Timeline for How much control over the Federal Reserve does the U.S. Government have? [closed]
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| Aug 2, 2017 at 2:59 | comment | added | user662852 | If the OP "can hardly believe that it did manage to survive for almost a century" check out how monetary policy worked in the US for the century before the Fed. For example, you don't see political parties named for monetary policy anymore (Greenback, Free Silver, etc). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenback_Party | |
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| Jan 8, 2011 at 15:32 | history | edited | Chris W. Rea | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jan 8, 2011 at 7:22 | comment | added | mbhunter | Completely opposite to Matthew Read's comment, I recommend a course in Austrian economics. It will expose the Fed for what it is: a bunch of large banks that exist for the benefit of a bunch of large banks. | |
| Jan 8, 2011 at 7:21 | comment | added | mbhunter | "Who does the Fed report to?" That's a very good question indeed. | |
| Jan 8, 2011 at 2:37 | answer | added | duffbeer703 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 7, 2011 at 23:03 | vote | accept | matcheek | ||
| Jan 7, 2011 at 19:44 | comment | added | matcheek | It's not the fact that it's central that bothers me, rather the fact that this is a profit-driven institution, isn't it? Also it has a very bizarre foundations. | |
| Jan 7, 2011 at 19:04 | answer | added | Muro | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 7, 2011 at 18:33 | comment | added | Matthew Read | Every country has a central bank. (Well, maybe not every, but literally 99% of all countries, and every major one). There's nothing special about the Fed. I recommend a course in Keynesian macroeconomics :) | |
| Jan 7, 2011 at 18:30 | answer | added | Randy Minder | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jan 7, 2011 at 17:15 | answer | added | John Weldon | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jan 7, 2011 at 17:06 | history | asked | matcheek | CC BY-SA 2.5 |