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Trump’s Promised ‘New Foreign Policy’ Must Abandon Regime Change for Iran
by Ron Paul | Dec 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
President-elect Donald Trump told a Cincinnati audience this week that he intends to make some big changes in US foreign policy. During his “thank you” tour in the midwest, Trump had this to say: We will pursue a new foreign policy that finally learns from the...
To Really ‘Make America Great Again,’ End the Fed!
by Ron Paul | Nov 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
Former Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher recently gave a speech identifying the Federal Reserve’s easy money/low interest rate policies as a source of the public anger that propelled Donald Trump into the White House. Mr. Fisher is certainly correct...
Education System Broken: Let’s Try ‘Ed-Exit’
by Ron Paul | Nov 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan recently signed an executive order forbidding Maryland public schools from beginning classes before Labor Day. Governor Hogan’s executive order benefits businesses in Maryland’s coastal areas that lose school-aged summer employees and...
Memo to the Next Administration: Defense Spending Must Be For Actual Defense
by Ron Paul | Nov 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
In a disturbing indication of how difficult it would be to bring military spending in line with actual threats overseas, House Armed Services Chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry (R – TX) told President Obama last week that his war funding request of $11.6 billion for the...
Regardless of How America Votes, Americans Want a Different Foreign Policy
by Ron Paul | Nov 7, 2016 | Featured Articles
I have said throughout this presidential campaign that it doesn’t matter much which candidate wins. Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are authoritarians and neither can be expected to roll back the leviathan state that destroys our civil liberties at home while...
Blame Government, Not Markets for Monopoly
by Ron Paul | Oct 31, 2016 | Featured Articles
When Time-Warner announced it planned to merge with another major communications firm, many feared the new company would exercise near-total monopoly power. These concerns led some to call for government action to block the merger in order to protect both...
Obama’s Pivot to Asia Hits a Roadblock in the Philippines
by Ron Paul | Oct 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
While the mainstream media continues its obsessive reporting on the mud-slinging campaign for the White House, a dramatic development in China last week brought President Obama’s “pivot to Asia” to a sudden halt. Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, while in Beijing,...
Iceland Today, the US Tomorrow?
by Ron Paul | Oct 17, 2016 | Featured Articles
During the 2008 economic crisis, Iceland’s government froze offshore accounts held by foreign investors in that country’s currency, the krona. Recently, the government of Iceland announced it would unfreeze the accounts if the account holders paid a voluntary...
Fifteen Years Into the Afghan War, Do Americans Know the Truth?
by Ron Paul | Oct 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
Last week marked the fifteenth anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan, the longest war in US history. There weren’t any victory parades or photo-ops with Afghanistan’s post-liberation leaders. That is because the war is ongoing. In fact, 15 years after...
After Peres, Is Peace Possible in the Middle East?
by Ron Paul | Oct 3, 2016 | Featured Articles
The death of former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres last week marks the last of the Zionist “old guard” who successfully fought for a UN mandate to establish the state of Israel in what was formerly British Palestine. Much has been written about...
Wells Fargo or the Federal Reserve: Who’s the Bigger Fraud?
by Ron Paul | Sep 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Wells Fargo bank account scandal took center stage in the news last week and in all likelihood will continue to make headlines for many weeks to come. What Wells Fargo employees did in opening bank accounts without customers' authorization was obviously wrong, but...
Why Are We Sending $38 Billion to Rich and Powerful Israel?
by Ron Paul | Sep 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
Last week’s announcement of a record-breaking US aid package for Israel underscores how dangerously foolish and out-of-touch is our interventionist foreign policy. Over the next ten years, the US taxpayer will be forced to give Israel some $38 billion dollars in...
The Fed Plans for the Next Crisis
by Ron Paul | Sep 12, 2016 | Featured Articles
In her recent address at the Jackson Hole monetary policy conference, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen suggested that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates by the end of the year. Markets reacted favorably to Yellen’s suggested rate increase. This is...
How to Solve the Illegal Immigration Problem
by Ron Paul | Sep 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent speech on immigration really missed the point. I understand Trump’s frustration over the US government’s inability to control the US borders and keep out those who would come to this country illegally. Trump was...
The Right Lessons from Obamacare’s Meltdown
by Ron Paul | Aug 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
The decision of several major insurance companies to cut their losses and withdraw from the Obamacare exchanges, combined with the failure of 70 percent of Obamacare's health insurance “co-ops, ” will leave one in six Obamacare enrollees with only one health insurance...
What Should We Do About Crimea?
by Ron Paul | Aug 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
Is Crimea about to explode? The mainstream media reports that Russia has amassed troops on the border with Ukraine and may be spoiling for a fight. The Russians claim to have stopped a Ukrainian sabotage team that snuck into Crimea to attack key infrastructure. The...
Election 2016: Liberty Loses No Matter Who Wins
by Ron Paul | Aug 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
For all the hand-wringing about the threat to liberty and constitutional government posed by the major party presidential candidates, there is little discussion of how this threat is due to the political class’s long history of supporting expanded presidential power....
The Phony Job Recovery
by Ron Paul | Aug 8, 2016 | Featured Articles
Last Friday saw the release of a bombshell jobs report, with headlines exclaiming that the US economy added over 250,000 jobs in July, far in excess of any forecasts. The reality was far more grim. Those “jobs” weren't actually created by businesses – they were...
Americans Are Going to be Disappointed in Election Outcome
by Ron Paul | Aug 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
It is a sad commentary on the state of political life in the United States that our political conventions have become more like rock music festivals than competitions of ideas. There has been a great deal of bombast, of insults, of name-calling, and of chest-beating...
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