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Ron Paul: Fed’s Price Fixing Not Compatible With a Free Economy (Opening Statement)

By tmartin on March 17, 2010

Ron Paul attacks the Federal Reserve’s price fixing activities in his opening statement at the House Financial Services Committee hearing on bank supervision and monetary policy.

Location: House Financial Service Committee
Date: 03/17/2010

Posted in Federal Reserve, Ron Paul in Congress, Ron Paul's Speeches | Tagged House Financial Services Committee, Interest rates, Opening Statement, Price Fixing | 18 Responses

Ron Paul: Open the Federal Reserve’s Secret Archives!

By tmartin on February 25, 2010

Ron Paul launched his sharpest attack yet on the Federal Reserve, challenging Chairman Ben Bernanke to open up the Fed’s secret archives so that Congress and the public can find out what the enigmatic institution has been up to in recent decades.

Location: House Financial Services Committee
Event: Hearing on Monetary Policy and the State of the [...]

Posted in Federal Reserve, Ron Paul in Congress | Tagged Audit the Fed, House Financial Services Committee, Saddam Hussein, Secret Archives, Watergate | 3 Responses

Ron Paul on the Origin of “Moral Hazard”

By tmartin on February 25, 2010

Ron Paul exposed the hidden causes of moral hazard in his opening statement at the House Financial Services Committee’s hearing on “Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy”.

Location: House Financial Services Committee
Event: Hearing on Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy
Date: 02/24/2010
Transcript coming soon

Posted in Federal Reserve, Ron Paul in Congress, Ron Paul's Speeches | Tagged Hearing, House Financial Services Committee, Moral Hazard | 3 Responses

Ron Paul: Why We Must Audit the Federal Reserve

By tmartin on November 19, 2009

Ron Paul makes a strong case for auditing the Fed.

Date: 11/19/2009
Transcript
Barney Frank: Is there further discussion? The gentleman from Texas, Mr. Neugebauer.
Randy Neugebauer: Thank you very much. You know, I think one of the questions, simple questions here for many of is I think the Fed has gone way beyond just making monetary policy [...]

Posted in Federal Reserve, Ron Paul in Congress | Tagged Audit the Fed, House Financial Services Committee, HR 1207 | 2 Responses

House Financial Services Committee Debates Ron Paul’s Amendment to Audit the Fed

By tmartin on November 19, 2009

Later this afternoon, the House Financial Services Committee will be voting on the Paul-Grayson amendment (which is essentially the “Audit the Fed” bill HR 1207 in the form of an amendment), and the opposing Watt amendment to audit the Fed.
Over the course of today’s hearing, Chairman Barney Frank unsurprisingly came out in support of the [...]

Posted in Federal Reserve, Ron Paul in Congress | Tagged Audit the Fed, House Financial Services Committee, HR 1207 | 4 Responses

Important Audit the Fed Update by Ron Paul

By tmartin on October 31, 2009

In this Audit the Fed update, Ron Paul explains what is happening with HR 1207 in the Monetary Policy Subcommittee, describes his plan to protect HR 1207 in the full Financial Services Committee, and provides ideas on actions we can take to keep the bill from being watered down.

The 13 Democrats on the House Financial [...]

Posted in Federal Reserve, Ron Paul's Legislation, Ron Paul's Video Updates | Tagged Audit the Fed, House Financial Services Committee, HR 1207, Mel Watt | 9 Responses

Ron Paul: It’s Been A Busy Week In Washington

By tmartin on October 31, 2009

In his latest video update, Ron Paul reports on a recent House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing concerning Iran as well as a House Financial Services Committee hearing on financial regulations. He also comments on the latest GDP data.

Date: 10/30/2009
Transcript
Ron Paul: I’m Congressman Ron Paul and this is a weekly update for the Campaign for Liberty. [...]

Posted in Economy, Federal Reserve, Foreign Policy, Ron Paul's Video Updates | Tagged GDP, House Financial Services Committee, House Foreign Affairs Committee, Iran | 5 Responses

Ron Paul Questions Timothy Geithner

By tmartin on October 30, 2009

Venue: House Financial Services Committee
Topic: Systemic Regulation, Prudential Matters, Resolution Authority and Securitization
Date: 10/29/2009
Ron Paul: Mr. Secretary, more and more people today are looking critically at the Federal Reserve and wondering what’s going on. And, of course, the people are asking more questions and they want to know exactly what role the Federal Reserve has [...]

Posted in Federal Reserve, Monetary Policy, Ron Paul in Congress | Tagged House Financial Services Committee, Timothy Geithner | 5 Responses

HR 1207 Hearing

By tmartin on September 25, 2009

The House Financial Services Committee’s hearing on HR 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009, is now over. C-SPAN posted the full 3 hour recording of the hearing here.

Posted in Ron Paul in Congress, Ron Paul's Legislation | Tagged Audit the Fed, House Financial Services Committee, HR 1207 | 18 Responses

Ron Paul to Ben Bernanke: The Federal Reserve Is Already Politicized

By tmartin on July 21, 2009

“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 [...]

Posted in Federal Reserve, Ron Paul in Congress | Tagged Ben Bernanke, Debt Monetization, House Financial Services Committee, HR 1207, Inflation | 19 Responses

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