US sanctions against Russia are just the latest incentive for the world’s economies to avoid dealing with the dollar, writes Ron Paul. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Allan
Introduction: Where We Are It’s a fallacy to believe the US has a free market economy. The economy is run by a conglomerate of individuals and special interests, in and out of government, including the Deep State, which controls central economic planning. Rigging the economy is required to prevent market forces from demanding a halt to the
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[Excerpted from Ron Paul’s historic farewell speech to Congress, which is available in our new publication, Pursue the Cause of Liberty: A Farewell to Congress , in both pocketbook and ebook editions, with an introduction by Lew Rockwell.] How Much Did I Accomplish? In many ways, according to conventional wisdom, my off-and-on career in Congress,
Editor’s Note: This selection is taken from Chapter 5 of Ron Paul’s new book, The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System . The free-market principle of open entry is challenged by governmental restrictions on access to consumer markets. There are many official justifications for these restrictions, but the main one is
Supporters of warfare, welfare, and Wonder Woman cheered last week as Congress passed a one trillion dollar “omnibus” appropriation bill. This legislation funds the operations of government for the remainder of the fiscal year. Wonder Woman fans can cheer that buried in the bill was a $10,000 grant for a theater program to explore the comic book
[ Editor’s Note: This is a selection from the last chapter of Ron Paul’s A Foreign Policy of Freedom .] The most succinct statement about how governments get their people to support war came from Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg trials after World War II: Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his
Last Friday saw the release of a bombshell jobs report, with headlines exclaiming that the US economy added over 250,000 jobs in July, far in excess of any forecasts. The reality was far more grim. Those “jobs” weren’t actually created by businesses – they were created by the statisticians who compiled the numbers, through the process of “seasonal
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