Here a caller to the Thom Hartmann Show questions the continued existence of the Federal Reserve Bank which many people believe causes the economic problems it then pretends to rush in and solve. Thom replies to the caller and adds historical information about Richard Nixon taking the US off the gold standard:
As you know, Senator Aldrich along with bankers and corporate operatives met in
Say what you like about the famous aviator’s political leanings, here is what his father, Rep. Charles A. Lindbergh Sr, said about the signing of the US Federal Reserve Act in December 1913 (after most congress members had left DC for the holidays–to shove the bill through in spite of their opposition–or to give them political cover?):
“This Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth.
Popular ideas aren’t always correct ideas! So standing corrected am I as the following video explains a few things about the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States:
Given today’s conspiracy-theory-laden atmosphere, and if the above information is indeed the case, it might have been much smarter of the politicians and big bankers back in 1910 not to have met in secret on Jekyll Island,
Today a previous post of mine concerning Fedhead Ben Bernanke received a comment with a heads-up to an End the Fed campaign – that all of us write End the Fed across the pyramid with its all-seeing eye on the capstone – upon all our US bills (assuming you have a few.) And draft Rep. Ron Paul (whose Audit the Fed efforts seem to be gaining support these days) for a presidential run in 2012.My