Federal
Reserve
Test Your FED I.Q.
Answer True or False
1. The Federal Reserve System is an Agency of the Federal Government?
2. The Fed has the exclusive authority to print and issue all U.S. currency?
3. Interest on money loaned by the Fed to its member banks is used to reduce the
Federal Draft?
4. The Fed is restricted to an amount of currency it can print by a specified amount
of gold held as reserves?
5. The books of the Fed are audited on an annual basis and are of public record?
6. The Fed is responsible for loan losses such as the banking debacle of the late
1980’s?
7. Although the President appoints the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, the
Chairman acts independently?
8. The Fed sets interest rates?
9. The Fed confines its monetary activities strictly to the U.S.?
10. Americans can benefit from an understanding of how the Fed works?
Answers to: Test Your FED IQ
1. False. The Federal Reserve System was created by the
Federal Reserve Act, and passed by both houses of Congress just prior to Christmas recess
on December 22, 1913. Section 5 of the Act calls for a member bank to buy and hold stock
in a district Federal Reserve Bank equal to 6% of its capital and surplus. For example, as
of 1983, ten major New York City banks owned approximately 66% of the outstanding stock in
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That Bank in turn owns a portion of the stock in the
Federal Reserve Bank of the U.S. together with the eleven regional member banks. A review
of the major stockholders of the ten New York city banks clearly shows that a few families
related by blood, marriage or business interests control those 10 New York city banks,
which in turn, hold the controlling stock in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In
addition, approximately 38% of the stock of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (as of
1983) was held by banks that are subsidiaries of foreign banks, namely the House of
Rothschild which controls the Bank of England. The fact that the Federal Reserve System is
controlled by private interests is one of the best kept secrets in American history.
2. False. Article 1, Sec. 8 of the U.S. Constitution provides
that "The Congress shall have power to borrow money on the credit of the United
States...and to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the
Standard of Weights and Measures." According to the National Recovery Act (NRA)
decision in the 1930’s, Congress can not delegate the power to coin money to the
Federal Reserve System. However, during the great depression and during Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s first term as President, the U.S. went off the gold standard and gold and
silver Treasury Certificates were gradually replaced by Federal Reserve Notes Which are
"coined" by the Fed in violation of the Constitution.
3. False. Prior to 1933, the Federal Reserve Act required that a
portion of the earnings of the Federal Reserve Banks go to the government, but the banks
never complied. The Banking Act of 1933 legislated that all earnings of the Federal
Reserve Banks go to the banks themselves. The assets of the Federal Reserve Banks
increased from $143 million dollars in 1913 to $45 billion dollars in 1949, which enriched
all of the shareholders of the banks. There is no evidence that the law or the method of
accounting of earnings has changed since 1949.
4. False. The Fed has no restriction on the amount of money it can
create since the U.S. went off the gold standard in the 1930’s. As Congressman Wright
Patman said in 1964, " The dollar represents a one dollar debt to the Federal Reserve
System. The Federal Reserve Banks create money out of thin air to buy Government Bonds
from the U.S. Treasury...and has created out of nothing a ....debt which the American
people are obliged to pay with interest." In 1958 the U.S. owned $700 million ounces
of gold. Today the nations bullion reserves have dwindled to a mere 281,000,000 ounces
($100 billion dollars) which is minuscule in relationship to the amount of paper currency
in circulation and the amount of Treasury debt. The goal of the Fed is to make gold
irrelevant as a measure of monetary value so it can continue to print an unlimited amount
of paper currency.
5. False. Despite numerous attempts by Congressman Wright Patman
and others who have called for an audit of the books of the Federal Reserve System, no
audit has been made available to the public since the System was founded in 1913. On March
1, 1982, the Arizona State Legislature, as well as a number of other states passed a
resolution calling for the abolishment of the Federal Reserve System. All efforts to
expose and change the System have been thwarted.
6. False. Easy, Fed monetary policy in the late 1970’s led to
double digit inflation and a prime rate that eventually reached 21.5% in 1981. This caused
the collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry. Congress, accommodating the banking lobby,
passed the Garn-St Germain Act to bail out the Savings and Loans. Stimulated by a rush of
new money created by the Fed, attractive real estate tax laws, and the authority to
directly invest in real estate deals, the Savings and Loans quickly created a speculative
bubble of overvalued real estate. By 1990 the massive amount of bad real estate loans
caused a banking crisis. The Resolution Trust Corp. was formed to market foreclosed real
estate, and the biggest write down of real estate assets since the Great Depression began.
Thus, in a period of 12 years, the Fed was obliged to bail out both the Savings and Loan
and the banking industries as a direct result of its own monetary policy. Incredibly, the
losses were absorbed, not by the Fed, but by the taxpayers and the shareholders of the
local institutions that collapsed. Millions of Americans went bankrupt in the early
1990’s and to this day don’t understand what happened.
7. False. The history of the Federal Reserve System in the U.S. is
a study of money and power and its ability to determine world events. A small group of
elitists, their successors and assigns have been able to influence public opinion through
control of the media, elect or discharge Presidents and politicians, make wars and cause
economic booms and busts. Neither the President of the U.S., nor the Chairman of The
Federal Reserve Board act independently. They both hold office at the discretion of those
who control the Federal Reserve System and those wealthy elitists who are intent on
establishing a New World order. Alan Greenspan said in 1966 "The abandonment of the
gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a
means to an unlimited expansion of credit."
Greenspan’s view changed dramatically after he became a director of J.P. Morgan and
Co. and later the Fed Chairman.
8. False. The markets and the demand for money ultimately determine
interest rates. The fed sets in the Discount Rate (the rate at which member banks borrow
from the Fed) and the Fed Funds Rate. (the rate which banks charge each other on overnight
funds) Both of these rates are short-term interest rates. At present the Fed is increasing
these rates while at the same time maintaining that inflation is only 2.6% and not a
problem. Low rates and an increase in the money supply have fueled a "speculative
bubble" in the stock market. Additional increases in rates could slow the economy and
cause a market crash. The Fed has found itself again in a dilemma which it created.
9. False. The fed has acted directly as bank of "last
resort." Normally, loans to other countries would be made by the International
Monetary Fund, the Bank of International Settlements or other entities which are primarily
funded by the Fed. In the case of Mexico, however, the Fed made a loan directly to that
country after the President by-passed Congress and issued an Executive Order. Reliable
sources indicate that the Fed has recently delivered approximately $40 billion newly
printed $100 bills to Russian banks which are controlled by the Russian Mafia. Since 1940
the U.S. dollar has lost 94% of its value. The prolific printing of our currency, the
mounting $5.3 trillion in Federal Debt and the widening trade deficit could soon result in
the crash of the U.S. dollar and disastrous ramifications for Americans.
10. True. 66% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the U.S. is
consumer spending, and the spending habits of the American people are greatly influenced
by the cost of money. Understanding an overview of how the Fed works and anticipating a
major shift in monetary policy can be extremely critical for a business person as well as
an investor. The bottom line question is: Whose interest does the Federal Reserve serve?
The bankers or the people? Now you know the answer to that question.
SOURCE: "Secrets of The Federal Reserve" by Eustace Mullins.
