified":"2011-06-16T13:13:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T17:13:44","slug":"renewed-interest-in-the-gold-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10123\/renewed-interest-in-the-gold-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewed Interest in the Gold Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Politico<\/em>\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0611\/Gold_Standard_2012.html \" target=\"_blank\">Ben Smith<\/a> reports that Jeffrey Bell of American Principles in Action is engaged in a 19-stop bus tour of Iowa to drum up support for returning U.S. monetary policy to the gold standard.\u00a0 According to Bell, focus groups of Tea Party activists in the Midwest were \u201castonishing\u201d in their support for the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Bell\u2019s goal is to get the Republican presidential field to incorporate the gold standard into their platforms.\u00a0 <em>Politico<\/em>\u2019s Smith explains the issue\u2019s allure:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Arguments over the gold standard date back more than a century, and their ideological charge is linked in part to the fact that making dollars convertible to gold would in theory limit the government&#8217;s capacity to act in the economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For that reason alone, putting a spotlight on the gold standard would be a good investment of time for American voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico\u2019s Ben Smith reports that Jeffrey Bell of American Principles in Action is engaged in a 19-stop bus tour of Iowa to drum up support for returning U.S. monetary policy to the gold standard.\u00a0 According to Bell, focus groups of Tea Party activists in the Midwest were \u201castonishing\u201d in their support for the issue. Bell\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,1712,2725,2787,1221,28],"class_list":["post-10123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-gold-standard","tag-iowa","tag-jeffrey-bell","tag-monetary-policy","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10127,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10123\/revisions\/10127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}