Post Tagged with: "Ron Paul"
It is Krugman who has shined the headlights on the difference between a currency issuer and a currency user
It seems to have been none other than Paul Krugman who made it safe for others to adopt MMT. He shined his headlights on the obvious: the reason why interest rates on government debt are not exploding in countries like Japan, the US, and the UK is because they issue their own currencies. So, Krugman shined the headlights on the difference between a currency issuer and a currency user. It is now time for everyone to follow Dean Baker—to look for the car keys under those MMT headlights
Video: Mockumentary Presents: Politics in America
An in-depth (and cynical) look at the current political environment in America, from the Occupy Wall Street protesters to the President’s reaction to the Republican Primary via Omid Malekan, creator of the Quantitative Easing Explained and European Crisis Explained videos
Don’t change the change!
Jon Stewart on Warren Buffett and the Class Warfare meme
Jon Stewart has noticed that Fox News is selling viewers on the view that ‘socialists’ like Warren Buffet and Barack Obama are engaged in class warfare. He presents an amusing view; take a look
Jon Stewart: Why isn’t Ron Paul the one?
Ron Paul’s campaign put out the video below. Move over, Barack Obama; now Ron Paul is “the one”.Meanwhile the Paul campaign believes the media, including Fox News, is shutting it out in favour of other lesser candidates. Jon Stewart has a good take on this as usual. Take a look
Ron Paul on Liberty
Here’s Ron Paul on Chris Matthews’ show talking about giving people greater liberty and freedom on a number of different issues. I agree with much of what he says. But here’s the part I want to focus in on: property rights. I am all for property rights. See my post “Three eminent domain cases show corporatism in action” for example. But this conversation pitted business property rights against individual liberty – and I say individual liberty wins
Forecasting the Future
David Galland gives us his views on WikiLeaks, government spending, the Wesley Snipes tax case and more. Plus see Casey Research’s interview with Ron Paul on an insider’s insights into the situation in Washington today