Has the gold standard become “a litmus test of GOP presidential candidates?” It is, according to Think Progress‘ Matthew “Big Media Matt” Yglesias.
The Iowa Tea Party’s statewide, 21-stop bus tour culminated in a rally on July 2 in Des Moines lit by the suddenly incandescent candidacy of Rep. Michele Bachmann. (Disclosure: Her presidential campaign has retained one of this columnist’s partners, Robert Heckman.) Monetary policy is showing up in the core platform of almost all the GOP aspirants, including Bachmann’s.
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