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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
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- Subject: Re: Federal Reserve Bank and Jews
- Keywords: Clarification
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.152927.10728@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 15:29:27 GMT
- References: <1993Jan13.154811.2262@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan13.213303.9252@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan22.104145.2696@StarConn.com>
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- In article <1993Jan22.104145.2696@StarConn.com> rburns@StarConn.com (Randall J. Burns) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan13.213303.9252@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>> >}1) It's false. The Federal Reserve is owned and fully controlled
- >>> >} by the United States government.
- >This is a blatant falsehood and misrepresentation.
-
- An exaggeration perhaps, but not a misrepresentation.
-
- The US Treasury receives 90% of any profits of the Federal Reserve, and
- has strict requirements as to how the other 10% is reinvested in the FRB.
-
- The Boards of Directors of the bank are controlled by the government,
- rather than by the shareholders.
-
- Someone can indeed buy shares in a Federal Reserve Bank (I was mistaken
- in saying they couldn't), but such a person with "ownership" has close
- to no say in how the Bank is actually run.
-
- The government has as much leverage against the FRB as they choose to
- exercise.
-
- >1) Many "professionals" have called private ownership an atavism
- > and have called for full scale nationalization of the Federal
- > reserve.
- >2) The formal structure of the federal reserve has consistently shitfed
- > from starting essentially as a "bankers cooperative" to being
- > something with more formal goverment control.
- >3) Even today, member banks have _very_ important rights within the
- > control of the federal reserve. (i.e. 2/3 of the directors of the
- > regional banks are elected by the member banks-only 1/3 are elected
- > by the board of governors which is appointed by the president).
-
- Note that member banks are merely those which comply with FRB regulations.
-
- >4) There is a very imporant _informal_ structure to the federal reserve-
- > and any central bank. You rarely see dramatic changes in central
- > banking administration(and when you do it almost always fails). Even
- > formal nationalization of a central bank means little if all the same
- > people are still running the show.
- >
- >For some non-racist arguments against central banking (and descriptions
- >of how central banking can be misused see either)
- >1) The Occult Technology of Power(Loompanics Press).
- >2) Ludwig von Mises Institute publications(They are at Auburn
- >University).
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