Why We Must Come Together

Guest Post by Ron Paul

One of the greatest influences on both my personal philosophy and the strategy of how to promote it was Leonard Read, the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). Read founded FEE in 1946, just as WWII was ending and the US government was about to embark upon a cold war with the Soviet Union. Read must have foreseen the expansion of government that was coming – both at home and overseas – and he started FEE to spread the message of non-interventionism and freedom. You could say that FEE was the first modern libertarian organization.

Leonard Read was so effective in his role as leader of FEE because of his demeanor. He was kind and gentle in his approach, but he never compromised the freedom message. People should be able to do whatever it is they want without any interference, he believed, as long as they weren’t hurting anybody else.

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Bobby Kennedy, Jr Verses Ron Paul

Submitted by CCRider

                                                                                                                Kennedy      Paul
Against all wars                                                                                         [ ]             [ ]

Closing foreign military bases                                                            [ ]             [ ]

Make Fortress America invulnerable to attack                             [ ]            [ ]

Friendship with all nations                                                                    [ ]           [ ]

Learn and understand a potential adversary’s predicament   [ ]           [ ]

Constitutionalist                                                                                          [ ]          [ ]

The same set of positions over decades                                             [ ]          [ ]

Has the courage of his convictions                                                      [ ]           [ ]

Accurate predictions going back decades                                         [ ]           [ ]

Held his ideological ground no matter the criticism or scorn [ ]           [ ]

The deep concern of the CIA/FBI powers                                          [ ]           [ ]

Hated by the elites/corporate media                                                   [ ]           [ ]

Reliance on free markets                                                                          [ ]           [ ]

Deep skepticism of corporate medicine                                             [ ]           [ ]

Ignited a populist uprising                                                                      [ ]           [ ]

Broad-based appeal                                                                                   [ ]           [ ]

Spoke on the record about the Kennedy assassination coup   [ ]           [ ]

Unfailingly polite and respectful                                                         [ ]           [ ]

Deep medical knowledge                                                                         [ ]           [ ]

The sole peace candidate in their party                                             [ ]           [ ]

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Ron Paul’s Peace, Love, and Revolution: New Design + Capitalism Quotes

Who are capitalism’s greatest enemies? I count three. The first are politicians, who see capitalism as an obstacle separating them from their citizens’ wealth. That wealth also insulates their citizens from the politicians’ influence, which must surely stick in the craw of any would-be tyrants.

The second are business people themselves, who look to the government as their ultimate ace in the hole when it comes to beating competition. If an elite corps of producers can make itself the communist politicians’ key supporter, then they can compel legislation which puts their rivals out of business.

The third are people who cannot fathom what it might be like to possess marketable skills. They look at the wealthy with contempt, believing they could only have gotten that way through chicanery and exploitation. In fairness, plenty of crooks ascend to the highest rungs of society, but this conveniently ignores everyone who made their money by contributing something useful to the world. This is an ability communists seldom, if ever, possess.

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Ron Paul Reveals Why He Owns Gold

Guest Post by Ron Paul

Ron Paul Reveals Why He Owns Gold

By Ron Paul, for Birch Gold Group

My friends, today I want to talk to you about something I’ve owned for decades and believe in strongly: physical precious metals.

Our global economic system is astonishingly complex, highly interdependent and incredibly interlinked. These have been touted as benefits! We’ve outsourced most manufacturing to third-world nations in the name of cost-cutting. Even a “Made in the USA” Ford F150 is built from ⅓ imported parts. Continue reading “Ron Paul Reveals Why He Owns Gold”

“The Sooner The Better” – Revisiting Ron Paul’s 2004 House-Floor Speech Calling For Disbanding NATO

Authored by Adam Dick via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,

On March 30, 2004 – just over 19 years ago, then-Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) concluded a United Sates House of Representatives statement with a strong admonition regarding the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and US involvement in it.

Paul stated:

“In conclusion, we should not be wasting US tax money and taking on more military obligations expanding NATO. The alliance is a relic of the Cold War, a hold-over from another time, an anachronism. It should be disbanded, the sooner the better.”

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The Inflation and Tax Assault on the American People

By Ron Paul

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According to the January report of the Consumer Price Index, price inflation increased by 0.5 percent last month. This follows a 0.1 percent increase in December. The total increase over the last 12 months is 6.4 percent. The official government statistics, which are manipulated to understate the true rate of price inflation, show even greater increases in some costs. Over the last 12 months, food prices increased by 10.1 percent, energy prices increased by 8.7 percent, and shelter costs rose by 7.9 percent.

The government’s figures also record a 0.2 percent decline in real wages in January and a 1.8 percent decline from a year earlier. Keep in mind that actual real wages losses have been larger because the government’s real wage numbers are calculated using the government’s understated price inflation numbers. The Federal Reserve-caused decline in purchasing power disproportionally harms middle- and lower-income Americans, many of whom were already living paycheck to paycheck before the Federal Reserve’s unprecedented money creation caused especially large increases in price inflation. Continue reading “The Inflation and Tax Assault on the American People”

Ron Paul: Ben Bernanke Wrecked the U.S. Economy and Won a Nobel Prize

By Ron Paul, for Birch Gold Group

Ron Paul: Ben Bernanke Wrecked the U.S. Economy and Won a Nobel Prize

Recently, the Nobel Foundation awarded Ben Bernanke (along with Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig) the 2022 Nobel Prize in economic sciences because they “significantly improved our understanding of the role of banks in the economy, particularly during financial crises.”

I already knew that Ben Bernanke was a student of the Great Depression. I wasn’t aware of his exact perspective, though, or his claim that bank failures were the cause of that brutal decade. The Nobel Prize committee explains:

…the [Great Depression] became so deep and so protracted in large part because bank failures destroyed valuable banking relationships, and the resulting credit supply contraction left significant scars in the real economy.

Now, at least, we can gain some understanding of his actions during the Great Financial Crisis. That understanding comes at a price, though – the cost is 40-year record-high inflation, and both you and I, along with every other American, are paying for it.

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‘Twitter Files’ Make it Clear: We Must Abolish the FBI

Guest Post by Ron Paul

Ron Paul was right. Ron Paul is right. Ron Paul has been right. - It almost  looks like the FBI was designed to spy on Americans who might be  disagreeing with policy.

As we learn more and more from the “Twitter Files,” it is becoming all too obvious that Federal agencies such as the FBI viewed the First Amendment of our Constitution as an annoyance and an impediment. In Friday’s release from the pre-Musk era, journalist Matt Taibbi makes an astute observation: Twitter was essentially an FBI subsidiary.

The FBI, we now know, was obsessed with Twitter. We learned that agents sent Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth some 150 emails between 2020 and 2022. Those emails regularly featured demands from US government officials for the “private” social media company to censor comments and ban commenters they did not like.

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IF YOU BELIEVE

If you believed they put a man on the moon

Man on the moon

If you believe there’s nothing up his sleeve

Then nothing is cool

REM – Man on the Moon

The REM song Man on the Moon, released in 1992, is a haunting melancholy tune, with Andy Kaufmann and his life and death as the focal point. For me, the lyrics always bring me back to the simpler time of my youth, when our antenna TV could get about eight channels, we had one rotary phone, one old used station wagon, lived in a row home, and a family of five could be raised on a truck driver’s income, with a stay-at-home mom.

It’s the references to the Game of Life, Risk, Monopoly, Twister, checkers, and chess, which invoke what we did for fun when we weren’t out riding bikes, playing stick-ball, roller hockey, or touch football in the streets. Were bad things going on in the world? Sure. The Vietnam War, Watergate, gasoline shortages and rationing, stagflation, and a myriad of other damaging challenges confronted the country, just as they always have throughout history.

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Ron Paul: The Time Ben Bernanke Shocked Me With This Gold Confession

Guest Post by Ron Paul

Ron Paul: The Time Ben Bernanke Shocked Me With This Gold Confession

Recently, my friends at Birch Gold Group asked me about some of my more infuriating confrontations with the Federal Reserve. This one immediately sprung to mind…

Back in July of 2011, in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis, I served as the Chairman of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Monetary Policy (basically, the Federal Reserve watchdog). I was seriously concerned about the Fed’s ongoing “quantitative easing,” injecting trillions of dollars into the U.S. economy and the subsequent decline in the dollar’s purchasing power. Continue reading “Ron Paul: The Time Ben Bernanke Shocked Me With This Gold Confession”

Ron Paul: America’s First Hyperinflation

Guest Post by Ron Paul

Ron Paul: Americas First Hyperinflation

Today, we’re seeing 40-year record inflation thanks to a combination of irresponsible monetary and fiscal policies. I’ve spoken to a lot of Americans who are seriously worried we’ll see a destructive bout of hyperinflation.

If we do, you may be surprised to learn it won’t be the first time…

Today I’m going to tell you the story of America’s first hyperinflationary episode. Our Founding Fathers learned a crucial lesson from it, and tried to ensure it wouldn’t happen again… Continue reading “Ron Paul: America’s First Hyperinflation”

Here’s Why Thomas Jefferson Would’ve Had Jerome Powell Arrested

Guest Post by Ron Paul

Why Thomas Jefferson Would Have Jerome Powell Arrested

Before we get started today, I want to tell you a story about the former military dictator of Uganda, Idi Amin. During his eight years in power, the economy and infrastructure of the nation collapsed thanks to years of neglect and abuse. Amin took a familiar economic approach to his nation’s economic crisis – he had more money printed.

In fact, he personally negotiated a print run of 2 million in banknotes with a British company – at the end of the negotiations, the company’s salesman asked how they’d be paid for this service.

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Why (and How) the Fed Could Incinerate Your Savings in One Month

Via Birch Gold Group

Why (and How) the Fed Could Incinerate Your Savings in One Month

By Ron Paul

As you might imagine, the last time I talked to the team at Birch Gold Group, the topic of inflation came up. I think this is a crucial matter for every American to understand.

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Ron Paul: Forget About the Gold Standard, Let’s Talk About the Copper Standard

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Forget About the Gold Standard, Let's Talk About the Copper Standard

By Ron Paul

Way back in 1982, two interesting things happened.

The first was the publication of the minority report fellow Gold Commission member Lewis Lehrman and I co-wrote as The Case for Gold. (I’m currently working with Birch Gold Group to release a new edition of this book in the near future.) Now, I understand that might not be as interesting to everyone as it was to sound-money advocates like myself.

I’m sure you remember the second interesting thing, though… Continue reading “Ron Paul: Forget About the Gold Standard, Let’s Talk About the Copper Standard”