c/david-graeber
Lectures, interviews, and talks by David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything.
…a lunatic. I mean, whether on the left or the right, Rand Paul, you know, tries to talk about this all the time. Ron Paul, sorry. And, you know, is denounced as a crazy person. And so is someone like Chomsky or Michael Hudson. Right. They're very much…
…from then forward has performed a whole lot better than it did before there was a Fed. Now, as to the question, Ron Paul contends that the Federal Reserve is unconstitutional. And if you look at the Constitution in particular, if you look at Section 8…
…that Congress has the power to coin money. It doesn't say that Congress has the power to print money. This is where Ron Paul and the libertarians say that the Federal Reserve is unconstitutional. Now, they do have a Supreme Court decision in their favor.…
…retired, Ulysses Grant appointed two new ones, and they changed their minds. And they said that legal tender was constitutional. If Ron Paul wants to go back to the 1870 decision, that's his prerogative. But since the early 18s to the mid-1870s, the…
…And I was wondering, the thing is that there's some government departments like our military that can be cut back. Like Ron Paul talks about taking our troops away from foreign countries and that could bring us money. Our country is also very dependent…