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Record Bank Failures, And What They Mean

by Ron Paul | Mar 21, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on March 10 was the second largest bank failure in U.S. history. Just two days following SVB’s collapse, Signature Bank joined the record books as the third largest bank failure in U.S. history. First Republic Bank also seemed on the edge of collapse until Bank of America, Citigroup, and other big banks agreed to jointly fund a bailout for it. Major Swiss bank Credit Suisse was also teetering on the brink when it received a 54 billion dollars line of credit from the Swiss UBS Group last week. Now, UBS is in the process of buying Credit Suisse....

Congress Holds Hearing on ‘Twitter Files’ And Shoots the Messenger

by Ron Paul | Mar 14, 2023 | Featured Articles

I often joke that I survived Washington because I had low expectations, but last week’s hearing of the House Weaponization of the Federal Government subcommittee would have tested the lowest of my low expectations. The purpose of the subcommittee is to look into the politicization of U.S. government agencies and its effect on our civil liberties. But last week’s inaugural hearing of the committee was not at all a good look for the Democrats, who brought nothing but insults for the witnesses. Things got off on the wrong foot very quickly, as Democrat committee Members seemed less interested...

‘Big Tech’ Was Enabled by the Fed

by Ron Paul | Mar 7, 2023 | Featured Articles

Now you see it...maybe soon you won’t. Over the last year, the seeming ability of stock values of many technology companies to keep rising forever met resistance. This was true even for the major technology companies known collectively as “big tech.” During the last 12 months, Meta (parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram), Amazon, and Alphabet (parent company of Google and YouTube) suffered layoffs and big declines in stock prices. These were the result of both bad decisions and changing market conditions. For example, the end of covid lockdowns obviously reduced demand for...

The Antiwar Movement is Reborn

by Ron Paul | Feb 28, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

On February 19th, the National Mall in Washington, DC saw its largest antiwar rally in 20 years. The speakers list included four former U.S. presidential candidates and a broad and diverse collection of antiwar activists from beyond the left and right. The aptly-named “Rage Against War Machine” rally drew thousands of attendees, however many pro-war advocates eagerly pointed out that it did not match in size some of the larger rallies against the Iraq war 20 years ago. To that I say, “who cares”? The U.S. mainstream media engages in war propaganda non-stop, with the only exception being Fox...

As the Fed’s Inflation Worsens, the IRS Is Targeting Restaurant Wait Staff

by Ron Paul | Feb 21, 2023 | Featured Articles

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...

Join Me This Sunday in DC to Stop Our Coming War with Russia

by Ron Paul | Feb 14, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Twenty years ago this spring the U.S. government was finally successful in lying us into war with Iraq. Administration after administration had sanctioned and bombed and even invaded the country, but finally 20 years ago next month the Bush Administration unleashed “shock and awe” to flatten a country that did not and could not threaten the United States. After eight years of battle in Iraq perhaps as many as a million innocent people died, either directly or indirectly, from Washington’s aggression. No one was brought before a tribunal over the lies and destruction. No one even apologized....

Sales Tax Is Still Theft

by Ron Paul | Feb 7, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles

A group of House Republicans is supporting legislation that would replace federal income, payroll, estate, and gift taxes with a 30 percent national sales tax. The bill also eliminates the Internal Revenue Service, giving states the responsibility to collect the sales tax and send the revenue to DC. This deputizing of states to act as federal tax collectors violates the principles of federalism, especially since the plan forces states that have chosen not to make their residents pay sales taxes create a mechanism for collecting sales tax. A 30 percent sales tax on all goods with no...

Disinformation Pushers, Label Thyself

by Ron Paul | Jan 31, 2023 | Featured Articles

Thanks to the latest release of the “Twitter Files,” we now know without a doubt that the entire “Russia disinformation” racket was a massive disinformation campaign to undermine U.S. elections and perhaps even push “regime change” inside the United States after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016. Here is some background. In November 2016, just after the election, The Washington Post published an article titled, “Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say.” The purpose of the article was to delegitimize the Trump presidency as a product of a...