Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, discusses Ron Paul’s plan for an instant $1.6 trillion reduction in the national debt; why we need to lower, not raise, the debt ceiling; the dangers of a depreciating dollar; why the NSA’s spy data is more useful for blackmail than fighting terrorism; the Fed’s money creation shell game; and why empire is a money-losing proposition.
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