Ron Paul

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• Trump's Promised 'New Foreign Policy' Must Abandon Regime Change for Iran

  Published 04 December 2016 | viewed 0 times

  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"…

• To Really 'Make America Great Again,' End the Fed!

  Published 27 November 2016 | viewed 0 times

  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…

• Education System Broken: Let's Try 'Ed-Exit'

  Published 21 November 2016 | viewed 0 times

  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…

• Memo to the Next Administration: Defense Spending Must Be For Actual Defense

  Published 13 November 2016 | viewed 0 times

  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.…

• Regardless of How America Votes, Americans Want a Different Foreign Policy

  Published 07 November 2016 | viewed 0 times

  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…

• Blame Government, Not Markets for Monopoly

  Published 31 October 2016 | viewed 0 times

  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…

• Obama's Pivot to Asia Hits a Roadblock in the Philippines

  Published 24 October 2016 | viewed 0 times

  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…

• Iceland Today, the US Tomorrow?

  Published 17 October 2016 | viewed 0 times

  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…

• Fifteen Years Into the Afghan War, Do Americans Know the Truth?

  Published 09 October 2016 | viewed 0 times

  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…

• After Peres, Is Peace Possible in the Middle East?

  Published 03 October 2016 | viewed 0 times

  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…

• Wells Fargo or the Federal Reserve: Who's the Bigger Fraud?

  Published 26 September 2016 | viewed 0 times

  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…

• The Fed Plans for the Next Crisis

  Published 12 September 2016 | viewed 0 times

  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…

• How to Solve the Illegal Immigration Problem

  Published 05 September 2016 | viewed 0 times

  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…

• The Right Lessons from Obamacare's Meltdown

  Published 28 August 2016 | viewed 0 times

  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…

• What Should We Do About Crimea?

  Published 21 August 2016 | viewed 0 times

  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…

• Election 2016: Liberty Loses No Matter Who Wins

  Published 14 August 2016 | viewed 0 times

  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…

• The Phony Job Recovery

  Published 08 August 2016 | viewed 0 times

  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…

• Americans Are Going to be Disappointed in Election Outcome

  Published 31 July 2016 | viewed 0 times

  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…

• The Path to Fed-Exit

  Published 25 July 2016 | viewed 0 times

  I recently proposed that the liberty movement capitalize on Brexit with "Fed-exit": a campaign to "secede" from the Federal Reserve. Fed-exit could be accomplished with…

• Don't Reform the Fed, Fed-Exit!

  Published 17 July 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Opponents of a central bank should take advantage of the post-Brexit vote revival of secessionist sentiments to promote a secession from central banking, or "Fed-exit."…