All Posts Tagged With: "Audit Federal Reserve"

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Washington Post Goes Hysterical as Ron Paul Tries to Drive Stake into Heart of Federal Reserve

It was enlightening to see the pathetic “editorial” in The Washington Post which attacked the idea the Federal Reserve needs to be reined in, and that an audit of the Fed, as proposed by an amendment introduced by Texas Republican Ron Paul, would be devastating to the ability of the secretive and arrogant organization to [...]

December 21st, 2009 | Gary | Comments | Continued
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Democrats Continue to Push Fascist Banking Regulation Agenda

Democrats continue their controversial slide away from liberty and freedom, as they move toward a fascist government, which they seek to embed in the economic system of America.
Fascism, as Paxton wrote, deals with a “form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy [...]

December 14th, 2009 | Gary | Comments | Continued
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Jim Rogers: “The Fed is making our lives miserable … Audit It, Then Abolish It”

Saying the Federal Reserve is the only institution in the world he knows of that isn’t audited, famed investor and author Jim Rogers said in an interview, “It’s incomprehensible to me these people are saying they have no reason to be audited — they must have done something wrong, must have something to hide.”
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December 11th, 2009 | Gary | Comments | Continued
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Keynesian College Economist Weenies Come to Aid of Their Hero Ben Bernanke in Opposition to Ron Paul’s Audit the Fed Bill

Evidently reading a script that was probably written by Ben Bernanke himself, a small number of college economists wrote a letter to the Senate Banking Committee and House Financial Services Committee saying the tired, worn out old line that if the Government Accountability Office audits the Federal Reserve, it would cause serious harm to the [...]

December 8th, 2009 | Gary | Comments | Continued
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Will Ron Paul Vote Against His Own Bill to Audit the Federal Reserve?

Washington has been so out of touch with principles and reality for so long, that they probably think voting for the bill initiated by Ron Paul to edit the Federal Reserve would be political feather in the cap of Ron Paul. But it looks like that isn’t going to be so, as it wasn’t allowed [...]

December 8th, 2009 | Gary | Comments | Continued
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Ben Bernanke Lectures Gordon Brown and Britain in Hopes of Maintaining Status Quo at Federal Reserve

Ben Bernanke is looking more anemic and pathetic every day that goes by, as now the disastrous Chairman of the Federal Reserve, in an attempt to shore up his position at the Federal Reserve, and the Federal Reserve itself, is using Gordon Brown as a scapegoat in an attempt to make it look like his [...]

December 4th, 2009 | Gary | Comments | Continued
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U.S. Senator Jim DeMint Will Hold Bernanke Nomination Until Senate Votes on Auditing the Federal Reserve

Things were definitely not boring at the confirmation hearing of beleaguered Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke today, where he stood before the Senate Banking Committee to decide on whether he would be awarded a second four-year term as head of the secretive agency.
One of those interesting moments came when U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), [...]

December 4th, 2009 | Gary | Comments | Continued
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Former Fed Governor Frederic Mishkin Says the Federal Reserve Being Held Accountable for its Actions is “Incredibly Dangerous”

Didn’t he say it that way? Actually, yes he did, just using different words.
In a Bloomberg Radio interview, Mishkin stated: “It is remarkable the kind of attacks that are occurring on Fed independence.”
Think of that in terms of the economic crisis we’re in. It makes you feel good that the Federal Reserve was independent leading [...]

December 2nd, 2009 | Gary | Comments | Continued
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Senator Bernie Sanders To Vote Against Renomination of Ben Bernanke

Saying the Ben Bernanke is “part of the problem,” Senator Bernie Sanders said on Sunday that he will definitely vote against nominating Bernanke for a second term as Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
The Federal Reserve, which has long wanted to keep their activities and persona quiet, are no longer able to operate under those conditions, [...]

November 30th, 2009 | Gary | Comments | Continued
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Ben Bernanke Fears Ron Paul’s Audit Above All Else

In a recent and unusual action, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke wrote a column in a newspaper, in this case the online version of the Washington Post, which attempted to undermine the legislation initiated by Ron Paul to at minimum require that the Federal Reserve be fully audited by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
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November 30th, 2009 | Gary | Comments | Continued
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Congressmen Ron Paul and Alan Grayson Announce Amendment Based on HR 1207 Passes in Financial Services Committee

Concerns were raised after highly supported HR 1207 was gutted by Mel Watts, who offered a version of the bill so different as to not to be taken seriously, in response, Congressmen Ron Paul and Alan Grayson added an amendment to HR 3996, which Paul says, if passed, “will grant sweeping new powers to the [...]

November 19th, 2009 | Gary | Comments | Continued