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To: fightinJAG
The COngress is supposed to empower the treasury to print money. When we borrow from the Federal Reserve Bank (Inc.), we pay them interest. We could just go back to printing United States Notes and have the treasury issue those promissory notes (in the usual 1-100 dollar denominations) and avoid all that interest.

If the Federal Reserve is talking about issuing debt, we'll be paying their interest, too.

2 posted on 12/10/2008 12:20:02 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

The venerable Richard Russell of Dow Theory Letters writes about the Fed:

“I still can’t get over the whole Federal Reserve racket.

Consider the following - - let’s take a situation where the U.S. government needs money. The U.S. doesn’t just issue United States Notes, which, of course it could. These notes would be dollars backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. No, the U.S. doesn’t issue dollars straight out of the U.S. Treasury.

This is what the U.S. does - - it issues Treasury Bonds. The U.S. then sells these bonds to the Fed. The Fed buys the bonds. Wait, how does the Fed pay for the bonds? The Fed simply creates money “out of thin air” (book-keeping entry) with which it buys the bonds. The money that the Fed creates from nowhere then goes to the U.S. The Fed holds the U.S. bonds, and the unbelievable irony is that the U.S. then pays interest on the very bonds that the U.S. itself issued. (With great profit to the private owners of The Fed - - Ed. Note) The mind boggles.

The damnable result is that the Fed effectively controls the U.S. money supply. The Fed is not even a branch of the U.S. government. The Fed is not mentioned in the Constitution of the United States. No Constitutional amendment was ever created or voted on to accept the Fed. The Constitutionality of the Federal Reserve has never come before the Supreme Court. The Fed is a private bank that keeps the U.S. forever in debt - - or I should say in increasing debt along with ever rising interest payments.

How did the Fed get away with this outrage? A tiny secretive group of bankers sneaked through a bill in 1913 at a time when many in Congress were absent. Those who were there and voted for the bill didn’t realize (as so often happens) what they were voting for.

Richard Russell, “Richards Remarks,”


3 posted on 12/10/2008 1:26:01 AM PST by jsh3180
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To: Smokin' Joe

The Fed returns all profits not needed for operations to the Gov at the end of each year. It is a substantial amount. If some of the bailouts don’t work the Fed won’t be returning that money, they’ll be using it to offset their losses.

This is a weird development.


7 posted on 12/10/2008 2:46:01 AM PST by Jack Black (ping can't be a tag line, can it?)
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To: Smokin' Joe

The Fed returns all profits not needed for operations to the Gov at the end of each year. It is a substantial amount. If some of the bailouts don’t work the Fed won’t be returning that money, they’ll be using it to offset their losses.

This is a weird development.


8 posted on 12/10/2008 2:46:14 AM PST by Jack Black (ping can't be a tag line, can it?)
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