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Ron Paul on Ben Bernanke as Time's Man of The Year: Not Evil Per Se, But Head of an Evil System

Nick Gillespie | 12.16.2009 2:52 PM

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Via Andy Levy's Twitter feed and Polijam comes this clip of Rep. Ron Paul talking in Morning Joe about Fed head Helicopter Ben Bernanke being named as Man of The Year.

"The big question is: has he used that power for good or for evil? And of course my side of the argument is the system is evil and the chairman, whether it's Greenspan or Bernanke, they can do no good."

I was on Fox News' Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano last week, along with investment guru and Senate candidate Peter Schiff, where we talked about the Fed (in fact, we followed Ron Paul on the show!):

My NY Times review of Joe Scarborough's recent tome, The Last Best Hope, here.

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