hunter3 ago

anyone else get this paragragh twice?

But we shouldn’t be surprised by this, because this is precisely what the Federal Reserve system was designed to do to us.

hunter3 ago

where are these "debt free us notes"? are the backed by silver. or what does that mean?

bikergang_accountant ago

It would still have to be paper money. If you close the federal reserve and want to switch to money with intrinsic value, the government will have to purchase a lot of real goods in order to replace the current circulation. That would be a lot of government spending.

It would be literally easier for the government to switch to bitcoin than to pull that off.

But still end the fed.

AdamJames ago

I fear that people are expecting a bit too much from Trump...

Pawn ago

he's already starting to flip on some of his positions. Becoming more moderate. Even told the people attacking minorities to stop it.

ScottRockview ago

He should stay away from cars that aren't completely covered and bulletproof, and definitely stay the fuck away from the Texas book depository, we all know what happened to the last guy who tried to do this.

gazillions ago

Nah, if anything happens to him we'd have to assume it was these people then.. whether it was or not. They really should be afraid of Trump supporters.

Janet L. Yellen, Chair Stanley Fischer, Vice Chairman Daniel K. Tarullo Jerome H. Powell Lael Brainard

pitenius ago

Which was explicitly covered in TFA.

TheRogueScholar ago

Well, if he wasn't a target for assassination before, he'd certainly become one afterwards. That said, I too dream of the day when this is not such a life threatening proposition.