Click here to watch the long-awaited “Audit the Fed” hearing in Congress. Many thanks to Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) and his many colleagues in the House for doggedly pursuing this most necessary investigation. Barney Frank is presiding over this and other crucial business before the House Finance Committee.
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Digg subscribers submitted questions for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in the 9th installment of the Digg Dialogg. Today, the Wall Street Journal’s Deputy Managing Editor Alan Murray grilled a visibly uncomfortable Timmy.

Hopefully Eliot Spitzer won’t get suicided for this. I don’t condone his past affair, but it’s quite obvious why HE was taken down when many, many other officials engage in the same…or worse behavior. At the time of his scandal, Spitzer was after the Wall Street bad guys- and very close to [...]

Congressman Ron Paul’s bill to TRULY audit the Federal Reserve (HR 1207) has wide support in the House of Representatives, but it’s companion bill (S 6055) is facing trouble in the Senate.
The secretive central bank operates with impunity, and is not, as many Americans believe, an agency of the United States Government. [...]

Interesting times, my friends, we live in them without a doubt. Congressman Ron Paul’s “Audit The Fed” bill ( H.R. 1207: The Federal Reserve Transparency Act) reached enough congressional support last week to go forward out of committee and onto the floor of the house. It now has 222 co-sponsors. An audit of [...]

We’d all LOVE for the Fed to be audited. We are not holding our breath, as the Fed is apparently beyond the reach of any authoritarian body. It seems the Federal Reserve apparently can’t account for $9 trillion in off-balance sheet transactions.
When Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Orlando) asked Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman of the [...]