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The Fed should be dissolved Jim Rogers
You Tube/Jim Rogers ^ | 11/5//09

Posted on 11/06/2009 7:16:32 AM PST by FromLori

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Jim Rogers, chairman, Rogers Holdings, says that the US is the biggest debtor nation in the world


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: federalreserve; jimrogers

1 posted on 11/06/2009 7:16:32 AM PST by FromLori
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To: FromLori

While I think the Fed has screwed up...serious question...

If no Fed, what would replace it? What would serve its purpose?


2 posted on 11/06/2009 7:20:42 AM PST by RockinRight (Shove it down our throats in 2009, and we'll shove it up your a$$ in 2010.)
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To: RockinRight

How about if we returned to the gold standard or simply printed our own money and did not have to pay all the interest we do as a result of the fed?


3 posted on 11/06/2009 7:22:11 AM PST by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: FromLori
How about if we returned to the gold standard or simply printed our own money and did not have to pay all the interest we do as a result of the fed?

You know as well as I do that the international banks run the Fed.

If you shut down the Fed (or even credibly threaten to) then the world economy would collapse upon itself. The bankers control it all.

Plus the fact that this idea will never see the light of day since most all of the politicians on the finance committees receive huge financial incentives (read campaign contributions) from the banksters.

4 posted on 11/06/2009 7:26:37 AM PST by politicket (1 1/2 million attended Obama's coronation - only 14 missed work!)
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To: FromLori

I believe the fed to be unconstitutional. It is fiat money of which the founders knew to be a bad thing. It does not answer to the people, but to federal employees. It has powers of monopoly over the currency and the banking system.


5 posted on 11/06/2009 7:27:40 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: FromLori

How would lending work? That’s more my question...perhaps it’s my limited understanding, but even RESPONSIBLE lending (i.e., the kind that could reasonably be expected to be repaid) would be much more difficult, no?


6 posted on 11/06/2009 7:36:57 AM PST by RockinRight (Shove it down our throats in 2009, and we'll shove it up your a$$ in 2010.)
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To: RockinRight

We can’t even audit the Fed and find out where it sent over $1 trillion dollars of our taxpayer money. It is accountable to no one.


7 posted on 11/06/2009 7:40:03 AM PST by kabar
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To: politicket

I know they own our politicians and I know that is wrong. Thats the threat that the world would shut down well they are collapsing our economy anyway and it would be a temporary situation and then we could restore order.

Just think if our children and in my case grandchildren were not burdened with all that interest on the debt. But yes I know they will do everything in their power to stop this from happening.


8 posted on 11/06/2009 7:42:32 AM PST by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: kabar

That definitely needs to be done...


9 posted on 11/06/2009 7:44:26 AM PST by RockinRight (Shove it down our throats in 2009, and we'll shove it up your a$$ in 2010.)
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To: RockinRight

what would replace it? The Free Market will come up with a solution


10 posted on 11/06/2009 7:48:43 AM PST by 4rcane
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To: RockinRight
What is the fed’s purpose? To fix interest rates, which is anti free market. Its other purpose is to be the lender of last resort, in other words, to bail out entities that should fail. Let the market decide interest rates, let bad companies fail. When the government spends too much and no one will buy their bonds, let them cut back on spending.
11 posted on 11/06/2009 7:53:03 AM PST by FightThePower! (Fight the powers that be!)
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To: RockinRight

Well actually North Dakota has a state bank. I have to re-read all the details but it works quite well and North Dakota has the lowest unemployment and less problems then everywhere else. Maybe something like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_North_Dakota


12 posted on 11/06/2009 7:55:48 AM PST by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: 4rcane

a quick fix is to allow competing currency as legal tender and to remove any taxes from it


13 posted on 11/06/2009 7:56:52 AM PST by 4rcane
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To: RockinRight

What is the Fed’s purpose do you say?


14 posted on 11/06/2009 7:57:02 AM PST by bvw
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To: RockinRight

The Fed is not unconstitutional, but the US Treasury’s relationship with it is, as is Congress’s lack of authorizing or permitting a real money. The Fed is just another private enterprise.

However as a private enterprise, the Federal Reserve is criminal. A fraud, a conspiracy to defraud.


15 posted on 11/06/2009 8:01:33 AM PST by bvw
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To: FromLori
From the US Constituionm, Art I, Sec X:

No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

A Gold Standard seems pretty good to me. Fiat money and credit have been the cause of death of many civilizations.

16 posted on 11/06/2009 8:34:17 AM PST by Macoozie (Go Sarah! Palin/Bolton 2012)
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To: Macoozie

Sounds good to me anything but the fed. Did you see Bloombergs take on it?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=amqH8lCSKz7E


17 posted on 11/06/2009 8:37:50 AM PST by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: Macoozie

We are borrowing this money system from private banks when instead we should own the system, not rent it. Our government has the sovereign power to issue money (Art.1, Sect.8)


18 posted on 11/06/2009 8:41:24 AM PST by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: bvw
The Fed is part of the shadow government which runs things. It is a privite organization which now rules the USA through the head of gold. Follow the money and you will know the root of evil. The money is created by the Fed and flows through the Fed. It is all federal reserve notes now.

We are fed by the Fed and it will kill us unless we long for the truth. We were a Nation created under God. Let us remember that when Obama comes and says worship him. Obama and the Fed serve Satan. We serve God.

19 posted on 11/06/2009 8:48:28 AM PST by Armaggedon
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