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“Fed up, An Insider’s Take On Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America”

Big Al
April 29, 2017

This interview will air next week on our network of radio stations.

“Danielle DiMartino Booth has written an informed, thoughtful, eye-opening—and justifiably angry—memoir of her days at the Federal Reserve. A monetary broadside for our populist world.”

James Grant, publisher of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer

 

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Danielle DiMartino Booth, Fed UP: An Insider's Guide to Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America

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58 Comments
    CFS
    Apr 29, 2017 29:42 PM

    What you did not ask Ms. DMB is with what, if anything, would she replace the Fed, and does she really trust politicians to be solely in charge of the money supply?

      Apr 29, 2017 29:35 PM

      Next time!

        CFS
        Apr 29, 2017 29:59 PM

        thanks, it’s a tricky problem.
        I don’t really trust the Fed, but I know I don’t trust many politicians.

        I tend to believe our founding fathers were some of the most intelligent men.

      Apr 29, 2017 29:32 PM

      We don’t need to replace the FED. The central bank is a Marxist concept and, therefore, evil. We need to define a unit of value, such as a certain weight and purity of some precious metal, and enforce the laws against false weights and measures.

        Apr 29, 2017 29:17 PM

        Why is the Fed a privately owned company owned by participating private banks, in turn, owned by private wealth controlling economic policy for a sovereign nation, obligating future earnings, and doing so in secret and without audit. They have no motivation to protect the citizens of the US, but act only in the interest of its private owners.

          b
          Apr 30, 2017 30:17 PM

          Why? Because after Jackson there was nobody with enough influence to stop the Zionists.
          Thanks Woodrow, best president ever.
          According to the Zionists of course.

          May 01, 2017 01:42 AM

          Look to Israel …….per BIX WEIR

            May 01, 2017 01:43 AM

            Stanley Fischer calling the shot……per Bix Weir…….Stanley was a x Israeli central banker.

      Apr 29, 2017 29:36 PM

      A free market can only exist among a people of faith. God withholds His blessings from the faithless by giving them false gods like Yellen who make slaves of the people by stealing the fruit of their labor.

        May 01, 2017 01:44 AM

        yellen in only a goof ball……taking orders from her owners…….

        May 01, 2017 01:07 PM

        Seriously, what an interesting comment Wayne!

    Apr 29, 2017 29:44 PM

    Dang Owl……you are finally catching on………. 🙂

      Apr 29, 2017 29:46 PM

      Fed Up…….

        Apr 29, 2017 29:51 PM

        LONG TERM BUY GOLD……….

          Apr 29, 2017 29:25 PM

          FEd feeds the warmongers………..

            Apr 29, 2017 29:36 PM

            It would appear that way, OOTB

      Apr 29, 2017 29:37 PM

      I actually caught up a long time ago, OOTB. But then again, you know that!

    Apr 29, 2017 29:33 PM

    It seems to me that the Federal Reserve was created to curb speculation, to aid business and the government so that they had a decent rate for funds and to facilitate world trade and avoid market meltdowns, unfortunately it is one of those situations where the idea seems great but in practical terms it doesn’t work. The market needs to regulate itself and if it creates a crash every so many years so be it, that is what worked before and will work again.

      Apr 29, 2017 29:09 PM

      DT, central banks are set up to plunder and enslave society for the benefit of a super elite few. Total control is the name of the game.

      “It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.”
      ― Ron Paul, End the Fed

      “Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.”
      ― Carl Menger

      “Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and through its Board of Governors manipulates the credit of the United States.”
      —Sen. Barry Goldwater in With No Apologies (1979), p. 282.

      Last but far from least…

      “Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal reserve banks. The Federal Reserve Board, a Government board, has cheated the Government of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt. The depredations and the iniquities of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal reserve banks acting together have cost this country enough money to pay the national debt several times over. This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of the United States; has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through defects of the law under which it operates, through the maladministration of that law by the Federal Reserve Board and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.”
      —Rep. Louis T. McFadden, former Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency. Congressional Record 12595-12603 (10 June 1932).

        Apr 29, 2017 29:13 PM

        Remember, this was a former bank president and member of the Republican Party speaking! McFadden added:

        “From the Atlantic to the Pacific our country has been ravaged and laid waste by the evil practices of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks and the interests which control them … This is an era of economic misery, and for the conditions that caused that misery, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks are fully liable.”
        https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/louis-t-mcfadden-1876-1936-an-american-hero-by-richard-c-cook/

          Apr 29, 2017 29:54 PM

          Matthew, I can’t disagree with your quotes all I can say is I’m glad you pointed it out. I can always count on you to paint the picture with a black brush. LOL!

        Apr 30, 2017 30:15 PM

        Matthew is spot on………..

    Apr 29, 2017 29:46 PM

    Forget the book and THE FED Mrs. Booth is a beauuuutiful woman.! wowweee…::)

    CFS
    Apr 29, 2017 29:14 PM

    It seems to me that the Federal Reserve really does nothing that the Treasury could not do.

    However it does provide an extra degree of separation between the money printing and the politicians.

    Is it worth the extra cost? Probably not.
    But without that degree of separation would excessive printing of money occur more frequently? Probably.

    The real question then is more probably…..How can the politicians be constrained better if the Fed were abolished?

    Is there any constitutional amendment a politician/the President not choose to ignore or side-step?
    Balance budget laws have never worked.
    Corrupt politicians still get re-elected all the time
    Many people truly believe HRC should be in jail, but she was almost re-elected

    Apr 30, 2017 30:14 AM

    A 56 minute video everyone should watch………..
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-29/all-plenarys-men

    CFS
    Apr 30, 2017 30:40 AM

    A fireside chat with Danielle Dimartino Booth:

    https://youtu.be/OQ6LPm8HtdQ

      Apr 30, 2017 30:18 PM

      “boomer have no place to hide”…….

        Apr 30, 2017 30:19 PM

        like this is a revelation ……..she finally shows up at the KER…..

        Apr 30, 2017 30:21 PM

        oh, I am glad she is a guest…..and been part of the FED…..give some validation to what many have been talking about for YEARS.

          May 01, 2017 01:16 PM

          you got it OOTB!

      Apr 30, 2017 30:22 PM

      thanks for the post……enjoyed………OOTB

      May 01, 2017 01:15 PM

      thanks CFS, I did watch it.

    CFS
    Apr 30, 2017 30:46 AM

    https://youtu.be/k5z-Re9COt8

    try this one instead

    Apr 30, 2017 30:16 PM

    CFS,
    Thanks for the video…I wonder if Janet Yellen can put that video up for all to see before she give those stupid gobbledeegook press conference after each FED meeting

      May 01, 2017 01:41 AM

      She is a stone cold idiot…..someone in the fed/ members are telling her what to do, ….like “just act stupid”

    CFS
    Apr 30, 2017 30:02 PM

    https://youtu.be/tMcSeE0ress?t=1271

    Mike Maloney on the Fed.

      May 01, 2017 01:18 PM

      Can just imagine what would happen if they actually tried to do that!

    May 01, 2017 01:58 AM

    HO,HO,HO……..Congress passes funding bill…….Till Oct 1…..told ya, they would, they want their pay checks. Nothing has changed and it is not going to change…….Debt going up to $25 Trillion. Going much higher just to cover the kick backs ,special interest, after all, Obama speaking Fee are $400,000 per hour and who pays for that……..Rant of the morning….or just a half rant.

      May 01, 2017 01:59 AM

      Like Trump said………..going to be HUGE……… or read between the lines…lol

    May 01, 2017 01:35 AM

    Stanley Fischer…….is ex Israeli Central Banker…..second in command at FED ….but really calling the shots……Bix Weir

      May 01, 2017 01:37 AM

      Since no one knows who owns the FED(except the fed owers)…this should be an eye opener……jmho

      May 01, 2017 01:23 PM

      Goggle the article that Forbes came out with regrading Mr. Fischer.

        May 01, 2017 01:07 PM

        thanks OWL…….read the article……..seems he is good at blowing bubbles, causing the Israeli housing market to be over priced with low interest rates, caused rents to explode, and inflation to rise.

          May 01, 2017 01:10 PM

          Wonder if he has an American and Israel citizenship …

    May 01, 2017 01:10 AM

    SLV down 11 days in a row and closing 5 days under the bollinger bands? That is completely unnatural behavior.

      May 01, 2017 01:36 AM

      You might want to visit .. silver stealers.net article…..silver is not going anywhere as long as the CFTC does not do enforcement… the election by TRUMP who picked Chris Goanccarlo Head of the CFTC, who happened to be Vanderbilt Family Agent, Trump has no plan to see gold and silver in a free market.
      All this is tied together. Historically and politically …….

    May 01, 2017 01:15 AM

    SLV’s 3 day RSI is under 1 now. That is extreme. I wouldn’t expect some sort of rocket ride back upwards. This looks a lot like late November 2015, where silver was down an absurd number of days in a row and didn’t bottom out until a month later.

    May 01, 2017 01:19 AM

    AXU’s 50 day EMA about to cross below the 200 day ema. That is a terrible sign IMO, if you see how solid an indicator it has been in the past of bull vs bear.

      May 01, 2017 01:25 PM

      Thanks for our input Spanky!

    May 01, 2017 01:22 AM

    GCC up solidly today so far, which is a good sign. Not out of the woods by any means though. May just be a backtest of the neckline.

    May 01, 2017 01:34 AM

    $17.06 silver……….smashing again as they can until they do not……..JPM the govt/fed whore until they pass the torch..

      May 01, 2017 01:38 AM

      $17.03….hello $16.99

        May 01, 2017 01:10 AM

        oops…….$16.89……..time to start the engine on the truck….buy of a lifetime coming.