The issue has been raised in articles and columns on occasion, including by Syracuse Post-Standard outdoors writer Dave Figura.

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Sally MagnussonI began my career as a reporter on the Scotsman newspaper in Edinburgh, moving on to the now defunct Sunday Standard in Glasgow as a feature writer.

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Chrsitoph Prantner, a writer for Austrian paper Der Standard finds both pro- and anti-EU ("EU-freundlich und EU-feindlich") messages in the speech.

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Reagan-era economic growth, and gold standard proponents such as financier and Gold Commissioner Lewis Lehrman and author and former Kemp presidential co-chair Jeffrey Bell (with both of whom this writer is professionally associated) have been notable in their advocacy for a 21st century gold standard, as has such a respected figure as Steve Forbes.

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Lehrman, chairman of the Lehrman Insitute (with which this writer is professionally associated), and Reagan Gold Commissioner, fresh from a private discussion on the gold standard with a well-respected U.S. Senator.

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Lehrman (with whom this writer is professionally associated via American Principles Project and the Lehrman Institute) has provided with The True Gold Standard: A Monetary Reform Plan Without Official Reserve Currencies.

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