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Ron Paul on Austrian Economics vs. Keynesian Economics

Show: Morning Joe
Channel: MSNBC
Date: 5/15/2009
Transcript
Joe Scarborough: Congressman, it’s great to see you again.
Ron Paul: Thank you.
Joe Scarborough: Any response to Nancy Pelosi accusing the CIA of lying to her yesterday?
Joe Scarborough: Well, I think it’s great theater and all this excitement over the torture and the CIA, I think, is very beneficial because it [...]

Ron Paul on Secession – CNN American Morning

Date: 4/21/2009
Show: American Morning
Channel: CNN
Transcript:
Commentator: What would happen if Texas filed for a divorce from the United States? Congressman Ron Paul thinks the idea of Texas leaving the Union should be taken seriously. He will tell us why when we talk to him live, coming up. It’s 23 minutes now after the hour.
Kiran Chetry: Well, [...]

Ron Paul on the Jim Bohannon Show

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQhsh3f3tkI
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQzPItEbLcA
Show: Jim Bohannon Show
Host: Dimitri Vassilaros
Date: 3/24/2009
Transcript:
Dimitri Vassilaros: I’m Dimitri Vassilaros, guest host. I’m a talk host on News Radio 1020 KDKA here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and an editorial page writer for The Pittsburgh Tribune Review.
While no one doubts that some major steps are needed to return the economy to stability, there are [...]

Stimulus Will Weaken The Dollar

In Monday’s conversation with Clear Channel’s Paul Westcott, Ron Paul warns that the stimulus package will weaken the dollar and lead to rising inflation over the next 6 to 12 months.

Channel: Clear Channel Radio
Date: 02/09/2009
Transcript:
Paul Westcott: We are on the phone now with Texas Congressman Ron Paul. Dr. Paul, thank you so much for being [...]

A Fresh Approach To Solving The Crisis

In this globalized world we must remember that it’s not just the US that’s going down, it’s the whole world. Have you seen any good news from any country in the last six months or so? Strain yourself and you might dredge some iota of optimism from somewhere, but in general it’s wishful thinking.
President Obama [...]

Ron Paul Debates MSNBC’s Panel of Experts

In a seemingly unbridgeable clash of two widely divergent world views, Ron Paul talks with three experts on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, repeating his assertion that we’re on the wrong path and that printing more money will eventually destroy the dollar.

Source: Morning Joe
Channel: MSNBC
Date: 1/27/2009
Transcript:
Host: Educate please this “panel of experts” here. And I say [...]

Did Bin Laden Bring America To Its Knees?

We are handling our economy exactly as terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden wanted us to. His plan was to bog us down overseas, bankrupt our country and diminish our morale, says Ron Paul. The Congressman suggests the following solution:

Change our foreign policy so that we can bring our troops home
Get back to where the budget [...]

Ron Paul: Crisis not caused by Free Markets

Ron Paul is interviewed on CNN American Morning and explains that “The best regulation is through the free market and to blame the free market for this calamity is an [...] intellectual error that has to be changed.”

Source: CNN American Morning
Date: 1/27/2009
Transcript:
Kirin Chetry: Timothy Geithner has his work cut out for him, certainly more [...]

Fool Me Once…

In his latest column Ron Paul compares the new $825 billion “stimulus package” to the much-hated 2008 TARP bailout, where a bunch of failed bankers extorted hundreds of billions of dollars from a scared Congress operating under the influence of vicious lies, empty promises, and even threats of civil unrest and martial law. Unfortunately, it [...]

Bad Bank + Bad Debt + Bad Bankers = Bad Idea

In his latest speech to Congress, Ron Paul points out that allowing the liquidation of bad debt is politically unacceptable, but the alternative – dumping everything on the taxpayer – is even worse. It’s interesting that there is even such a thing as “politically unacceptable” in this day and age. One one hand, that’s good [...]

America’s Strength Is Freedom, Not Government

In his latest column Ron Paul reminds us that freedom is our strength, while government is our weakness. Those who announce grand plans to build roads and bridges and banks and jobs and wind farms can only do so with our money as they do not own any real assets. All they can do is [...]

What comes after the auto bailout?

Earlier today Ron Paul was interviewed about the auto bailout and a potential homeowner bailout on Newsradio AM 740 KTRH, one of Houston’s most popular radio stations. Listen to the interview below.