Liberty MavenRon Paul on How the Federal Reserve Rips You Off
September 18th, 2009 1:41 pm | by Mike Miller | Published in Bailouts, Banking, Big Government, congress, Constitution, Debt, Economics, Federal Reserve, Free Market, gold standard, inflation, Liberty, Money, Politics, Ron Paul | 6 Responses
The American Conservative has posted an except of Ron Paul’s new book End the Fed in which Paul gives a short history of our nation’s monetary policy and how the Fed came to be. Then of course he goes on to explain why the Fed is the #1 culprit in why our currency has lost 95% of its value in the past 95 years.
But how much do we really know about what goes on inside the Fed? Even with the newest round of bailouts, journalists had difficulty determining where the money was coming from and where it was headed. From its founding in 1913, secrecy and inside deals have been part of the way the Fed works.
It says that its job is to keep inflation in check. But this is like the car industry claiming to control road congestion. The Fed might attempt to stop the effects of inflation, namely rising prices. But under the old definition of inflation—an artificial increase in the supply of money and credit—the reason for its existence is to generate more, not less.
The banking industry has always had trouble with the idea of a free market that provides opportunities for both profits and losses. The first part, the industry likes. The second is another matter. That is the reason for the constant drive in American history toward the centralization of money, a trend that not only benefits the largest banks with the most to lose from a sound-money system, but also the government, which is able to use an elastic system as an alternative form of revenue support.
Whenever instability turns up, we see efforts to socialize the losses, but rarely do people question the source of instability. Economist Jesús Huerta de Soto places the blame on the institution of fractional-reserve banking. This is the notion that depositors’ money in use as cash may also be loaned out for speculative projects, then re-deposited. The system works as long as people do not attempt to withdraw their money all at once. In the face of such a demand, banks turn to other banks to provide liquidity. But when the failure becomes system-wide, they turn to government.
Read the full excerpt here, and then purchase the hardcover version of End the Fed for only $12.09 here.
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January 9th, 2011 at 10:35 pm (#)
The national economy, since 1913, is based upon a Ponzi scheme.
Every “dollar” in circulation is created based upon debt. Congress gives T-securities (bills, bonds, or notes) to the Federal Reserve, and the Fed credits the Treasury’s account with the value of the securities. Voila !!! New fiat money. Congress can spend up to the limit of the account and the Fed will honor the checks.
The problem is that the arrangement obligates the US to pay interest on the principal thus generated. The interest has never been generated. It does not exist. It is impossible to culminate the agreement. The only way the interest can be paid is to generate more principal and pay the interest on the initial securities from the principal on the later securities. It is the classic Ponzi, par excellence.
Mathematical details on the rip-off by the Fed, including how the Fed obtains the ENTIRE VALUE of ALL issued securities (off of the accounting records) is posted at http://www.scribd.com/doc/43482648/rip-off-by-the…
and http://www.scribd.com/doc/43465593/QE2-Rational-C…
January 9th, 2011 at 10:35 pm (#)
The national economy, since 1913, is based upon a Ponzi scheme.
Every “dollar” in circulation is created based upon debt. Congress gives T-securities (bills, bonds, or notes) to the Federal Reserve, and the Fed credits the Treasury’s account with the value of the securities. Voila !!! New fiat money. Congress can spend up to the limit of the account and the Fed will honor the checks.
The problem is that the arrangement obligates the US to pay interest on the principal thus generated. The interest has never been generated. It does not exist. It is impossible to culminate the agreement. The only way the interest can be paid is to generate more principal and pay the interest on the initial securities from the principal on the later securities. It is the classic Ponzi, par excellence.
Mathematical details on the rip-off by the Fed, including how the Fed obtains the ENTIRE VALUE of ALL issued securities (off of the accounting records) is posted at http://www.scribd.com/doc/43482648/rip-off-by-the…
and http://www.scribd.com/doc/43465593/QE2-Rational-C…
January 9th, 2011 at 10:35 pm (#)
The national economy, since 1913, is based upon a Ponzi scheme.
Every “dollar” in circulation is created based upon debt. Congress gives T-securities (bills, bonds, or notes) to the Federal Reserve, and the Fed credits the Treasury’s account with the value of the securities. Voila !!! New fiat money. Congress can spend up to the limit of the account and the Fed will honor the checks.
The problem is that the arrangement obligates the US to pay interest on the principal thus generated. The interest has never been generated. It does not exist. It is impossible to culminate the agreement. The only way the interest can be paid is to generate more principal and pay the interest on the initial securities from the principal on the later securities. It is the classic Ponzi, par excellence.
Mathematical details on the rip-off by the Fed, including how the Fed obtains the ENTIRE VALUE of ALL issued securities (off of the accounting records) is posted at http://www.scribd.com/doc/43482648/rip-off-by-the…
and http://www.scribd.com/doc/43465593/QE2-Rational-C…
January 9th, 2011 at 10:35 pm (#)
The national economy, since 1913, is based upon a Ponzi scheme.
Every “dollar” in circulation is created based upon debt. Congress gives T-securities (bills, bonds, or notes) to the Federal Reserve, and the Fed credits the Treasury’s account with the value of the securities. Voila !!! New fiat money. Congress can spend up to the limit of the account and the Fed will honor the checks.
The problem is that the arrangement obligates the US to pay interest on the principal thus generated. The interest has never been generated. It does not exist. It is impossible to culminate the agreement. The only way the interest can be paid is to generate more principal and pay the interest on the initial securities from the principal on the later securities. It is the classic Ponzi, par excellence.
Mathematical details on the rip-off by the Fed, including how the Fed obtains the ENTIRE VALUE of ALL issued securities (off of the accounting records) is posted at http://www.scribd.com/doc/43482648/rip-off-by-the…
and http://www.scribd.com/doc/43465593/QE2-Rational-C…
January 9th, 2011 at 10:35 pm (#)
The national economy, since 1913, is based upon a Ponzi scheme.
Every “dollar” in circulation is created based upon debt. Congress gives T-securities (bills, bonds, or notes) to the Federal Reserve, and the Fed credits the Treasury’s account with the value of the securities. Voila !!! New fiat money. Congress can spend up to the limit of the account and the Fed will honor the checks.
The problem is that the arrangement obligates the US to pay interest on the principal thus generated. The interest has never been generated. It does not exist. It is impossible to culminate the agreement. The only way the interest can be paid is to generate more principal and pay the interest on the initial securities from the principal on the later securities. It is the classic Ponzi, par excellence.
Mathematical details on the rip-off by the Fed, including how the Fed obtains the ENTIRE VALUE of ALL issued securities (off of the accounting records) is posted at http://www.scribd.com/doc/43482648/rip-off-by-the…
and http://www.scribd.com/doc/43465593/QE2-Rational-C…
January 9th, 2011 at 10:35 pm (#)
The national economy, since 1913, is based upon a Ponzi scheme.
Every “dollar” in circulation is created based upon debt. Congress gives T-securities (bills, bonds, or notes) to the Federal Reserve, and the Fed credits the Treasury’s account with the value of the securities. Voila !!! New fiat money. Congress can spend up to the limit of the account and the Fed will honor the checks.
The problem is that the arrangement obligates the US to pay interest on the principal thus generated. The interest has never been generated. It does not exist. It is impossible to culminate the agreement. The only way the interest can be paid is to generate more principal and pay the interest on the initial securities from the principal on the later securities. It is the classic Ponzi, par excellence.
Mathematical details on the rip-off by the Fed, including how the Fed obtains the ENTIRE VALUE of ALL issued securities (off of the accounting records) is posted at http://www.scribd.com/doc/43482648/rip-off-by-the…
and http://www.scribd.com/doc/43465593/QE2-Rational-C…