Candidate Mashup (debate) to be sponsored by Slate.com along with Yahoo and the Huffington Post. All 8 candidates will sit for a 15 min. interview with Charlie Rose. Three questions will be asked. You can send yours in text, audio or video to: [email protected]. Be there or be square. Save […]

With all the recent talk about the sub prime mortgage crisis, and The Fed’s response, it provides the presidential candidates an interesting situation, in which to highlight their economic policy and try to downplay their opponents’. This can be very helpful for investors, as a prediction of how the market will do in general.
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At the start of campaign 2008 the idea that monetary policy would be part of the debate was quite a long shot. Despite Ron Paul’s talk about the dollar, inflation and the need for the gold standard, this topic was not likely to be embraced by debate questioners or other candidates.
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We took special note of the Ron Paul interview on CNBC […]

Ron Paul was interviewed this afternoon on the CNBC program, Kudlow & Co. Paul portrayed today’s Fed actions, temporary injections of liquidity to bring short-term rates back to the target rate, as a Fed bailout. That answer and his question about where the Fed got the money for today’s policy moves both suggest […]