The Haven has posted the following poll question:
What do you think? Is Ron Paul right to think that a crash will be forthcoming? Or will the stock market continue to plow ahead as it has done since 2009?
“If Ron Paul Is Right, Then It’s Only A Matter Of Time Before This Happens… Again”
Paul is a student of the Austrian School of Economics, which contains Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek as a couple of its most brilliant thinkers. The Austrian School has long been critical of central banking; and Paul is no exception, having authored his own book called “End the Fed.”
Dr. Paul thinks that the current interest rates are faulty and artificial, caused by the Fed. In turn, says Paul, investors make bad decisions based on the artificial interest rates, resulting in bubbles:
“One thing we have to remember is that when you get false information from artificially low interest rates, that mistakes are made, they’re inevitable. You make mistakes even when you have market rates of interest. But when the market rate of interest is so low for everybody, there’s a lot of mistakes, and that’s why you have the bubbles, and that’s why you go through the catastrophe we had in ’08 and ’09, and I think the conditions are every bit as bad as they were in ’08 and ’09.”
Paul remains steadfast in his belief that an America without a Federal Reserve would be a brighter America. He described the way investors are forced to hang on to every word of the Fed in the current environment:
