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100 Years Ago: Why Bankers Created the Fed
The Mises Daily ^ | 12/23/2013 | Christopher Westley

Posted on 12/23/2013 3:22:13 PM PST by BfloGuy

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To: DannyTN
Congress the power to pass law

I suggest you expand on that a bit. Congress has the power to pass laws it is empowered to pass.

Article. I.

Section. 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

The Congress is empowered to enact legislation only within the enumerated powers.

Congress has no other constitutional powers.

61 posted on 12/23/2013 6:06:21 PM PST by MosesKnows (Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: plainshame
Has anyone ever seen the US dollar value rise 400-500% like gold and silver?

Well that's the whole point! A fixed supply of currency is stultifying. That's the theory, but a convincing one, I think.

62 posted on 12/23/2013 6:10:34 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew

No banker is in the business to be poor because they prey on people and governments.Didn’t your mother teach your that?


63 posted on 12/23/2013 6:13:36 PM PST by plainshame
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To: dr_lew

LOL!Your logic defies common sense.


64 posted on 12/23/2013 6:14:37 PM PST by plainshame
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To: BfloGuy
100 REASONS TO SHUT DOWN THE FED FOREVER!

http://www.silverdoctors.com/100-reasons-to-shut-down-the-fed-forever/#more-36553

65 posted on 12/23/2013 6:17:09 PM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: plainshame
LOL!Your logic defies common sense.

It makes sense to me that if the value of money soars, the holders of money are encouraged, to say the least, to hold on to it, and less and less money is available for circulation, until ultimately you have a handful of Scrooge McDucks lording it over an idle and destitute populace.

66 posted on 12/23/2013 6:32:48 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew

Right,The feds money only soars.LOL!


67 posted on 12/23/2013 6:35:17 PM PST by plainshame
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To: plainshame
No banker is in the business to be poor because they prey on people and governments.Didn’t your mother teach your that?

My mother idolized Roosevelt, and speculated in stocks.

As to poor bankers, what happened to them in the 1930's? Why did they go bust?

Since you're in a mood to teach, I'll let you tell me.

68 posted on 12/23/2013 6:41:37 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew

Your mother was a fool.


69 posted on 12/23/2013 6:44:52 PM PST by plainshame
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To: plainshame

You should know better than to say such a thing.


70 posted on 12/23/2013 6:54:00 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: plainshame

“...Your mother was a fool...”
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Did your mother have any children that were normal?


71 posted on 12/23/2013 6:56:23 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Alberta's Child; plainshame

>> “As the dollar inflates in value, the value of most assets also rise to match it over time.” <<

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And all personal wealth is slowly taxed out of existence.

Inflation is the enemy of freedom and personal wealth.


72 posted on 12/23/2013 6:56:27 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: dr_lew

When people are desperate they will do anything including getting involved in government Ponzi schemes to get out of their problems but it’s sad the government doesn’t come forward and say they created the problem along with the federal reserve to begin with.Government is the problem and will never be a solution.


73 posted on 12/23/2013 7:06:30 PM PST by plainshame
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To: dr_lew; plainshame

As the value of money has sunken to near nothing, the bankers are lording it over an unemployed former middle class that is rapidly approaching destitution.


74 posted on 12/23/2013 7:09:00 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: dr_lew

Theories will get you no where in the real world.


75 posted on 12/23/2013 7:18:35 PM PST by plainshame
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To: plainshame

They’ll ‘open the books’ any day now for that audit by Congress fed”. Any day now. Pretty soon.

It’s all abover board. Yep.


76 posted on 12/23/2013 8:16:43 PM PST by TurboZamboni ("PEACE ON EARTH TO MEN OF GOOD WILL".)
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To: plainshame
I didn't say they didn't go up. I said I have seen nothing close to the hyper inflation of a "95% decline" in purchasing power. Read what I wrote. last week gas was $2.98. In 1970. It was $.50. So that is an increase of $2.50 over 30 years, or less than 1% per year. And that includes the real hyperinflation of the late 70s ( as defined by prices rising 10% a year ).

To see the devaluation you claim, milk would be over $50 a gallon, gas over $200.

77 posted on 12/24/2013 4:28:43 AM PST by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: editor-surveyor
When you think about it, inflation mainly affects currency value, not "wealth." Don't confuse cash with wealth, because they are not the same.

If I own a business with $X million worth of assets, then there's not likely to be eroded by inflation over time. If anything, inflation works in my favor if the business finances its capital expenditures with long-term debt by effectively reducing the debt burden over time.

78 posted on 12/24/2013 5:16:24 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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To: Alberta's Child

Inflation affects wealth heavily, due to the way it is taxed.

Real estate is a good example. As inflation drives its imaginary value up, taxation extracts real value that will never be returned, regardless of the cycles of the economy.


79 posted on 12/24/2013 8:55:50 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: DannyTN

You can’t possibly mean that.


80 posted on 12/24/2013 9:55:19 AM PST by khelus
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