Ron Paul .com

You are browsing the archives of Federal Reserve.

In this 1988 interview, Ron Paul talks about money, banking and the Federal Reserve, and predicts the current financial crisis.

Show: American Power Structure
Date: August 1988
Transcript:
Voiceover: American Power Structure. We’re joined by John Cone.
Frank Morrow: Ron there’s an old statement I’ve read heard about people saying, in Congress, that banks never lose.
Ron Paul: Well, I think [...]

At today’s House Financial Services Hearing, Ron Paul spoke for millions of outraged Americans when he accused the Federal Reserve of conducting its business in secret and of hiding important facts, such as the contents of its meetings with other central banks, from Congress and the public. He called on the banking cartel to stop [...]

The American Conservative published an excellent article by Thomas E. Woods about how Ron Paul’s efforts to abolish the Federal Reserve are gaining mainstream traction.
Fed Up!
The popular uprising against central banking
By Thomas E. Woods Jr.
The way Ron Paul tells it, his more than 30 years of speaking and writing about money, inflation, and the [...]

In his latest column, Ron Paul once again prescribes the only cure that could save America: Cut taxes, cut spending, bring our troops home, downsize government, abolish the Federal Reserve, return to sound money and start living within our means. — tmartin
Cures for Our Economic Disease
by Ron Paul
I have recently had several opportunities on various [...]

In a speech to the Mises Circle in Houston, Ron Paul recounts how the “biggest bubble of all history” was created, inflated, reinflated, and papered over, until it finally burst. He says that there is only a small amount of confidence left in the dollar, and describes the rapidly growing support for the movement to [...]

Bailouts are bad; the dollar will collapse if we don’t change our ways; eventually we’ll have to go back to a sound currency. Glenn Beck points out that Ron Paul has been talking about these issues for decades, but is anyone listening?

Show: Glenn Beck Program
Channel: Fox News
Date: 1/21/2009
Transcript:
Glenn Beck: Republican Congressman and former presidential [...]

In the first of a series of videos that will take us on a tour around Ron Paul’s Congressional office, the Congressman explains the dangers of hyperinflation and warns that it might eventually lead us towards totalitarianism and destruction.

Ron Paul: “This is a visual demonstration of what can happen with runaway inflation. It’s entitled ‘German [...]

On January 5, Ron Paul addressed the House Financial Services Committee’s hearing on the Madoff Ponzi scandal. He pointed out that Bernard Madoff was operating under the supervision of the SEC, that more regulation will only make the job of cunning fraudsters easier because they can claim to be approved by the government, and that [...]

The unholy alliance between self-important bureaucrats and failed bailout bankers continues to wreaks havoc upon the economy. Only a gold standard can prevent these charlatans from poisoning the entire world with their increasingly worthless dollars. In his latest column Ron Paul speaks truth to power and calls for the abolishment of the Federal Reserve. But [...]

Saturday afternoon Ron Paul addressed a crowd of about 500 people in front of the Fed building in downtown Houston. They had come together for one of many End the Fed demonstrations throughout the country.

Here’s a partial transcript of Ron Paul’s speech (slightly edited for clarity):
“It is a great event, and I understand that there [...]

Ron Paul questions Ben Bernanke about his secret meetings with other central bankers. What have they been talking about? Is the dollar finished and is there a new world currency on the agenda? What role is gold going to play, if any? Bernanke, while remaining evasive about the details of his meetings, denies the rumors [...]

Ron Paul was interviewed on CNN’s American Morning today. He responded to Alan Greenspan’s Testimony to Congress, criticized the former Federal Reserve Chairman’s contribution to the financial crisis, and talked about the upcoming election.