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who owns the federal reserve
federal reserve act of 1913
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No one person actually owns the federal reserve; it is a private company seperate from the country. I guess if anybody owns it; it is the people who own private shares of the company. Oh yes they do sell private shares to private banks who are probably made up of powerful people. It is a corporation. Why do you think they call Ben Bernanke fed president and chief?
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I think they did, so people would assume its owned by the government
Do you think the people who created it purposely named it "The Federal Reserve" so people think its owned by the Federal Government? Wasn't this Federal Reserve created secretly or something?
Yes, the Federal Reserve was created in secret. There are a ton of historical books on the topic but the best one I have found is "The Creature From Jekyll Island" (by G. Edward Griffin written in 1994). The 'Creature', of course, being the Federal Reserve and Jekyll Island being an island off the coast of Georgia. As the story goes, the representatives of the bankers (Rockefellers, Morgans, Rothschild, Warburg) met in secret there in 1910 to draft the Federal Reserve Act which was passed in 1913. As a public speaker I used to listen to said, "It's about as 'federal' as Federal Express and there are no reserves." The first draft was known as The Aldrich Bill but since Senator Nelson Aldrich was known to be in the pocket of the bankers it failed so it was off to Jekyll Island to draft a more 'strategically clever' bill. And that's the short story of how we got saddled with the Federal Reserve Act. A little factoid on Senator Aldrich is that he was also the father-in-law of whom? John D. Rockefeller Jr. who married the Senator's daughter. These guys like to keep all the wealth in the family, don't you know.
When I asked the question "who owns the federal reserve?" it was not like I didn't know. I was trying to determine who else knew within Mahalo since I was writing a how-to article on "How To Understand the Economy" and I needed five (5) other related Mahalo pages; couldn't find them but thanks for your contributions. Let's keep it going because this history needs to be more widespread. Why? What I included in my article submittal to Mahalo was a Frontline documentary (called "The Warning") on NetFlix having to do with the 2008 financial meltdown and the cause of it referring to derivatives. What's a deriviative? I thought you'd never ask. Derivatives are a totally unregulated global market estimated to be valued at $500 Trillion to $1 Quadrillion(!!). Yes! And a little known regulator by the name of Brooksley Born tried to give a 'Warning' about these instruments in 1998 and was basically shut down by the then Chairman of the Fed Alan Greenspan et al. The documentary concluded by making the point that these markets, despite all that we have learned, are '''still''' unregulated. Oh. And you're going to love this. Also at the end of the documentary is a scene of Greenspan testifying before Congress in October 2008, after he has retired and been replaced by Helicopter Ben Bernake, testifying that the 40-year model of how-the-world works he had been using was '''wrong'''! Oh great. Thanks Alan.
My next question, and feel free to ask your own, is why is Mr. Bernake referred to as Helicopter Ben?