Sure! I'll mention just the first one that comes to mind, here, and then give it some additional research:
Former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin used her first trip to Asia to attack the Federal Reserve for creating asset bubbles and encouraging excessive risk-taking that hurt working-class Americans.
The Fed and the government sent a message to companies that “the bigger that you are, the more problems that you get yourself into, the more likely the government is to bail you out,” Palin said in the closed door speech, according to a tape of the event given to Bloomberg News. “Of course the little guys are left out then. We’re left holding the bag, all the moms and pops all over America.”
Palin criticized Obama’s plan to give the Fed powers to monitor risks to the financial system. A meltdown last year led to $1.6 trillion of bank losses and writedowns and triggered a global recession.
“How can we think that setting up the Fed as monitor of systemic risk in the financial sector will result in meaningful reform,” she said. “The words ‘fox’ and ‘henhouse’ come to mind.”
While much blame must be laid at the feet of pork-barreling Congressmen and Imperial Presidents, I submit that The Federal Reserve's ability to serve as the Government's constant "lender of last resort", by directly monetizing the Government's debt if necessary, and the corrosive devaluing effects these policies have on the value of the currency, as well as the work and saving ethics... altogether makes the Federal Reserve perhaps one-third to one-half responsible for the extreme depth and severity of our current financial problems and dangers. And, as noted, steady corrosion of the value (i.e., "trustworthiness") of a society's money money is not even completely innocent of baneful effects on that society's public morals, as well.
By attacking this most sacrosanct of Big Government institutions, Sarah Palin does seem to have her heart in the right place on this important issue -- which is to say, she's rightly skeptical of the Fed and its operations. "Who is that man behind the curtain, anyway?"
As the author of the linked article says: "...'we the people' finally get to learn more about the 'Hockey Mom' from Alaska. And so far ... I like what I'm hearing!"
Thanks, me too!
Palin can beat Obama and win in 2012 if the right can resist running or encouraging a third party.