sound currency

No debate whatsoever about reducing inflation and the deficit, paying off the debt, raising interest rates so as to not throttle savers and senior citizens, maintaining a sound currency.

He consistently argued that a sound currency was critical to a functioning free economy.

That decision—stay with a sound currency controlled by a far-away European central bank, or return to a national currency issued in Athens—is a choice about whether or not to accept basic economics. 

That’s why the 1978 Humphrey-Hawkins Act proved so dangerous to the national credit, for it charged the U.S. central bank—the Federal Reserve—with the impossible, contradictory task of balancing the economic need for a sound currency with the political desire for full employment.

I would suggest the simpler Hamiltonian course of repealing Humphrey-Hawkins, giving the Fed responsibility and regulatory powers only to ensure a sound currency, and insulating it as much as possible from meddling by government, now more fiscally profligate than usual.