[Bokababe]

Me, too!

RP has been warning people about the Federal Reserve for years, just as he warned about the crash before it happened. Only since the housing crash have people begun really listening to him — although you’ll still even see people here treat him like he is a nut.

The Chair of the House Committee on Finance and Technology is the perfect place for Ron Paul to shine, because he has a sound grasp of economics. That’s why some even within the GOP will not want him there.

[Soul Seeker]

As long as he acts the way he does on foreign policy he is never going to be embraced here. He IS a nut and that is putting it kindly on that matter.

This specific issue just happens to be the one issue he’s suited for. I’d like to see him get the job. It’d be fascinating to watch.

[fortheDeclaration]

Agreed.

He needs to stay with Economics and leave foreign policy alone.

[GlockThe Vote]

Ron paul is a sage on this iSsue.

[oldleft]

Ron Paul DOES NOT have a sound grasp of economics. Ron Paul has bought into the Austrian School. I won't try to invalidate all of his ideas here, he has some sound ones, but I've heard him talk econ and it makes as much sense as me talking OB/GYN.

The introduction of Central Banks and fiat currency has allowed for the monetization of non-material capital and fueled the economic growth that the world has seen in the last 100 years. To go back to “Wealth of Nations”, the very wealth which Smith was speaking of was the untapped human capital nations already possessed, not gold or some other arbitrary metal.

Ron Paul is an advocate of a system which is unproven and theoretical (sound familiar?) It's a system which allows for no mitigation of risk and limits credit, credit which spurs innovation.

Freepers who support Paul would do well to research Murray Rothbard and the Austrian School.