Former Federal Reserve official Bill Dudley’s recent op-ed calling for the Federal Reserve to implement policies that will damage President Trump’s reelection campaign states that such action would be unprecedented. Dudley claims the Federal Reserve bases its policies...
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Forget the Russians: It’s the Federal Reserve Seeking to Meddle in Our Elections
by Ron Paul | Sep 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
The US Constitution never granted the federal government authority to create a central bank. The Founders, having lived through hyperinflation themselves, understood that government should never have a printing press at its disposal. But from the very beginning of...
Who Are The Real Extremists?
by Ron Paul | Aug 26, 2019 | Featured Articles
The recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton have re-ignited efforts to pass “Red Flag” laws, which allow the government to take away a person’s guns without due process, and expanded background checks on those wishing to purchase a gun. Some supporters of these...
Are Recessions Inevitable?
by Ron Paul | Aug 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
Stocks fell last week following news that the yield curve on Treasury notes had inverted. This means that a short-term Treasury note was paying higher interest rates than long-term Treasury note. An inverted yield curve is widely seen as a sign of an impending...
Endgame for the Fed?
by Ron Paul | Aug 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Federal Reserve, responding to concerns about the economy and the stock market, and perhaps to criticisms by President Trump, recently changed course on interest rates by cutting its “benchmark” rate from 2.25 percent to two percent. President Trump responded to...
Congress Spending Surge is National Suicide
by Ron Paul | Aug 5, 2019 | Featured Articles
With a national debt approaching $23 trillion and a trillion dollar deficit for this year alone, Congress last week decided to double down on suicidal spending, passing a two year budget that has the United States careening toward catastrophe. While we cannot say...
True Budget Hawks are Foreign Policy Doves
by Ron Paul | Jul 29, 2019 | Featured Articles
During my presidential campaigns, well-meaning supporters would sometimes suggest I stop emphasizing opposition to overseas intervention and focus on fiscal issues. I disregarded the advice, not only because adopting a noninterventionist foreign policy is crucial to...
Will Persian Gulf ‘Tanker War’ Become a Shooting War?
by Ron Paul | Jul 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
The UK got a taste of its own medicine this week as Iran seized a British tanker, the Stena Impero, just two weeks after UK Royal Marines seized a tanker near Gibraltar carrying two million barrels of Iranian oil. As could be predicted, the US and UK media are...
Conservatives Against Liberty
by Ron Paul | Jul 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
Recently several prominent social and populist conservatives have attacked libertarianism. These conservatives, some of whom are allies in the fight against our hyper-interventionist foreign policy, blame libertarianism for a variety of social and economic ills. The...
Frog-Marching Trump Toward War on Iran
by Ron Paul | Jul 8, 2019 | Featured Articles
Hypocrisy seems to have become a defining characteristic of US foreign policy, especially when it comes to Iran. After breaking the Iran deal last year and, de facto, forcing the Europeans to violate the deal in May, the US Administration is now complaining that Iran...
Media and Politicians Ignore Oncoming Financial Crisis
by Ron Paul | Jul 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
The mainstream media was too busy obsessing over Russiagate to notice that, according to an annual Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees report, the Social Security trust fund will run out of money by 2035. The trustees also reported that the Medicare...
Boxed in by Neocons and the Media, Will Trump Launch Iran War?
by Ron Paul | Jun 24, 2019 | Featured Articles
President Trump did the smart thing last week by calling off a US airstrike on Iran over the downing of an American spy drone near or within Iranian territorial waters. According to press reports, the president over-ruled virtually all his top advisors – Bolton,...
Medical IDs: Enemy of Privacy, Liberty, and Health
by Ron Paul | Jun 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
Last week, the House of Representatives voted in favor of a Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill amendment to repeal the prohibition on the use of federal funds to create a “unique patient identifier.” Unless this prohibition, which I...
The War Crimes That Don’t Get Punished
by Ron Paul | Jun 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) found himself in hot water recently over comments he made in defense of Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher, who faces war crimes charges over his alleged conduct while serving in combat overseas. Gallagher is charged with stabbing a 15 year old ISIS...
Hey Trump: Remember Wikileaks?
by Ron Paul | Jun 3, 2019 | Featured Articles
Last week in an episode of my daily Ron Paul Liberty Report we discussed whether the US and British government were actually trying to kill jailed Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange. More than seven years ago Assange was granted asylum from the government of Ecuador...
Congress Fiddles While Trump Lurches Toward War on Iran
by Ron Paul | May 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
Congress, and particularly the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, seems determined to see the end of the Trump Administration before the 2020 vote. Although House Speaker Pelosi claims she is not seeking impeachment, she’s accusing the president of...
Violence Against Women Act Does Violence to the Constitution
by Ron Paul | May 20, 2019 | Featured Articles
A common trick of big-government loving politicians is to give legislation names so appealing that it seems no reasonable person could oppose it. The truth is, the more unobjectionable the title, the more objectionable the content. Two well-known examples are the...
Losing Income Tax Privacy Is a Real Danger
by Ron Paul | May 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
Last week the New York Times published some of President Trump’s 1980s and 1990s tax returns information. The information detailed President Trump’s financial difficulties during that time. While you would not know it from reading some media reports, this is old news....
A Nuclear War? Over Venezuela?
by Ron Paul | May 6, 2019 | Featured Articles
Is President Trump about to invade Venezuela? His advisors keep telling us in ever-stronger terms that “all options are on the table” and that US military intervention to restore Venezuela’s constitution “may be necessary.” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was on the...
Why is Maria Butina in Prison?
by Ron Paul | Apr 29, 2019 | Featured Articles
Russian gun rights activist and graduate exchange student Maria Butina was sentenced to 18 months in prison last week for “conspiracy to act as a foreign agent without registering.” Her “crime” was to work to make connections among American gun rights activists in...
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