Stay Free with Russell Brand The System is Collapsing | Ron Paul — SF713
May 6, 2026
Ron Paul, former congressman and physician known for advocating limited government and sound-money principles. He discusses systemic collapse from fiat money, war and central banking. Short takes on political opportunity, tech-enabled parallel systems, digital currencies and the moral foundations needed to sustain liberty.
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1971 Default Set The Stage For Modern Collapse
- The U.S. crisis stems from abandoning sound money and constitutional limits on power.
- Ron Paul ties the 1971 end of the gold standard to secret money printing, rising debt, political overreach and widening wealth gaps.
Grow Change Person By Person Not By Chasing Majorities
- Educate individuals one-on-one and build small communities to change minds about liberty and sound money.
- Ron Paul emphasizes conferences, campus talks and personal conversations as routes to recruit committed advocates.
Inflation Makes Malinvestments That Must Be Liquidated
- Monetary inflation creates malinvestments and inevitable self-destruction of bubbles.
- Paul invokes Austrian economics: printing money distorts interest rates, builds bubbles, and leads to an unavoidable liquidation phase.
