Posted on 05/26/2010 8:24:43 AM PDT by Nachum
A seat on the U.S Federal Reserve Board, carries tremendous power. The seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. A full term is fourteen years. During that time, a board member can influence the financial policies of the world's most powerful economy. In some ways the seven men and women, have more power than Congress or even the President himself.
That's why appointments to the Federal Reserve Board deserve as much scrutiny as those to the Supreme Court.
President Barack Obama recently made three nominations to the Federal Reserve Board, Janet Yellen, Peter Diamond and Sarah Bloom Raskin.
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The list, ping
Why aren’t more Americans demanding to know whose behind this tyranny?
Yet another reason to AUDIT THE FED!
Great minds and all that (I was just over at NZ checking out Trevor’s latest postings. The guy is a ‘global treasure’....lol. This bit was interesting too:
http://keywiki.org/blog/?p=318
I met Abner Mikva when I was in High School. He was just your basic Chicago lib.
Sounds like he is a full bore commie now....lol.
Sarah Raskin is one of the 39 people who unmasked Flynn
Speaking of Obama pick Sarah Bloom Raskin:
Jim Jordan Asks Rep. Jamie Raskin Why His Wife Unmasked Michael Flynn
7/30/2020, 6:49:42 AM · by knighthawk · 15 replies
Breitbart ^ | July 29 2020 | KRISTINA WONG
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Wednesday, during a contentious exchange at a hearing, asked fellow committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) why his wife, a former Treasury Department official, unmasked Michael Flynn. Jordan had just finished questioning Google CEO Sundar Pichai over the search engine’s bias against conservatives and whether he would commit to not interfering in the upcoming election to help Joe Biden. After Jordan finished his questioning, Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) called his concerns “fringe conspiracy theories.”
Speaking of Yellen:
U.S. could adopt carbon tax under a Biden presidency -ex-Fed Chair Yellen
10/8/2020, 8:21:43 AM · by Theoria · 23 replies
Reuters ^ | 08 Oct 2020 | Valerie Volcovici and Matthew Green
Former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said bipartisan concern over climate change could see the United States adopt a tax on carbon emissions, with the proceeds shared with households, if Democrat Joe Biden is elected President in November. Yellen, who served as Fed chair from 2014-2018, said the combination of social injustices exposed by the coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests, and wildfires in California, could boost support for the proposal. “There really is a new kind of recognition that you’ve got a society where capitalism is beginning to run amok and needs to be readjusted in order to...
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