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"Replacing" Obamacare Is Not Enough

By Ron Paul

Americans need to talk about not just "replacing" Obamacare, but the concept of who should be delivering medical services in a free country. Here's a hint: Not the government!

I discuss on Fox Business:

Where Trump Gets It Wrong On China

By Chris Rossini

The ideas of 'protectionism' and 'mercantilism' are not new. They have ruined countless economies throughout history. Donald Trump did not make these ideas up. Sadly, however, he has embraced them to a large extent. The idea of trade being a zero-sum game where there are winners and losers is deeply flawed.

This flaw appears in one of Trump's latest Tweets, where he writes:

China has been taking out massive amounts of money & wealth from the U.S. in totally one-sided trade, but...

Ron Paul Statement on Audit the Fed

By Ron Paul

I applaud my son Senator Rand Paul and my friend Representative Thomas Massie for their leadership on the important issue of auditing the Federal Reserve. Audit the Fed is the type of change the American people demanded when they went to the polls last November.

For 105 years, the Federal Reserve has exercised almost absolute and unquestioned authority over America’s monetary policy. The result has been a boom-and-bust business cycle, growth in government, increasing income inequali...

Will Trump's Trade Policy Bring Jobs Back Home?

President-elect Trump has already gotten tough with three US manufacturing giants, warning that there will be financial penalties for building plants abroad. Will strong-arming these companies succeed in bringing jobs back home?

Restaurants to Eliminate More Waiters in Response to Minimum Wage Hike

By Ryan McMaken

Colorado was among the four states where voters approved a minimum wage hike in November. Among the specific provisions for the new wage hike was the stipulation that tipped workers — such as waiters who receive tips and are paid below the standard minimum wage — willreceive a mandated wage hike of 99 cents.

Naturally, this will lead to an increase in costs for restaurant owners who will then seek to raise prices and/or reduce costs.KDVR in Denver reports:

Kanatzer owns Th...

Facts Or Fakes: Can We Trust The Washington Post?

So the Washington Post is going to lead the fight against fake news? Isn't that like putting the fox in the henhouse? Time and time again of late the WaPo is caught colluding with the US government to create fake news. Is the mainstream media having a nervous breakdown?

A great story from when America was still the Land of Opportunity

By Simon Black

Last week during a long overdue vacation, a close friend of mine recommended reading the autobiography of Rich DeVos called Simply Rich.

DeVos is a billionaire entrepreneur who started countless ventures during his nine decades on this earth.

Back in the 1946, for example, DeVos started an airline… virtually overnight.

He just bought an airplane and started flying people around. No rules. No regulations.

They didn’t even have an airport. The local airfield north of Grand Rapid...

Proclaiming Liberty 2016: The Best of Ron Paul & Friends

2016 was a great year for The Ron Paul Liberty Report! Thank you for watching on YouTube, listening on iTunes and reading on the website. We're looking forward to another year of work for the cause of Liberty. Please enjoy some of the highlights of 2016.

Good News: Washington Frozen Out of Syria Peace Plan

By Ron Paul

As the US mainstream media obsessed last week about Russia's supposed “hacking” of the US elections and President Obama’s final round of Russia sanctions in response, something very important was taking place under the media radar. As a result of a meeting between foreign ministers of Russia, Iran, and Turkey last month, a ceasefire in Syria has been worked out and is being implemented. So far it appears to be holding, and after nearly six years of horrible warfare the people...

Trump Is Exactly Where The Elites Want Him

By Brandon Smith

Cognitive dissonance is a powerful drug. It makes otherwise-very-intelligent people goofy and incoherent in their thinking and blinds them to certain realities that they should normally see right in front of their noses. I witness it all the time in the field of economics — a key piece of logic, a key fact that certain people absolutely refuse to take into account simply because they have a singular idea of how the world works and they cannot allow that idea to ever come into...