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Guilty until Proven Innocent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXJb-JkysEQ
Event: Financial Regulation Hearing – House Financial Services Committee
Channel: C-SPAN3
Date: 3/26/2009
Transcript:
Barney Frank: The gentleman from Texas.
Ron Paul: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Chairman in his opening statement talked about the problem being excessive leverage and I certainly agree with that and others refer to that as pure emitting of debt, and then we ran into [...]

Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, Glenn Beck on Freedom Watch

This Wednesday, Ron Paul joined Peter Schiff, Glenn Beck, Lew Rockwell, Shepard Smith, and David Boaz on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s online show “Freedom Watch” in a refreshing discussion about the latest economic and political developments.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByZ6g-syjVI
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIsQLl98KbM
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdGkSL45V7c
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNApArJxNmY
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e7807ud09A
Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3yBsExFtu0(Ron Paul appears in Part 6)

Channel: Fox News Strategy [...]

Ron Paul on Fox Business

Channel: Fox Business
Date: 3/24/2009
News Anchor: Today during the AIG hearing, Representative Ron Paul declared that free markets and capitalism weren’t working. Watch this.
Ron Paul: We had a system where the free market wasn’t working, we didn’t have capitalism. The allocation of capital came from the direction of the Federal Reserve and a lot of rules [...]

Ron Paul Questions Ben Bernanke on Free Markets vs. Crony Capitalism

Event: House Financial Services Committee Hearing
Channel: C-SPAN
Date: 3/24/2009
Transcript:
Barney Frank: The gentleman from Texas.
Ron Paul: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. When the chairman of the committee opened up the committee today, he suggested that we look backward as well as forward and that all of our problems didn’t come from January 20th on, and I agree with [...]

Ron Paul on Earmarks

On Tuesday, Ron Paul spoke on the House floor about the true nature of earmarks and how all spending should be “earmarked”, i.e. we should know how our money is being spent. He also promoted his bill H.R. 1207 which calls for an audit of the Federal Reserve.

Channel: C-SPAN
Date: 3/10/2009
Transcript:
Ron Paul: Thank you, Madame Speaker. [...]

Ron Paul Introduces Bill to Audit the Fed

February 26, 2009
Madame Speaker,
I rise to introduce the Federal Reserve Transparency Act. Throughout its nearly 100-year history, the Federal Reserve has presided over the near-complete destruction of the United States dollar. Since 1913 the dollar has lost over 95% of its purchasing power, aided and abetted by the Federal Reserve’s loose monetary policy. How long [...]

Ron Paul and Paul Volcker Discuss Fiat Currencies

In the “Hearing on Restoring the Economy: Strategies for Short-term and Long-term Change”, Ron Paul and Paul Volcker discuss the history, present and future of fiat currencies.

Date: 2/26/2009
Transcript:
Chairman: Mr. Paul for one minute?
Ron Paul: Thank you, Madam Chairman. I, too, hear my voice all the time and I’m sure the rest of you are tired [...]

The Time Has Come: Let’s End The Fed!

Ron Paul addresses Congress
Channel: C-SPAN
Date: 2/25/2008
Transcript:
Ron Paul: Mr. Speaker, the Federal Reserve is the culprit. It has delivered this crisis to us. The Federal Reserve’s low interest policy is a big mistake; it is not a panacea. Artificially low interest rates are achieved by inflating the money supply. Low interest rates penalize the thrifty, and [...]

Ron Paul: Credit Is Not Capital

YouTube Channel: Financial Services Republicans
Date: 2/25/2009
Transcript:
Ron Paul: Today the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board was before the Financial Services Committee. I did get a chance to ask him a question or two and I made the point that we can’t continue to work on the assumption that credit comes out of thin air, that [...]

Ron Paul: Why We Can’t Reinflate The Bubble

Opening Statement:

Transcript:
Ron Paul: Yesterday a report came out that said that the Consumer Confidence Index was down to 25. Sometimes I think that might be overly optimistic, but nevertheless I think that vote of confidence really is a reflection on our financial system, our monetary policy, our spending policies here in Congress, and then they [...]

End The Fed, Or At Least Repeal Its Monopoly Powers

In his latest column Ron Paul announces that he will soon introduce legislation requiring an audit of the Federal Reserve. If the audit reveals what he suspects, he will strongly urge Congress to abolish the Federal Reserve. But if neither of the above happens, Congress could at least repeal legal tender laws, thereby ending the [...]

Stimulus Bill: An Atrocious Way To Legislate

Date: 02/13/2009
Transcript:
Ron Paul: “I just left the House floor and I voted against the so-called stimulus package. Obviously, it’s not going to stimulate anything other than the growth of big government. It looks like it will not be difficult to pass, and the Democrats have the vote. One thing I could say about the Republicans, [...]