Ron Paul's Blog, page 205

Negative Rates Can’t Save The Empire: It’s The Debt Stupid!

Central Planning is always destined to fail, and central planners (at everyone else's expense) always do whatever they can to delay the inevitable. Negative interest rates (that is, getting paid to borrow money) would never occur in a free market monetary system. Such a ludicrous idea will only further exacerbate the end of central banking. Debt continues to skyrocket, and the interest payments will only get more unbearable. It's time to audit and then End The Fed.

Rent Control: A History of Failure

By Gregory Bresiger

Governments can and do try to fix prices, but history tells us it never works.

From the price-control dikats of the Roman Empire’s Diocletian, to the wage and price controls of President Richard Nixon, governments have tried and failed.

The historian Edward Gibbon said the Roman Empire imploded owing to economic disasters and less to barbarians at the gate. More recently, President Nixon imposed wage and price controls before the 1972 elections. He was re-elected when they se...

The Moral/Political Corrosion Of Negative Interest Rates, With Guest Jeff Deist

The approach of negative interest rates in the US will transport us into a truly bizarro world where up is down and spending is saving. But it's not only an economic issue - there is a moral and political corrosion of our society that comes with negative interest rates. Mises Institute President Jeff Deist joins today's Liberty Report.

Never Succumb To Fears of Technocratic Dystopias or Socialist Utopias

By Chris Rossini

"Social Engineers," with their delusions of of total information awareness and total control, are nothing new. We humans are free to think whatever we want. We have imaginations, so naturally there will always be those who imagine they are here (not just to run their lives) but to run the world and organize everything in it to their own liking.

It's an all-to-common error in thinking, and the consequences that these individuals  have produced once they get a hold of the reins o...

Trump Names New National Security Advisor - Bolton Without The Mustache?

President Trump has named Robert O'Brien, who served as foreign affairs advisor to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, as his replacement for fired National Security Advisor John Bolton. O'Brien is cut from the exact same neoconservative cloth as Bolton and represents, at most, change in style and physical appearance. With pressure mounting on Trump to attack Iran after unproven accusations that it was involved in an attack on Saudi oil facilities, the President's national security team may...

Central Bankers Are Boxed In & Negative Interest Rates Won't Help

By Liberty Report Staff

Jeff Deist, President of The Mises Institute explains:

Credibility Crisis: No One Believes Iran Attacked Saudi Arabia

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was sure of who was responsible for the attack on Saudi oil facilities shortly after the attack. Neocons followed suit, one by one blaming Iran and calling for the war they've been drooling over for years. But not only are Washington's European partners skeptical of the claims - even Gulf allies are not outright blaming Iran. Lies grease the wheels of the war machine and with the latest attack the grease is flowing freely. What will Trump do?

Will Trump Take Neocon Bait and Attack Iran Over Saudi Strike?

By Ron Paul

The recent attacks on Saudi oil facilities by Yemeni Houthi forces demonstrate once again that an aggressive foreign policy often brings unintended consequences and can result in blowback. In 2015 Saudi Arabia attacked its neighbor, Yemen, because a coup in that country ousted the Saudi-backed dictator. Four years later Yemen is in ruins, with nearly 100,000 Yemenis killed and millions more facing death by starvation. It has been rightly called the worst humanitarian catastrophe on...

'Locked And Loaded' - Will Trump Attack Iran?

After Saturday's attacks on Saudi oil facilities, President Trump Tweeted that the US is "locked and loaded" and ready to do whatever Saudi Arabia deems appropriate to whoever the Saudis blame for the attack. Will Trump let the Saudis dictate when and where the United States goes to war? Who did it and why? Evidence? False flag? So many questions.

Ron Paul: "We're in the biggest bond bubble in history, and it's going to burst"

By Liberty Report Staff