|
|
|
Under pressure from the Bush administration, the Alan Greenspan-led Federal Reserve created massive amounts of fiat money. It financed the largest asset boom in history. In turn, this precipitated the recent deleveraging and...
CQPolitics.com - Andrew Jackson would assuredly be pleased at the rising congressional distrust of the Federal Reserve. The populist president, who won re-election in 1832 on a platform of abolishing the Second Bank of the...
Perot never would have made it that far without his business success. If Libertarians want to have a real impact in 2010 or 2012, they need to recruit from the business world, where their values will resonate most. Places like...
In this final installment of our Operation Health Freedom video series, Congressman Paul talks about the need for less government in health care and mentions reforming the tax code to give us back more of our hard-earned...
The more I observe U.S. politics, the more I am sickened by racial politics. Don't get me wrong; this is also an observable trend in Europe. The fact is that race and nationality have always been explosive issues. Politicians...
By Chuck Baldwin By now, virtually everyone has read and reread the copious news accounts of the terrible shooting a few weeks ago at Fort Hood, Texas. Question 2: If the federal government--including the Department of Homeland...
Yesterday something truly startling happened. The American people won and the Establishment lost-- IN CONGRESS. That never happens. Alan Grayson and Ron Paul teamed up and made it happen-- against the wishes of their party...
By SUDEEP REDDY WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve's strategy to fend off a barrage of attacks from Congress, largely centered on low-key diplomacy by Chairman Ben Bernanke, isn't succeeding. But some say the financial crisis --...
It's an issue that libertarian Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) , a self-proclaimed socialist agree on: Congress should have the authority to call for the Federal Reserve to be audited. But it is also...
Warren Buffett to CNBC: Curbing Fed's Independence Could Lead to 'Mischief' Published: Friday, 20 Nov 2009 | 9:24 AM ET Warren Buffett doesn't want Congress to "fool around" with the Federal Reserve's political independence,...
