August 30, 2019

Puerto Rico Financial Oversight Board Was Unconstitutionally Appointed

Puerto Rico is in a financial mess that was only exacerbated by the way Congress created the board charged with fixing the problem. The Supreme Court will hear argument in Financial Oversight & Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC on October 15.

• Puerto Rico Financial Oversight Board Was Unconstitutionally Appointed

  By Ilya Shapiro and Sam Spiegelman

On Targeting the Price of Gold

Thanks to President’s Trump’s picks for prospective Fed Board nominees, the subject of gold price targeting (or a gold “price rule”) is getting attention once again.

• On Targeting the Price of Gold

  By George Selgin

MULTIMEDIA

The Galling Push for a Student Debt Bailout

Leading Democratic presidential contenders want the feds to bail out students with school debt. What about the young people who made more modest choices? Christian Barnard of the Reason Foundation comments.

• Podcast: The Galling Push for a Student Debt Bailout

  Featuring Christian Barnard and Caleb O. Brown