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Ron Paul: Congress Should Read Bills Before Voting on Them
10 ResponsesIs Congress just a decadent caricature of its former self, timidly executing the secret orders of the hidden elite? Sometimes it appears that way, especially when congressmen and women obediently vote on a bill without reading it and without having had the opportunity to do so, as it was made available just hours before. Ron [...]
Fed Audit Will Show What They’re Hiding
326 ResponsesIn this speech to Congress, Ron Paul refutes Ben Bernanke’s interpretation of HR 1207, the bill to audit the Federal Reserve, and explains why only an audit will protect the public’s interest. Date: 7/30/2009 Ron Paul: Mr. Speaker, the big guns have lined up against HR 1207, the bill to audit the Federal Reserve. What [...]
Ron Paul to Ben Bernanke: The Federal Reserve Is Already Politicized
19 Responses“What about today? Interest rates are artificially low. Could there be any political pressure to keep interest rates artificially low? Historically, that’s been well known, it’s been documented and written about, how other Federal Reserve chairmen, they were on the verge of reappointment and they know the president, and all of a sudden… so, it’s [...]
Ron Paul’s Opening Statement: The Federal Reserve Created the Crisis
10 ResponsesEvent: House Financial Services Committee Hearing Date: July 21, 2009 Transcript Ron Paul: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, Chairman Bernanke. The Federal Reserve in collaboration with the giant banks has created the greatest financial crisis the world has ever seen. The foolish notion that unlimited amounts of money and credit created out of thin [...]
Ron Paul Questions Jim Carr of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition
30 ResponsesVenue: House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Hearing: Regulatory Restructuring: Safeguarding Consumer Protection and the Role of the Federal Reserve Date: 7/16/2009 Jim Carr’s complete testimony (pdf) Ron Paul: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a question for Mr. Carr on how optimistic he might be about what we’re trying to [...]
Ron Paul to Congress: You want to protect consumers? Try honest money.
5 ResponsesVenue: House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Hearing: Regulatory Restructuring: Safeguarding Consumer Protection and the Role of the Federal Reserve Date: 7/16/2009 Ron Paul: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank you for holding these hearings because I think they’re very important and the subject, Consumer Protection and the Role [...]
Ron Paul Questions Dr. Meltzer and Dr. Galbraith on Federal Reserve Transparency
15 ResponsesDr. Allan Meltzer, The Allan H. Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University – Testimony Dr. James K. Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/ Business Relations and Professor of Government, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas – Testimony (pdf) Event: Regulatory Restructuring: Balancing the Independence [...]
Ron Paul to Fed Vice-Chairman: Your “Independence” is a Code Word for “Secrecy”
5 ResponsesEvent: Regulatory Restructuring: Balancing the Independence of the Federal Reserve in Monetary Policy with Systemic Risk Regulation Venue: House Financial Service Committee’s Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Date: 7/9/2009 Mel Watt: My time has expired, and I’ll recognize the gentleman from Texas for five minutes. Ron Paul: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Sometimes definition [...]
Ron Paul to Federal Reserve: HR 1207 Won’t Affect Monetary Policy
7 ResponsesIn his opening statement at a hearing entitled “Regulatory Restructuring: Balancing the Independence of the Federal Reserve in Monetary Policy with Systemic Risk Regulation“, held on July 9, 2009 at the House Financial Service Committee’s Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology, Ron Paul explained that his “Audit the Fed” bill HR 1207 won’t affect [...]
