‘Audit the Fed’ bill passes House again
U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, M.D. (GA-10) Wednesday released the following statement after H.R. 24, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act (Audit the Fed), passed in the U.S. House of Representatives with strong bipartisan More...
The Beast, The False Jesus, And The Rapture, Part 2 – Deceit
Meanwhile, by now, Islam had split into the Shiites and the Sunnis, and had secrets of its own. Some of the known secret orders were the Assassins, Fatimids, Ismailis, Karmathites, and the Druses, who appear to More...
Senator Rand Paul says he’ll hold up the Yellen nomination if ‘Audit the Fed’ not considered
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said his intent is to “hold up” the President Obama’s nomination for the new Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen if the “Audit the Fed” bill is More...
Ron Paul: Janet Yellen ‘might even end up being Ben Bernanke on steroids’
There was a lot of glee by the markets over President Obama’s nomination of current Federal Reserve Vice Chair, Dr. Janet Yellen, to fill the shoes of outgoing Ben Bernanke, likely because they know that More...
Rand Paul takes aim at the Fed
Like father, like son. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) sounds every bit as adverse to the policies of the Federal Reserve as his father, former Texas Congressman and long time critic of the US Central Bank, Ron Paul. donkeyhotey More...
Janet Yellen nominated to head the Fed, anti-Fed crusader, Ron Paul responds
President Barack Obama announced yesterday his nominee to take the place of Ben Bernanke and head the US central bank, the Federal Reserve. Mr. Obama, not to the surprise of many, nominated Dr. Janet Yellen, the More...
Treasury warning on debt ceiling: Congress has a lot of work to do, money will run out mid-October
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said Congress isn’t working fast enough to extend the debt limit and the consequences of inaction are dire. photo by photoSteve101 via Flickr “If you look at the calm out there, which More...
Ron Paul says ‘None of the Above’ for next Fed chair
During the closing of the inaugural episode of the Ron Paul Channel Monday, former Texas Congressman Dr. Ron Paul said the next Federal Reserve chairman should be “NOTA”, of none of the above. Image/Video More...
Ron Paul responds to Ben Bernanke’s testimony to Joint Economic Committee
Federal Reserve Chariman, Ben Bernanke, gave testimony on the U.S. economy to the congressional Joint Economic Committee today. In his testimony, Bernanke testified to the current economic conditions, fiscal More...
Ron Paul on the stock market record highs: ‘This is a house of cards’
Former Texas Congressman and staunch critic of the policies of the Federal Reserve, Ron Paul, previously criticized the news that came out of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting last week saying he More...
The Fed to continue bond-buying program, Ron Paul responds ‘I am disappointed, but not surprised’
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met for a two-day meeting in March, and according to the Fed press statement, little has changed. They report economic activity growth as moderate, labor markets have More...
All Hail the Debt Fairy! All Hail the Inflation Fairy!
In September 2008, if it had not been obvious before, it had become abundantly clear since that the borrow-and-spend party has been over for nearly five years, yet Paul Krugman is becoming even more shrill about More...
Marches of the Non Sequitur, protecting the ‘cuts’ to federal budget
I really was ready to shout, “Hallalujah!” when I saw the title of Paul Krugman’s latest column on the 10-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. When I met Krugman in 2004 at the Southern More...
Paul Krugman and His Zombie History
Murray Rothbard liked to say that economist often tended to specialize in the area where their knowledge was the worst, and given Paul Krugman’s butchery of the historical record, I’d say Rothbard had More...
The Trillion Dollar Platinum Coin: Believe or Make-Believe?
A petition started in early January on the White House official website calls for the president to mint a platinum coin worth $1 trillion. The United States Treasury technically cannot print its own debt-free currency More...
Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis pleads guilty in Federal bank terrorist plot of 2012
A Bangladeshi man who tried to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York remotely only to find that the bomb was fake and his plot had been under the constant surveillance of federal agents pleaded guilty last More...
Is the Fed Hampering the Recovery?
In his blog post on “Calvinist Monetary Economics,” Paul Krugman claims that a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed by John Taylor on why he believes the Fed is hampering the recovery by keeping interest More...
Germany want gold back, Federal Reserve sending 5 percent, will take seven years
Back in the days of the Soviets and worries about a Red Army invasion west of the Iron Curtain, Germany made a decision to hide the massive gold supplies outside German borders. Photo/donkeyhotey donkeyhotey.wordpress.com Germany More...
Inflation Since The American Revolution
This chart just had to be shared. From Michael Krieger who posted this chart: inflation was virtually unheard of until the Creature from Jekyll Island (the Federal Reserve) took over. However, more importantly, More...
Georgia Congressman, Dr. Paul Broun, reintroduces ‘Audit the Fed’ Bill
Congressman Paul Broun Photo/US House of Representatives Picking up from the work of now retired Texas Congressman, Dr. Ron Paul, Georgia Republican Rep. Paul Broun reintroduced “Audit the Fed” legislation, More...
