Silent Cal Speaks
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Call him Calvin Coolidge Cruz. Suddenly Senator Cruz, citing the president who delivered the full-employment economic boom known as the Roaring Twenties, is emerging as a man to watch in the Republican race. Two debates in a row, the senator from Texas declared for the gold standard and sound money, which are associated with high economic growth and low unemployment. He got in ahead of Rand Paul and any of the rest of the pack.
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