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> "War Is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength."
>
> We live in an age where the word has become an instrument of liars,
where
> though constant repetition, lies are eventually perceived as truth
by the
> general public.
> The powers that be may play around with words as much as they like, but
> the fact remains that the Fed Reserve is neither owned nor
controlled by
> the publicly-elected US government.
There's only one side of this discussion engaging in Newspeak, Jose,
and that is unfortunately yours.
We have already established that the government appoints Fed board
officers which take strategic decisions, and that the economic net
profits of the Fed system belongs to the US Treasury.
If these two elements don't represent the defining characteristics of
corporate ownership and control, I don't know what does.
Please otherwise tell me precisely what specific, substantive
benefits of share ownership, according to customary use of language,
you believe accrues to Feb member banks' that justify your repeated
assertions of private ownership?
--- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jose Silva" <josesilva22@xxx>
wrote:
>
> Straight from the horse's mouth:
> ( http://www.federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/faq/faqfrs.htm#5 )
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Who owns the Federal Reserve?
>
> The Federal Reserve System is not "owned" by anyone and is not a
private,
> profit-making institution. Instead, it is an independent entity
within the
> government, having both public purposes and private aspects.
>
> As the nation's central bank, the Federal Reserve derives its authority
> from the U.S. Congress. It is considered an independent central bank
> because its decisions do not have to be ratified by the President or
> anyone else in the executive or legislative branch of government, it
does
> not receive funding appropriated by Congress, and the terms of the
members
> of the Board of Governors span multiple presidential and congressional
> terms. However, the Federal Reserve is subject to oversight by
Congress,
> which periodically reviews its activities and can alter its
> responsibilities by statute. Also, the Federal Reserve must work within
> the framework of the overall objectives of economic and financial
policy
> established by the government. Therefore, the Federal Reserve can be
more
> accurately described as "independent within the government."
>
> The twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks, which were established by
> Congress as the operating arms of the nation's central banking
system, are
> organized much like private corporations--possibly leading to some
> confusion about "ownership." For example, the Reserve Banks issue
shares
> of stock to member banks. However, owning Reserve Bank stock is quite
> different from owning stock in a private company. The Reserve Banks are
> not operated for profit, and ownership of a certain amount of stock
is, by
> law, a condition of membership in the System. The stock may not be
sold,
> traded, or pledged as security for a loan; dividends are, by law, 6
> percent per year.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Let's see:
>
>
> "...having both public purposes and private aspects."
>
> A major utility company, say one that supplies energy to a whole region
> (Enron Corporation comes to mind), also has "both public purposes and
> private aspects" - it provides a public service, and is privately owned
> and controlled, and the two purposes may not necessarily be mutually
> agreeable.
>
>
> "The twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks, which were established by
> Congress as the operating arms of the nation's central banking
system, are
> organized much like private corporations"
>
> The following 12 entities are also organized much like private
> corporations:
>
> American Express Co.
> Boeing Co.
> Citigroup Inc.
> Coca-Cola Co.
> Exxon Mobil Corp.
> General Electric Co.
> General Motors Corp.
> IBM Corp.
> McDonald's Corp.
> Merck & Co. Inc.
> Microsoft Corp.
> Walt Disney Co.
>
> Now, imagine these 12 corporations running the Federal Reserve Bank
> appearing on Fox News tonight to state that, although they act
completely
> independent of the US government and are controlled by privately-owned
> entities, the Fed Res is neither publicly nor privately owned.
> Hogwash.
>
>
> "War Is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength."
>
> We live in an age where the word has become an instrument of liars,
where
> though constant repetition, lies are eventually perceived as truth
by the
> general public.
> The powers that be may play around with words as much as they like, but
> the fact remains that the Fed Reserve is neither owned nor
controlled by
> the publicly-elected US government.
>
>
> jose '-)
> http://www.metastocktools.com/#USindex
>
>
>
>
> --- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Lionel Issen" <lissen@> wrote:
> >
> > Pastor:
> >
> > Thanks for confirming my suspicions that the USD printing press is not
> > privately owned. It doesn't really matter much since so much of our
> > "money" is electronically generated by the more irrational elements of
> > the private sector.
> >
> > About 10 +/- years ago there were a spate of postings on the internet
> > claiming that the IRS was a private company incorporated outside
of the
> > US, and thus we didn't have to pay any income taxes. These stopped
after
> > the IRS publicized several Supreme court rulings enabling the IRS to
> > forcibly collect income taxes, and I think the Feds went after these
> > fanatics and discouraged them from further spreading these misleading
> > falsehoods (aka lies).
> >
> > Lionel
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > On Behalf Of pastor_barr
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 1:01 PM
> > To: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [EquisMetaStock Group] Re: Day of Week Function?
performance for
> > the specified day of the week.
> >
> >
> > "The USD printing press is privately owned."
> >
> >> It's amazing the number of sites that try and point the above
fact, and
> >> disappear in the process...
> >
> > Hmmm.
> >
> > To use an - in this case unrepresentative - corporate analogy the
> > executive branch appoints the Fed board that takes all strategic
> > decisions.
> >
> > The US treasury owns the net profits of the Fed system and can at its
> > sole discretion transfer said profits to the treasury or leave them in
> > reserves.
> >
> > The "dividend" mentioned in the Fed's accounts are at a 5% fixed rate
> > on capital committed in cash to the reserve system (like a preferred
> > dividend), that for the vast majority of history has not come close to
> > covering member bank's cost of capital. In accounting this equates to
> > interest expense, not an economic share of profits generated as
> > accrues to shareholders in the ordinary sense; this is a distinction
> > not lost on the Fed's auditors in their statement of departures from
> > accounting convention, last time I checked.
> >
> > Further, member banks can not sell any shares if they wish to retain a
> > banking license. On the contrary, member banks are obliged to
> > unconditionally subscribe for new issues as determined at the sole
> > discretion of the politically appointed board of governors from time
> > to time.
> >
> > So, while the Fed member banks are for archaic reasons known as
> > "shareholders" they are not private owners of the Fed in any
> > meaningful sense.
> >
> > Maybe that is why the sites you refer to disappeared; perhaps people
> > realized they were peddling misrepresentations so egregious that they
> > can only be accurately described as a pack of lies.
> >
> > Nice indicator though ;-)
>
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