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Endgame for the Fed?
The Federal Reserve, responding to concerns about the economy and the stock market, and perhaps to criticisms by President Trump, recently changed course on interest rates by cutting its “benchmark” rate from 2.25 percent to two percent. [...]
How Liberty Dies
By S. Chris Anders In Star Wars, Episode III, Senator Padme Amidala utters “so this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause,” as the intergalactic senate votes unlimited powers to the chief executive and it turns out really, really [...]
Death of the Tea Party
Yesterday, the Senate passed H.R. 3877, the budget deal, by a vote of 67-28. 24 Republicans and 4 Democrats – Sherrod Brown (OH), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Chris Murphy (CT), and Debbie Stabenow (MI) — voted no. Here is the vote. Before voting [...]
Ron Paul: The Fed Should Stay Out of New Real-Time Payments
Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul recently penned an op-ed for Fox Business calling on the Federal Reserve to abandon plans to enter into “real-time payments.” You can read Dr. Paul’s op-ed here and below and please help Campaign [...]
True Budget Hawks are Foreign Policy Doves
During my presidential campaigns, well-meaning supporters would sometimes suggest I stop emphasizing opposition to overseas intervention and focus on fiscal issues. I disregarded the advice, not only because adopting a noninterventionist foreign [...]
Classic Ron Paul: Reject bipartisanship
This weekends tragic shootings have renewed a push for the Democrats’ expanded background check legislation and Republicans’ “Red Flag” laws. This is a good time to re-examine Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul’s column explaining [...]
Congress Spending Surge is National Suicide
With a national debt approaching $23 trillion and a trillion dollar deficit for this year alone, Congress last week decided to double down on suicidal spending, passing a two year budget that has the United States careening toward catastrophe. [...]
Ron Paul on Fed Interest Rate Cut
Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul issued the following statement regarding the Federal Reserve’s announcement that it will be reducing interest rates for the first time in a decade: “The Federal Reserve’s reduction of its benchmark [...]
This Week in Congress Plus Wrap-Up of Last Week
The House has adjourned for the August recess, but the Senate remains in session. The Senate will be working on the budget deal. Campaign for Liberty is supporting Senator Rand Paul’s amendment to pair a short-term extension of the debt [...]
Campaign for Liberty stands with Rand against budget deal
Campaign for Liberty is supporting Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s efforts to amend the budget deal. Senator Paul’s amendment would replace the two-year suspension of the debt ceiling with a short-term extension that would be tied to [...]