By Matt HawesOn Thursday, Dr. Paul talked about the failure of government intervention and questioned Fed chairman Ben Bernanke during a House Financial Services Committee meeting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD6d_oHxQ4U
By Gary HowardDaily Newsline
Thursday, July 22, 2010
First thing: Beck going Paulista?
You mean people overreacted without knowing the full story in context? That never happens. (Sarcasm)
Oh, and finger-pointing-that’s just rude.
Headline: White H…
As we start the new year 2010, the establishment politicians, economists and Wall Street are trying to convince themselves that we have turned the corner and economic growth has once again begun. The predictions that conditions are getting back to normal come from those who never saw the crisis coming and don’t have the vaguest…
Senator pledges to hold nomination until the Senate votes on the Fed Audit
December 3, 2009 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, announced this morning that he will oppose the nomination of Ben Bernanke to serve a second term as the chairman of the Federal…
For nearly a century the Federal Reserve has operated in the shadows, away from the prying eyes of Congress, journalists and the American people. Created in 1913, the Fed was given enormous responsibility to protect the value of our currency. Yet in the last 96 years the U.S. dollar has lost more than 95% of…
In a letter they will send to Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd this afternoon, Rep. Ron Paul (R., Tex.) and Alan Grayson (D., Fla.) will ask that the Senate hold off on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s confirmation hearing until the central bank releases more information about its rescues.
It is up to the Senate…
The Federal Reserve, through its extensive network of consultants, visiting scholars, alumni and staff economists, so thoroughly dominates the field of economics that real criticism of the central bank has become a career liability for members of the profession, an investigation by the Huffington Post has found.
This dominance helps explain how, even after the Fed…
Tell Barney Frank you heard his latest Town Hall video and you are not interested in some watered down version of Ron Paul’s HR1207 legislation. Mention that you want HR1207 passed as is, stand-alone. DC Phone: 202-225-5931 DC Fax: 202-225-0182
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rep. Barney Frank, the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Financial…
This is the video of Ron Paul speaking on the floor of the House on Thursday, July 30th 2009, about the Federal Reserve’s claims of already being transparent and how HR1207 will affect their independence. Bernanke claims that the bill will politicize monetary policy. The Federal Reserve’s “independence” is nothing more than them being secret…
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is strongly opposing a proposal in Congress, which enjoys the support of over half of the U.S. House of Representatives, to audit the Fed.
During an appearance on PBS’s NewsHour, which will be aired this week on local PBS stations, Bernanke said the proposed legislation would interfere with the central bank’s…