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By RonPaul.com on September 22, 2008
by Ron Paul Last week I discussed how sound money contributes to peaceful relationships around the world. It is not gold, in and of itself that excites me, but the many benefits of sound money. Another benefit is financial security. Can sound money give you financial security? There is something very comforting in knowing that [...]
Posted in Monetary Policy, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Financial Security, Inflation, Social Security, Weimar Germany |
By RonPaul.com on September 18, 2008
“Our problems start with the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is a monopoly and it controls interest rates artificially low, causing people to make mistakes. That’s the basic source. But then on top of that in the housing market we had the Community Reinvestment Act which told investors that they had to loan to risky [...]
Posted in Monetary Policy | Tagged Bailouts, Dollar, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis |
By RonPaul.com on September 16, 2008
by Ron Paul Many who agree with me on a lot of other issues, do not understand my enthusiasm for gold and sound money or why I spend so much time studying and talking about monetary policy. It’s true that I talk about money differently than most, but the fact is sound money offers many [...]
Posted in Monetary Policy, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Gold, Sound money |
By Mike Cuneo on September 9, 2008
The recent market volatility brings my mind back to the time after September 11, 2001, and to a time earlier, around the bursting of the dotcom bubble which came to a head around mid-March of 2000. Everyone, from travel agent to janitor, wants to know what the market closed at. Was the Dow up 500 [...]
Posted in Monetary Policy | Tagged Finance, Short Selling |
By lankybrit76 on August 6, 2008
Growing up as a child I picked up a few useful life tips that helped shape the person I am today. They were simple, some would say common sense things such as hot things burn skin, loud things hurt ears and alcoholic things… well they do all sorts of things that I don’t have time [...]
Posted in Economy, Monetary Policy | Tagged budget deficit |
By RonPaul.com on August 5, 2008
In his latest essay Dr. Ron Paul accurately diagnoses the government’s money dilemma and prescribes a painful but effective cure. We the people are in agreement, but our decadent politicians and bankers have decided to prolong the “easy credit” bonanza for as long as they possibly can. Are they oblivious to the risk of total [...]
Posted in Monetary Policy, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Banking, Financial Crisis, Inflation |
By RonPaul.com on July 16, 2008
Ron Paul has asserted for many years that inflation is a tax that benefits those who get all that freshly printed money first, and harms everyone else. Today, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke agreed with that assertion, but failed to present a viable plan for saving the collapsing dollar: The Fed is now in an impossible [...]
Posted in Economy, Monetary Policy | Tagged Ben Bernanke, Dollar, Economy, Federal Reserve, Inflation, Jim Rogers |
By RonPaul.com on July 13, 2008
Who is in charge of the dollar? The Federal Reserve says it’s the Treasury Department and the Treasury Department says it’s the Federal Reserve. Watch Ron Paul try to get a response from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Later, Ron Paul recorded the following comments:
Posted in Monetary Policy | Tagged Devaluation, Dollar, Federal Reserve, Inflation |
By RonPaul.com on June 27, 2008
In a passionate appeal to Congress Ron Paul unmasked the real causes of rising energy prices: inflation, and fear about a possible attack on Iran by Israel and/or the US. He went on to criticize Israel’s massive war propaganda effort which is based on what may well turn out to be lies, and warned against [...]
Posted in Foreign Policy, Monetary Policy | Tagged Energy Prices, Foreign Policy, Inflation, Iran, Israel |
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