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The Fed/Saddam Connection
From Reddit comes this link to a 2004 NYT story, further confirming that when Ron Paul questioned Bernanke, Ron was only saying what he figured that everyone knew: But there is another line of questioning officials might pursue — one that depends less on the cooperation of Mr. Hussein than on the assistance of... »
The Fed/Saddam Connection
From Reddit comes this link to a 2004 NYT story, further confirming that when Ron Paul questioned Bernanke, Ron was only saying what he figured that everyone knew: But there is another line of questioning officials might pursue — one that depends less on the cooperation of Mr. Hussein than on the assistance of... »
Fed Secrecy in the Watergate Years
At Congressional hearings, Ron Paul casually mentioned, in an exchange with Ben Bernanke, the rumors that the Fed somehow assisted in the Watergate coverup, and when Congress looked into it, they couldn’t get the information. He offered this only as a passing illustration of how little Congress can actually know about what is going... »
Greenspan the Libertarian
Some errors die hard. In today’s CNN Money, an interview with economist David Rosenberg featured this distortion: The crisis came about because of excessive leverage, a misunderstanding of credit quality as linked to securitized products, and a general lack of appreciation for risk. Thanks to years of deregulation, the government created a wild west and... »
On “Tea-Partying”
I have been watching bits and snatches of the “Tea Party Convention” on C-SPAN. My initial response is much the same as Gertrude Stein’s impression of Oakland: “There is no there there.” My suspicion is that this group may be but a neo-con/Establishment inspired effort to neutralize widespread popular disaffection with the... »
