Category Archives: Gold Standard

Ron Paul Triangulates Shelby

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Ron Paul Triangulates Shelby”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail This ad has started showing up all over Huffington Post lately. Click it and you’ll visit Ron Paul’s Campaign For Liberty, otherwise known as C4L, where a set of Frank Luntz and Paulite … Continue reading →

Posted in financial crisis, Financial Reform, financial regulation, firebaggers, Gold Standard, Republicans Meet The Teabag Terror, ron paul, Senator Shelby | Leave a comment

Gold Standard

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Gold Standard”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail From Bloomberg, further proof that gold standard advocates and apocalypse fearmongers are full of crap: Gold’s best year in three decades has yet to match the returns of an interest-bearing checking account for anyone who … Continue reading →

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Could Major Financial Reform Pass on a Voice Vote?

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Could Major Financial Reform Pass on a Voice Vote?”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis got me thinking: Lobbyists and committee staffers expected that the amendment — which would mandate that banks essentially could not lend out or invest more than 12 dollars … Continue reading →

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Gold Standard

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Gold Standard”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI was tooling about the intertubes last night when I came upon one of those libertarian memes I love to debunk so much: we must do away with the Fed and return America to the gold … Continue reading →

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