{"id":191369,"date":"2009-08-28T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/28\/while-i-would-not-trust-ron-paul-with-my-lunch-box\/"},"modified":"2009-08-28T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T20:14:00","slug":"while-i-would-not-trust-ron-paul-with-my-lunch-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/28\/while-i-would-not-trust-ron-paul-with-my-lunch-box\/","title":{"rendered":"While I Would Not Trust Ron Paul with My Lunch Box,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Barney Frank says that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritholtz.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/barney-frank-supports-auditing-the-fed\/\">he supports an audit of the Federal Reserve<\/a>, and that the bill will pass the House in October, and I believe that his assesment is an honest one.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I think that the Senate is more receptive to Bernanke&#8217;s protestations as to the need for <del>opacity<\/del> independence, and <del>have been more thoroughly bribed by Wall Street<\/del> are more concerned about market repercussions, while Obama&#8217;s economic advisors are <del>Wall Street stooges and influence peddlers<\/del> very supportive of the current regime at the Fed, which makes his signing a bill dubious.<\/p>\n<p>As to Representative Paul, it&#8217;s a case of a stopped clock being right twice a day.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FKQFUjbAJrQ&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FKQFUjbAJrQ&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Barney Frank says that he supports an audit of the Federal Reserve, and that the bill will pass the House in October, and I believe that his assesment is an honest one. That being said, I think that the Senate is more receptive to Bernanke&#8217;s protestations as to the need for opacity independence, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1004,1020,985,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-finance","category-legislation","category-regulation","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}