Peter St. Onge

Charlotte

North Carolina Opinion Editor at The Charlotte Observer

North Carolina Opinion Editor at The News & Observer

North Carolina Opinion Editor at The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC)

McClatchy Opinion Editor, leading opinion teams across McClatchy markets. Also: editorial page editor for Charlotte Observer, News & Observer in Raleigh.

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Articles

Elon: Audit the Fed

1 month ago | enterstageright.com | Peter St. Onge

Elon: Audit the Fed By Peter St. Onge web posted March 3, 2025 Last month Elon Musk suggested DOGE could audit the Mother of Slush Funds, the Federal Reserve. He even suggested Ron Paul could lead the team. DOGE has already found at least $55 billion in waste and fraud. The Fed could ramp that up ten-fold. "Less Oversight than the CIA"Economist Murray Rothbard, in his book The Case Against the Fed, famously noted the Federal Reserve has less oversight than the CIA.
Elon: Audit the Fed

1 month ago | lewrockwell.com | Peter St. Onge

Last week Elon Musk suggested DOGE could audit the Mother of Slush Funds, the Federal Reserve. He even suggested Ron Paul could lead the team. DOGE has already found at least $55 billion in waste and fraud. The Fed could ramp that up ten-fold. “Less Oversight than the CIA”Economist Murray Rothbard, in his book The Case Against the Fed, famously noted the Federal Reserve has less oversight than the CIA.
Elon: Audit the Fed

1 month ago | gold-eagle.com | Peter St. Onge

Last week Elon Musk suggested DOGE could audit the Mother of Slush Funds, the Federal Reserve. He even suggested Ron Paul could lead the team. DOGE has already found at least $55 billion in waste and fraud. The Fed could ramp that up ten-fold. “Less Oversight than the CIA”Economist Murray Rothbard, in his book The Case Against the Fed, famously noted the Federal Reserve has less oversight than the CIA.
Meet Andrew Dunn, a new conservative voice on our North Carolina opinion pages

2 months ago | charlotteobserver.com | Peter St. Onge

Diversity may be a fraught term right now, but it's something we continue to strive for on our opinion pages. That includes ideological diversity, and it's why we've added new regular center-right voices in the past few years, including former Republican NC Gov. Jim Martin and Matt Wylie, a GOP consultant who provided smart commentary on the 2024 election.
How to Reduce Housing Costs

Dec 23, 2024 | dailysignal.com | Peter St. Onge

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Can Donald Trump reduce house prices? A recent study by Redfin found that millions of Americans are skipping meals, selling belongings, and even delaying medical care to afford housing. Three in four Americans making less than $50,000—nearly half of Americans make less than $50,000—say they “regularly struggle” to keep a roof over their head.
Trump’s Bank Deregulation

Dec 21, 2024 | dailysignal.com | Peter St. Onge

Donald Trump wants to unchain the financial sector to flood lending into the economy. Will it boost growth? Or will it boost inflation? The Wall Street Journal recently summed up Trump’s plans to eliminate overlap, duplication, and regulations that shut out competitors and reduce lending. Specific things he wants to get rid of include the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which tech pioneer Marc Andreessen characterized as “terrorizing financial institutions” with nuisance attacks.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Jobs Numbers

Dec 11, 2024 | dailysignal.com | Peter St. Onge

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. New job numbers are out and—hilariously—payrolls jumped 227,000, yet persons employed dropped 355,000. Are they just making it up? The numbers are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which—thanks to the power of imagination—reports that jobs are booming, yet the unemployment rate is … worse, rising to 4.2%.
Trump Threatens Tariffs

Dec 3, 2024 | dailysignal.com | Peter St. Onge

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. It turns out the four-year border crisis took a single phone call to fix, suggesting maybe they didn’t want to fix it. Last week, President-elect Donald Trump fixed the border by announcing tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China unless their governments start controlling the border and fentanyl trafficking.
How to end the Fed

Dec 1, 2024 | enterstageright.com | Peter St. Onge

How to end the Fed By Peter St. Onge web posted December 2, 2024 How can we End the Fed... Without a government-licensed counterfeiter, would we be eating cat food? There's an entire industry dedicated to pumping out Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt of the post-apocalyptic dystopia that would descend upon the fair republic if we cancel the Fed's counterfeiting license. So, what would actually happen? Ending the Fed Isn't Science FictionFirst thing, it's not science fiction.
How to End the Fed

Nov 30, 2024 | gold-eagle.com | Peter St. Onge

How can we End the Fed... Without a government-licensed counterfeiter, would we be eating cat food? There's an entire industry dedicated to pumping out Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt of the post-apocalyptic dystopia that would descend upon the fair republic if we cancel the Fed's counterfeiting license. So, what would actually happen? Ending the Fed Isn’t Science FictionFirst thing, it's not science fiction. America didn't have a central bank for its first 140 years.