End the Fed: Filmmaker Tad Lumpkin Animates the Financial Crisis

"Any time you give unlimited capacity to print money, then the government's going to grow," says filmmaker Tad Lumpkin.

Lumpkin created the animated feature The American Dream, which is available on YouTube, to explain U.S. monetary policy and its consequences in a way that would be accessible to a mass audience. Although some in the media, and at the Federal Reserve, blame a lack of regulation for the financial crisis, Lumpkin argues that the Fed itself is the primary cause for the collapse of the housing sector.

Lumpkin sat down with Reason.tv's Tim Cavanaugh to discuss the folly of central banking, why Ron Paul is an important political force, and why it's time to end the Fed.

Shot by Zach Weissmueller, Hawk Jensen, and Alex Manning. Edited by Weissmueller.

Approximately 9:40 minutes.

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[bajoverga]

Reason, cut the shit about about anti-semitism and violence...

[spoiledkaarus]

Please stop watching this cartoon..... please go back to watching AMERICAN IDOL,LADY GAGA, DANCING WITH THE STARS, and SARAH PALIN reality shows. Whatever you do, dont watch anything like this that makes you ask questions and think for yourselves!!!

Yours truly,

Obama (and friends)

[AkivaII]

As to the question, why should Jews be off limits, it really is about the Golden Rule. If you exist within a disposition of unjustified hatred against yourself, would you be content with media that potentially furthers that hatred?

[felpaluche]

He's overacting.

[successfulbuild]

@felixjazzage But Nader isn't even a Democrat and he's outside the mainstream. You whine about me using the Mises Institute to represent Libertarians, but the Nader group is even smaller among progressives.

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This little "Felix" troll hasn't made a SINGLE ENTRY worth reading and has nowhere made a coherent point.

[successfulbuild]

@felixjazzage Yes, it was dumb of Nader to sign that from what I can see. I have no idea why he tries to align with the nutty Libertarian movement so often, nor do I understand his position on immigration (which is restrictive). It has damaged his career. The problem with those petitions is that they're used by Libertarians to claim that it's proof "all these serious people believe it was an inside job" -- thus exploiting the families who they claim they're trying to help.

[successfulbuild]

@felixjazzage OK. I just watched that and nowhere does Ralph Nader imply that it was an inside job. As for the 2004 petition -- which was also signed by a Libertarian candidate for president -- it implied that there should be an investigation to see if anything could have been done to prevent it. If the Bush administration had knowledge that it was going to occur, they would have acted. However, mistakes may have been made that should have been picked up.

[felixjazzage]

@successfulbuild

Uhm, Mr. Computer Douche, I'd suggest you look up "Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader on 911 investigation." You also should know he was one of the celebrity signatories to the 9-11 Truth movement's main petitions (2004).

Are you seriously stating that REASON has a 9-11 truther editorial policy? I've been reading it for five years, and I've not read a single solitary article with such a slant.

[successfulbuild]

I'll give you computer science -- that is an area where Chomsky's linguistic work was applied by others (and still continues to be applied and taught). However, he has written on cognitive science and artificial intelligence (see some essays in Chomsky Reader, for example), and those writings have had an impact.

[successfulbuild]

@felixjazzage Ok, where does he go wrong then?

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And Chomsky is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and he has been on a few "top 100 scientists" list. Where is a Libertarian who has made any such lists? The only Libertarian scientist was that nut who wrote a history of π and claimed to have debunked Einstein on usenet.

[felixjazzage]

I have read some of Professor Chomsky's blatherings, but it's obvious you've never read REASON, despite your need to make blanket statements about its contents.