Flashback: Rand Paul Reveals Biggest Threat To America
From the archives of PrisonPlanet.tv. In 2009 Rand Paul was campaigning for his eventual Kentucky Senate seat in Austin Texas. He sat down with Infowars.com for a one on one interview that...
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Senator Rand Paul, left, wants to audit the Federal Reserve. Fed chair Janet Yellen, right, has argued the central bank is already audited. Anything more would hurt the central bank's independence.
Paul, a possible Republican presidential contender, has been campaigning to "Audit the Fed." He wants a full review of the financial records of America's central bank -- and its decision making.
The idea is gaining traction on the campaign trail. Paul has raised over $85,000 this week on a website called "Audit the Fed Money Bomb." His goal is $150,000 by next week.
"'Audit the Fed' is about transparency, but the fight is also about restoring fiscal sanity to our nation's checkbook," Paul wrote in an op-ed this week on the conservative website breitbart.com.
The Fed -- and many economists around the country -- are firing back.
"I can think of nothing that would do more damage to our nation's prosperity [than Audit the Fed]," Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, said in a speech Wednesday.
What kind of audit? The Fed is already audited by both the Government Accountability Office and an independent auditor, but Paul wants the auditors to go a step further and identify where the Fed buys its debt -- something they do not examine now.
This isn't about an audit, Fed officials say, but rather a direct attempt to insert politics into the central bank's decisions on interest rates.
It could have a real impact on Main Street since interest rates effect everything from mortgage and car loan rates to how much interest people earn on money they put in the bank.
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Rand Paul wants to 'Audit the Fed.' Why?
Rand Paul has either uncovered one of the biggestscandals in the history of this country, orjust invented a new conspiracy theory.
I'll give you one guess which it is.
The backdrop is Paul's "Audit the Fed" bill, which is really an intimidate the Fed bill. The fact is, the Dodd-Frank financial reform already audited the Fed's past emergency lending, and requires it to disclose any such future lending, too. Not only that, but the rest of the Fed's balance sheet is already audited by the Government Accountability Office, the Office of the Inspector General, and independent private auditors. That's not good enough for Paul, though, who also wants to "audit" the Fed's monetary policy decisions. Basically, he wants Congress to look over the Fed's shoulder and second-guess whether it should have raised rates or bought bonds. It's the first step toward stripping the Fed of its independence, which, plenty of studies show, tends to lead to worse policyand definitely would have the past few years, when the GOP triedpublicly warning the Fed off its much-need stimulus efforts.
The Fed, as you might expect, isn't exactly enthused about this bill. Fed Governor Jerome Powell calls it "misguided," and outgoing Fed President Richard Fisher, hardly a liberal, says it just shows that it's "convenient to create a bogeyman."
But Paul sees something more nefarious going on than people he disagrees with exercising their First Amendment rights. "The Fed, with unlimited power to print money," Paul says, "now prints that money to lobby against Congressional oversight."
That's quite an accusation. If it were true that the Fed was printing money to basically bribe Congress with, it'd be one of the biggest scandals in recent memory. Heck, if it were even true that the Fed was printing money at all right now, it'd be a big story since it stopped last year. So what's Rand Paul's proof? Oh, that's right. He doesn't have any. He's just saying unsubstantiated things to try to rile people up and raise more money from them.
Although maybe that's giving Paultoo much credit. It's possible that hereally doesn't know. Back in 2011, when inflation was 2.9 percent, he warned that Weimar-style hyperinflation was coming. Today, inflation is 0.7 percent, but he's still warning about it. So maybe he really does think the Fed is printing money, and maybe he really does think it's using this nonexistent money to lobby Congress with.
Like I said before, sometimes it's hard to tell the charlatans from the cranks.
Matt O'Brien is a reporter for Wonkblog covering economic affairs. He was previously a senior associate editor at The Atlantic.
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