When the economic history of our times is written, one man will emerge as the prophet of both the financial collapse and the disasters associated with government management: Ron Paul. He alone among the political class sounded the warnings and sees the way out. This economic manifesto collects his greatest speeches and debates over the last 30
This is Ron Paul’s “Farewell to Congress” delivered on November 14, 2012. Yet this is not reminiscence of good times spent in the halls of power. Rather, in this booklet, you will find a devastating denunciation of the evils perpetrated by the Federal government and the “psychopathic authoritarians” who seek to swell its power, as well as a
There will come a day that the world financiers will rush from dollars just as they have recently rushed into dollars, causing even worse chaos in the international financial markets. Without a stable monetary unit, the speculation will continue and worsen. Overreaction is now becoming more commonplace, but this is a predictable consequence of a
A special Question-and-Answer period at the Mises Institute’s 2018 Supporters Summit in Auburn, Alabama. Recorded on September 28, 2018. Emceed by Mark Thornton.
Featuring remarks by Jeff Deist, Llewlellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. [1:55], Thomas E. Woods, Jr. [4:27], Judge Andrew P. Napolitano [8:47], and Dr. Ron Paul [20:32]. Recorded in Lake Jackson, Texas, on Saturday, 15 August
The Free Market 1, no. 1 (Fall 1983) In 1981 the Federal Register published a declaration from President Reagan: “I determine that it is in the national interest for the Export-Import Bank of the United States to extend a credit in the amount of $120.7 million to the Socialist Republic of Romania (for) the purchase of two nuclear steam turbine
Ron Paul and Mark Spitznagel share a passion for non-interventionism, free markets, and Austrian economics. Congressman Paul served many years as a US Representative from Texas, spanning 1976 to 2013, and was a Republican presidential candidate in 2008 and 2012. He has written extensively on liberty and politics, including The Revolution: A
[Introduction to Liberty Defined (2011). An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Steven Ng, is available for download .] America’s history and political ethos are all about liberty. The Declaration of Independence declares that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are unalienable rights — but notice how both life and the pursuit of
[A speech before the House of Representatives, March 25, 1999.] Mr. Speaker, today I rise with gratitude to Edmund Burke and paraphrase words he first spoke 224 years ago this week. It is presently true that to restore liberty and dignity to a nation so great and distracted as ours is indeed a significant undertaking. For, judging of what we are
[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,
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