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At today’s House Financial Services Committee hearing Ron Paul asked Laurence Ball, Larry Meyer, Marvin Goodspeed and John Taylor about inflation, the government’s role in the value of money, and the Federal Reserve’s monetization of debt. Location: House Financial Services Committee Hearing: Unwinding Emergency Federal Reserve Liquidity Programs and Implications for Economic Recovery Date: 03/25/2010 [...]
At today’s House Financial Services Committee hearing Ron Paul criticized the Federal Reserve’s policy of hiding information about troubled banks from the public. The Congressman then asked Ben Bernanke about the Fed’s balance sheet and inquired as to why the Fed engages in price fixing (of interest rates) even though wage and price controls do [...]
Ron Paul questioned Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner today on the Federal Reserve’s price fixing activities and the moral hazard generated by a “lender of last resort” that, in cooperation with the government, picks up the pieces and bails out insolvent banks and companies. Geithner agreed that we need to deal with the problem of moral [...]
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 Transcript Ron Paul: This is an important day because this is the day that FOMC met and the markets were hanging in [...]
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 [...]
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 Ron Paul: Chairman Bernanke, I’m interested in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
“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 [...]
Event: House Financial Services Committee Hearing Date: July 21, 2009 Transcript Ron Paul: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, Chairman Bernanke. The Federal Reserve in collaboration with the giant banks has created the greatest financial crisis the world has ever seen. The foolish notion that unlimited amounts of money and credit created out of thin [...]
Venue: House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Hearing: Regulatory Restructuring: Safeguarding Consumer Protection and the Role of the Federal Reserve Date: 7/16/2009 Jim Carr’s complete testimony (pdf) Ron Paul: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a question for Mr. Carr on how optimistic he might be about what we’re trying to [...]
Venue: House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Hearing: Regulatory Restructuring: Safeguarding Consumer Protection and the Role of the Federal Reserve Date: 7/16/2009 Ron Paul: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank you for holding these hearings because I think they’re very important and the subject, Consumer Protection and the Role [...]
In his opening statement at a hearing entitled “Regulatory Restructuring: Balancing the Independence of the Federal Reserve in Monetary Policy with Systemic Risk Regulation“, held on July 9, 2009 at the House Financial Service Committee’s Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology, Ron Paul explained that his “Audit the Fed” bill HR 1207 won’t affect [...]
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