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By RonPaul.com on January 7, 2010
Congressman Ron Paul issued the following statement regarding recent revelations that then New York Fed Chair Timothy Geithner urged AIG to avoid disclosing to the SEC details of agreements with banks that bailed out credit default swap counterparties such as Goldman Sachs: “The new details revealed today regarding AIG’s bailout in 2008 come as no [...]
Posted in Federal Reserve, Ron Paul's Writings | Tagged AIG, Bailout, SEC, Secrecy, Timothy Geithner |
By RonPaul.com on January 4, 2010
by Ron Paul This past week we celebrated the end of what most people agree was a decade best forgotten. New York Times columnist and leading Keynesian economist Paul Krugman called it the Big Zero in a recent column. He wrote that “there was a whole lot of nothing going on in measures of economic [...]
Posted in Economy, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Barnie Madoff, Keynes, Keynesian Economics, Keynesianism, Krugman, Sarbanes-Oxley |
By RonPaul.com on December 28, 2009
Healthcare Reform is a Lump of Coal by Ron Paul Last week on Christmas Eve, after many backroom deals were made, the Senate passed the healthcare reform bill with a strictly partisan vote. I was pleased that my colleagues in the GOP are on the right side of this bill. Although this vote was a [...]
Posted in Health Care, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Healthcare Reform, Senate |
By RonPaul.com on December 22, 2009
Iran Sanctions are Precursor to War by Ron Paul Last week the House overwhelmingly approved a measure to put a new round of sanctions on Iran. If this measure passes the Senate, the United States could no longer do business with anyone who sold refined petroleum products to Iran or helped them develop their ability [...]
Posted in Foreign Policy, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged HR 2194, Iran, Isolationism, Sanctions, War |
By RonPaul.com on December 15, 2009
The Fed’s Money Monopoly by Ron Paul Last week, in the name of protecting the little guy from Wall Street, the House passed HR 4173 to increase the little guy’s false sense of security in the financial system. This mammoth piece of legislation would massively increase government regulation and oversight in the banking industry under [...]
Posted in Ron Paul's Legislation, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Break the Monopoly, Free Competition in Currency Act, HR 4173, HR 4248 |
By RonPaul.com on December 8, 2009
Who Wants War? by Ron Paul If anyone still doubted that this administration’s foreign policy would bring any kind of change, this week’s debate on Afghanistan should remove all doubt. The President’s stated justifications for sending more troops to Afghanistan and escalating war amount to little more than recycling all the false reasons we began [...]
Posted in Foreign Policy, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Afghanistan, Eisenhower, Military-Industrial Complex, Obama, War Profiteering |
By RonPaul.com on December 1, 2009
by Ron Paul The U.S. Preventive Task Force caused quite a stir recently when they revised their recommendations on the frequency and age for women to get mammograms. Many have speculated on the timing for this government-funded report, with the Senate vote on health care looming, and cost estimates being watched closely. Just the hint [...]
Posted in Health Care, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Bureaucracy, Freedom, Health, Mammograms |
By RonPaul.com on November 19, 2009
Trillion-dollar interventions in the economy merit scrutiny by taxpayers and their representatives. by Ron Paul and Jim DeMint For nearly a century the Federal Reserve has operated in the shadows, away from the prying eyes of Congress, journalists and the American people. Created in 1913, the Fed was given enormous responsibility to protect the value [...]
Posted in Federal Reserve, Ron Paul's Writings | Tagged Audit the Fed, Jim DeMint, Wall Street Journal |
By RonPaul.com on November 16, 2009
Competition With the Government? by Ron Paul Last Saturday many concerned Americans watched in horror as the House passed the healthcare reform bill. If this bill makes it through the Senate, it would massively overhaul the way healthcare is delivered in this country. Today, obviously, we don’t have a perfect system, but this legislation takes [...]
Posted in Health Care, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Competition, Free Market, Government, Healthcare Reform, Obamacare |