By mid-morning, Ben Bernanke before the House Financial Services Committee where he sparred with Ron Paul over gold-as-money.

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Prominent among these are the great Reagan Gold Commissioners Rep. Ron Paul, the eminence grise of the Austrian gold standard, and Lewis E.

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Meanwhile three of the other noteworthy candidates are explicitly on record for gold: Rep. Ron Paul and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson are unwavering.

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In a nail biting race Stewart swept aside the clear favourite, Australian Ron Clarke, to take a stunning gold in the 10, 000 metres.

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So you might think that Perry would favor gold and even want to go back to the gold standard as fellow Texas politician, Ron Paul (R-Texas), does.

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Mr. Gingrich has done precisely that with Ron Paul by calling for a commission to study the gold standard.

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That intellectual leadership came in the persons of Ron Paul, who has continued to carry the torch of gold to this day at the level of presidential politics, and Lewis E.

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Throughout his debates with Ron Paul in the 1990s, he hinted that he remained a closet gold standard advocate.

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Is Jim McTague aware that gold has been in a bull market for the last 10 years and that Ron Paul predicted the housing collapse, the plunging dollar, and most obviously, the rise of precious metals?

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No Republican, other than Ron Paul, is demanding that we rein in the Fed and make the dollar as good as gold once again.

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Libertarian icon Dr. Ron Paul conducted perhaps the most important monetary policy hearing in 40 years on rising prices, featuring three distinguished gold standard proponents: James Grant, Lewis E.

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