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The Federal Reserve Should Be Dismantled.
The fed charges interest on all the money it loans the U.S. And is responsible for inflationary business cycles. The constitution gives congress the power to print and regulate the value of money free of interest. Without the fed, the economy would be a bit slower but more consistent and inflation free.
 openurmind  04 Mar 2008 00:11
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I totally agree. Most of the people who are against it just aren't clear on the facts. Zeitgiest people.. Watch it! It will change your life. And every fact in it is researchable
 
 Organicman  02 Dec 2008 07:04
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You are 100% CORRECT! It serves no purpose other than to make rich people who do nothing richer, and to put the American people in DEBT by artificially controlling interest rates and they only lend money to their friends....like the Bear Stearns bailout....billions to their friends...and we pay for it!
 
 jimkerry  16 Jun 2008 08:02
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Econ101. The Fed controls inflation, they keep it at a slight inflation because deflation is MUCH worse. In order for an economy to grow, there needs to be inflation. Without the Fed economies would collapse.
 
 bishop  06 May 2008 21:52
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 How did you come to this conclusion?
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 10 May 2008 16:23
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I seriously doubt it would be inflation free. Virtually every industrialized country experiences inflation and business cycles and their central banks are differently structured so why would the US be any different? If the Fed charges interest on money it lends to the government, that is likely to dampen inflation rather than increase it. If the government could print free money without having any cost attached to it, they would probably do it even more than they do now, thus driving up inflation.
 
 Hidell  04 Mar 2008 01:28
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 All industrialized nations have virtually the same style central bank, they were all modeled off the bank of England.

How would charging interest dampen inflation? The fed prints money and member banks distribute and have the ability to create 10 times what they borrow so if they borrow 1000 dollars they can lend out 10,000 that is inflation. If congress had the power to coin money we could as the people hold them personally responsible for inflating the money supply, but the fed is a privately owned bank and is not liable to the people of this country.

So in essence we have given a private company a monopoly on printing our money at a fee.

The federal reserve act was passed in 1913 as was the income tax act. The income tax was set up to pay for the interest the government racks up by borrowing money.
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 04 Mar 2008 01:43
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