Veronika Oleksyn, an American-born freelance correspondent for Austria's Kurier daily, thought she had written as much as she could about Ron Paul's connection to Austria: He adheres to the Austrian School of economic thought, which espouses, among other things, reinstituting the gold standard and abolishing the central bank.

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And the few economists who most thoroughly understand the central role of interest rates in reflecting economic conditions tend to be of the Austrian school, which tends to have a strong aversion to math personally and epistemologically.

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