Thread: The idiot in charge of our central bank

Originally Posted by Durandal

It seems terribly criminal to me for a bank to lend a nation its own national currency at interest.

do you realize that the federal reserve gives all of its net-profits to the government?

Originally Posted by Durandal

I can't believe we really have this system! It seems mind-bogglingly stupid to me that our nation is in debt to a private bank for its very currency, the money I earn and spend, and that we - the American taxpayers - are paying these $300 billion interest payments to that private bank. W T F ! ! ? ? CRIMINAL! We went from gold to this?? Dumb, dumb, DUMB!

evidently you haven't taken any economics classes