How Presidential Candidate Ron Paul's Campaign Could End the Fed
Submitted by Anarchist on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 17:41January 27, 2012
By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning
Led by presidential candidate Ron Paul's "end the Fed" mantra, Republicans have made their attacks on the U.S. Federal Reserve into an election year rallying cry.
It's one that could turn ugly in November if the GOP manages to score big.
Where Paul has been the lone voice in the wilderness criticizing the central bank for years, others in the GOP recently adopted the Fed as a scapegoat for the financial crisis of 2008.
Many of the Republican attacks include calls to fire Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and to scale back the Fed's mandate - or in Paul's case, eradicate it altogether.
And while Paul - who actually wrote a book called "End the Fed" in 2008 - has little chance of becoming the nominee, his campaign does have a larger philosophical objective.
"It is Paul's goal to permanently establish within the Republican Party a group that is dead set on not having the Fed," Douglas Holtz-Eakin, chief economic adviser to Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, during his 2008 run for the presidency,told MarketWatch. "This is not going away."
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2013 is the end of the FED's
2013 is the end of the FED's 100 year contract.
What a perfect time to have a monetary expert become president.
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Why do they always have to add this crap?
"has little chance of becoming the nominee"
Never
never with the political class give up the vote buying power of the Fed. Most people have no clue about what the Fed is, have no interest in learning about it and why it is their biggest enemy.