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George Melloan

George Melloan

George Melloan

George Melloan retired in after a 54-year writing and editing career at The Wall Street Journal. In his last assignment he was Deputy Editor, International, of the editorial page and author of a weekly op-ed column titled Global View. He moved to New York in 1962 to join the Journal’s Page One department as an editor and rewrite specialist. From 1966 to 1970 he was a foreign correspondent based in London, covering such major stories as the Six-Day War in the Middle East, the Biafran War in Nigeria and an attempted economic reform in the Soviet Union. After joining the editorial page in New York in 1970, Mr. Melloan became deputy editor in 1973. In 1990, he took... Read full bio

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New York Sun, February 11, 2013
...to levels it would once have been hard even to dream about. Our central bank is exposed, as George Melloan wrote in a column in these pages called “The Fed’s Worse Fear,” to the bond market. More than a dozen states are eying making gold and silver...
Zero Hedge, February 7, 2013
...From an op-ed by George Melloan, posted in the WSJ, and can be read in full here The Fed's Asset-Inflation Machine Asset inflation often produces something called "wealth illusion," the belief that pricier...
Mises.org, February 7, 2013
...George Melloan’s “The Fed’s Asset-Inflation Machine” in today’s Wall Street Journal, while not mentioning Austrian economics, provides some very Austrian sounding analysis of the impact of Fed policy...
RoadRunner, January 9, 2013
...George Melloan The year-end "fiscal cliff" tax deal sent shivers through the bond market, driving the price of 10-year Treasurys to the lowest level since April. There was a good reason...
RoadRunner, January 9, 2013
...George Melloan The year-end "fiscal cliff" tax deal sent shivers through the bond market, driving the price of 10-year Treasurys to the lowest level since April. There was a good reason...
RoadRunner, August 31, 2012
...George Melloan ABC, NBC and CBS were present at the Republican convention in Tampa this week, but their broadcasters more resembled party crashers than the gods of the machinery who presided...
Time, August 29, 2012
...Cato Institute last fall, speakers denounced our current policy of "fiat money" with the fervor of preachers. As George Melloan observed in the American Spectator, "the consensus view [as the conference] seemed to be that in these parlous times a return...