Ron Paul questions Ben Bernanke - 11/08/2007 - Hearing of the Joint Economic Committee - The Economic Outlook The best way to I could describe the problems that we face here in this country, as well as the problem that the Federal Reserve faces, is that we're indeed between a rock and a hard place, because we have a serious problem. We don't talk much about how we got here. We talk about how we're going to patch it up. The bubble has been burst. We saw what happened after the NASDAQ bubble burst. We don't ask how it was created. And then we have a housing bubble, and it's deflating and then spreading. And yet, nobody says, where does it come from? And what do -- what is the advice that you generally get? And that is, inflate the currency. They don't say, inflate the currency. They don't say, debase the currency. They don't say, devalue the currency. They don't say cheat the people who are saved. They say, lower the interest rate. But they never ask you, and I don't hear you say too often, the only way I can lower interest rates is I have to create more money. I have to lower the discount rate. I have to make it generous. I have to increase reserves. I have to lower the interest rates and fix the interest rates, overnight rates. And the only way you can do this is by increasing the money supply. And I see this as the problem that we don't want to talk about. Currently, of course, we can't follow the money supply with M3, but we can follow one of your statistics, which is the MZM, the ready cash available. And we see that inflation is alive and well. That -- that money supply figure is going up about 20 percent annualized. And this -- this just means that the dollar gets weaker. And everybody says, well, the dollar is -- that's great. The dollar weaker, we're going to have exports. And that is a fallacy. Maybe for a month or two, but it just invites inflation. And unless we get down to the bottom of it and define what inflation is, and not look at only prices -- this
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