Straight Talk On The Economy?

Chyron: John McCain: Straight Talk on the Economy?
QUESTION: “You have admitted that you’re not exactly an expert when it comes to the economy and many have said —
MCCAIN: I have not. I have not. Actually i have not. [ABC News, Good Morning America, 7/2/08]
CHYRON: Housing Crisis: Keene, NH — 12/04/07}
MCCAIN: “But I can’t [...]

Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk 2/22/10: Government Stimulus, One Year Later

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Last week marked the one year anniversary of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, or the stimulus bill, passing into law. While the debate over its success has been focused on whether or not it is stimulating the economy and on various questionable uses of funds, in my estimation this legislation is accomplishing exactly [...]

Ron Paul: Keynesianism Delivers a Decade of Zero

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This past week we celebrated the end of what most people agree was a decade best forgotten. New York Times columnist and leading Keynesian economist Paul Krugman called it the Big Zero in a recent column. He wrote that there was a whole lot of nothing going on in measures of economic progress [...]

2/1/10 Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk: Spending Freeze Not Likely

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Last week politicians in Washington made a few things clear about how they really feel about the state of the union. First, they are beginning to hear the growing discontent with the size and scope of government and the broken promises that keep piling up. Certain events in Massachusetts recently made that statement [...]

1/18/10 Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk: Government is Too Big to Succeed

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Last week, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission kicked off their first round of hearings on the causes of the economic meltdown on Wall Street. The commission is being compared to the the Pecora Commission launched in 1932 to investigate the causes of the Great Depression. The Pecora commission is beloved by those who [...]

Ron Paul: Why the Fed Likes Independence

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Last week it was revealed that when Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve, he urged AIG officials not to disclose to the Securities Exchange Commission relevant details of agreements with banks to bail out Goldman Sachs. Apparently he felt at the time that regulators and the public would [...]

Straight Talk About Smoke-Free Workplace Laws

This six-minute video examines the benefits of smoke-free policies to businesses. It features restaurant and bar owners, employees and industry representatives talking about how these policies are good for health and for business. The video was produced jointly by Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke (KIISS), American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation (ANR Foundation) and the Campaign for [...]