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One of the reasons why the Fed fights an audit: A Bloomberg news investigation found that while the Treasury Department was pumping $700 billion into banks under the Troubled Asset [...]

The end of the government Ponzi scheme that has held up our faltering economy is coming. Only the timing is difficult to predict. One of the many signs is the [...]

The Federal Reserve is probably the least understood government agency (technically, it is not even a part of government). This intro by the Mises Institute provides background for an informative [...]

Inflation is beginning to break out all over. The government is beginning to look even sillier trying to deny that it is a problem. Joel Bowman provides the following commentary: [...]

James Grant Testifies On The Federal Reserve Before Ron Paul’s Committee On Monetary Policy (Congressional Video) From the DailyBail Video – Opening statement from James Grant – Mar. 17, 2011 [...]

Federal Reserve President Thomas Hoenig breaks ranks and sounds like Dylan Ratigan, Gerald Celente, Ron Paul or Murray Rothbard. Mr. Hoenig has always been a bit of a renegade, yet [...]

Things I never expect to hear include the following: Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi admit that George Bush was correct The Pope admits there is no God George Bush admits [...]

The new version of the song “Imagine:” “Imagine” Imagine no Bernanke It’s easy if you try. No Fed-hell below us, Bills not to the sky. Imagine all the people, With [...]

It is hard to disagree with this assessment as expressed on The Economic Collapse: An economic collapse is coming. The Federal Reserve can desperately try to keep all of the [...]

An academic analysis of the Federal Reserve by the Cato Institute. Share/Save Download article as PDF

From the NY Times, not exactly a critic of Obama, comes details of the complete failure of the G-20: After five largely harmonious meetings in the past two years to [...]