Ron Paul

Articles

Drug War: Trump Takes a Step Toward Liberty

12/30/2025 Power & Market Ron Paul

President Trump recently signed an executive order changing marijuana’s Controlled Substances Act classification from Schedule I to Schedule III.

A Christmas Gift to the War Machine

12/23/2025 Power & Market Ron Paul

Imagine how many retired US military officers and former US officials-turned-lobbyists might be financially inconvenienced if we finally “just marched home”?

President Trump’s “Mission Accomplished” Moment

12/16/2025 Power & Market Ron Paul

Unless President Trump reverses course, the “Lower Prices Bigger Paychecks” banner that hung behind him at his “affordability” speech this month will be remembered as being to economic policy what President George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” banner was to foreign policy.

Publications

The Dollar Dilemma: Where to from Here

01/09/2025 Ron Paul

Introduction: Where We Are It’s a fallacy to believe the US has a free market economy. The economy is run by a conglomerate of individuals and special interests, in and out of government, including the Deep State, which controls central economic

Liberty Defined

01/11/2016 Ron Paul

Dr. Paul writes that to believe in liberty is not to believe in any particular social and economic outcome. It is to trust in the spontaneous order that emerges when the state does not intervene in human volition and human cooperation. It permits

The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System

01/11/2016 Ron Paul

Twelve-term Texas Congressman, Presidential candidate, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with a highly provocative treatise about how we need to fundamentally change the way we think about America’s broken education system in

Media

Cold War 2.0 Heats Up

08/06/2025 Ron Paul

Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/cold-war-20-heats

Nobody for Fed Chairman

07/30/2025 Ron Paul

The proper answer to who should be Fed chairman is…nobody. Nobody knows the “correct” interest rate.

America’s Syrian Civil War

07/25/2025 Ron Paul

In Syria the damage is done, and future generations will continue to suffer from the cruel folly of those convinced they know how to run everyone else’s lives.

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