Public opinion polls consistently show the economy is one of the top issues, if not the top issue, for American voters. This may strike some as odd, since official government statistics show low unemployment and declining price inflation, suggesting the Federal...
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Why Should We Fight Wars for Ukraine and Israel?
by Ron Paul | Oct 21, 2024 | Featured Articles
When you take on the role of the world’s policeman, don’t be surprised when countries who cannot fight their own wars call “911.” That is exactly what is happening to the United States on two fronts and it is bankrupting our country, depleting the military that should...
Hurricane Response Proves Volunteerism is Better Than Authoritarianism
by Ron Paul | Oct 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
Following Hurricane Helene, many private helicopter pilots launched their own search and rescue missions. One would think government officials would welcome the help of these volunteers, but instead they harassed them and even threatened to arrest them! For example,...
American Neocons Get Their Iran War as Congress Sleeps
by Ron Paul | Oct 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
Over the weekend, the Commander of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), General Michael Kurilla, arrived in Israel to “coordinate” with the Israeli military and plan a military strike against Iran. Think about that for a moment: one of the highest-ranking officers in the...
Fed’s Rate Cut Helps Candidate Harris but Will Hurt President Harris (or Trump)
by Ron Paul | Sep 30, 2024 | Featured Articles
Many investors, businesses, and consumers cheered the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate cut since March of 2020. The Fed’s 50 basis points interest rate reduction was larger than many Fed watchers anticipated and was followed by suggestions that there are more...
Washington’s Ukraine Obsession is Going to Get Us All Killed!
by Ron Paul | Sep 23, 2024 | Featured Articles
Last week the world narrowly escaped likely nuclear destruction, as the Biden Administration considered Ukraine’s request to allow US missiles to strike deeply into Russian territory. Russian president Vladimir Putin warned, as the request was being considered, that...
Homeschooling is Still Gaining Popularity…Thanks to Woke ‘Educators’
by Ron Paul | Sep 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
One of the few areas where liberty made gains in the COVID lockdown era was the increase in homeschooling. Many parents started homeschooling out of frustration with the failure of “virtual learning” to provide children with a quality education. Other parents withdrew...
The First Steps Toward a Liberty Platform
by Ron Paul | Sep 9, 2024 | Featured Articles
Last weekend several hundred of us gathered in Washington, DC, at the Ron Paul Institute conference to again proclaim our dedication to the cause of liberty and our opposition to constant US government assaults on that liberty. Our collaborators included old friends...
Trump and Harris Ignore a Great Danger Facing America
by Ron Paul | Sep 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
The Penn Wharton Budget Model, a think tank headquartered at the University of Pennsylvania, recently released a study claiming former President Donald Trump’s economic plans would add about four trillion dollars to the national deficit over ten years while Vice...
Do We Finally Have a Peace Ticket?
by Ron Paul | Aug 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
Just as the Harris/Walz campaign was looking for a boost from the content-free Democratic National Convention last week, real drama broke out that pulled the country’s attention back toward Republican candidate Donald Trump. Rumors had been swirling for days that...
Donald Trump Does Not Know the ‘Correct’ Interest Rate
by Ron Paul | Aug 19, 2024 | Featured Articles
Former President and current Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump recently renewed his criticisms of the Federal Reserve. He suggested that, if he returns to the White House next year, he will push Congress to pass legislation giving the president at least a...
Tyranny in the UK – Can it Happen Here?
by Ron Paul | Aug 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
As the UK descends into tyranny, where just re-Tweeting something the government doesn’t like can land a person a multi-year jail sentence, Americans are wondering, “can it happen here?” After all, we have the guarantees of the First Amendment. But while we shake our...
America Reaches a Sad Milestone
by Ron Paul | Aug 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
Last week the national debt reached 35 trillion dollars, a mere seven months after the debt reached 34 trillion dollars. To put this in perspective, the national debt first reached one trillion dollars in October of 1981, almost 200 years after the Constitution’s...
Supreme Court Takes Two Steps Forward, One Step Back.
by Ron Paul | Jul 29, 2024 | Featured Articles
We can all probably agree that this has been one of the strangest Julys in memory. From the attempt on Trump’s Life to the Republican National Convention to the bizarre “coup” against Biden in the Democratic Party. With all this, it’s easy to forget some truly...
Republican Platform Ignores Real Causes of Inflation
by Ron Paul | Jul 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
The 2024 Republican platform promises that, if Donald Trump returns to the White House and Republicans gain complete control of Congress, they will reduce inflation. The platform contains some proposals, such as reducing regulations and extending the 2017 tax...
Why We’ll Never Know What Really Happened in Butler, PA
by Ron Paul | Jul 15, 2024 | Featured Articles
Just days after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, theories are flying from all directions. Many who ridiculed the “conspiracy theories” of conservatives are now suggesting the whole event was a set-up to boost Trump in the polls ahead of...
The Debate Should Be a Wake-Up Call For Americans
by Ron Paul | Jul 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
There were plenty of surprises in last week’s presidential debate. For one, Americans who rely on the mainstream media for their news learned that they had been lied to for the past three years about President Biden’s capability to do the job he was elected to do. The...
Stop Taxing Tips
by Ron Paul | Jun 24, 2024 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump recently promised that, if he wins the November election, he will support eliminating taxes on tips as part of his proposal to renew and expand the 2017 tax cuts. This tax law change would be a long overdue boost for millions of Americans. Tips often...
We Spent a Billion Dollars Fighting the Houthis…and Lost
by Ron Paul | Jun 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
Why does it seem the Pentagon is far better at spending money than actually putting together a successful operation? The failed “Operation Prosperity Guardian” and the disastrous floating Gaza pier are but two recent examples of enormously expensive initiatives that,...
Anti-Liberty Conservatives Want More Theft
by Ron Paul | Jun 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
American Compass, a think tank promoting a conservatism lacking even a rhetorical commitment to free markets, recently called for Republicans to support tax increases. The organization claims a GOP embrace of higher taxes will enable the uniparty’s left (Democratic)...
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