Seðlabanki að glata trúverðugleika sínum? hvaða trúverðugleika?

Seðlabankar eru skrímsli. Ég er ekki sérfróður um Seðlabanka Íslands en sett stórt spurningamerki við að stýrivextir hafi þurft að vera 15% hér á meðan þeir eru í hæsta lagi í kringum 5% í nágrannalöndum okkar og innan við 3% í bandaríkjunum ef ég man rétt.

Seðlabanki Bandaríkjanna er merkilegt fyrirbæri, hér ber að lesa ræðu sem Louis McFadden hélt á bandaríska þinginu 10.júní 1932:

The Federal Reserve-A Corrupt Institution

"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, hereinafter called the Fed. The Fed has cheated the Government of these United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the Nation's debt. The depredations and iniquities of the Fed has cost enough money to pay the National debt several times over.

"This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of these United States, has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through the defects of the law under which it operates, through the maladministration of that law by the Fed and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.

"Some people who think that the Federal Reserve Banks United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lender. In that dark crew of financial pirates there are those who would cut a man's throat to get a dollar out of his pocket; there are those who send money into states to buy votes to control our legislatures; there are those who maintain International propaganda for the purpose of deceiving us into granting of new concessions which will permit them to cover up their past misdeeds and set again in motion their gigantic train of crime.

"These twelve private credit monopolies were deceitfully and disloyally foisted upon this Country by the bankers who came here from Europe and repaid us our hospitality by undermining our American institutions. Those bankers took money out of this Country to finance Japan in a war against Russia. They created a reign of terror in Russia with our money in order to help that war along. They instigated the separate peace between Germany and Russia, and thus drove a wedge between the allies in World War. They financed Trotsky's passage from New York to Russia so that he might assist in the destruction of the Russian Empire. They fomented and instigated the Russian Revolution, and placed a large fund of American dollars at Trotsky's disposal in one of their branch banks in Sweden so that through him Russian homes might be thoroughly broken up and Russian children flung far and wide from their natural protectors. They have since begun breaking up of American homes and the dispersal of American children. "Mr. Chairman, there should be no partisanship in matters concerning banking and currency affairs in this Country, and I do not speak with any.

"In 1912 the National Monetary Association, under the chairmanship of the late Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, made a report and presented a vicious bill called the National Reserve Association bill. This bill is usually spoken of as the Aldrich bill. Senator Aldrich did not write the Aldrich bill. He was the tool, if not the accomplice, of the European bankers who for nearly twenty years had been scheming to set up a central bank in this Country and who in 1912 has spent and were continuing to spend vast sums of money to accomplish their purpose.

"We were opposed to the Aldrich plan for a central bank. The men who rule the Democratic Party then promised the people that if they were returned to power there would be no central bank established here while they held the reigns of government. Thirteen months later that promise was broken, and the Wilson administration, under the tutelage of those sinister Wall Street figures who stood behind Colonel House, established here in our free Country the worm-eaten monarchical institution of the "King's Bank" to control us from the top downward, and from the cradle to the grave.

"The Federal Reserve Bank destroyed our old and characteristic way of doing business. It discriminated against our 1-name commercial paper, the finest in the world, and it set up the antiquated 2-name paper, which is the present curse of this Country and which wrecked every country which has ever given it scope; it fastened down upon the Country the very tyranny from which the framers of the Constitution sough to save us."

Þessi maður var auðvitað drepinn stuttu síðar.

og staðan hefur bara versnað síðan, fólkið sem hann var að tala um er enn við völd, sömu fyrirtæki og börn þeirra sem voru að verki þarna.

Hér er síðan góð heimildamynd sem ég hef verið að horfa á svona einn kafla í einu. Hún er ekki í spes gæðum en ótrúlega fróðleg og ég mæli með henni fyrir alla sem eru forvitnir um það hvernig heimurinn varð svona "fokkdopp".

Annar kaflinn er hér en ég treysti á að þið séuð fær um að finna hina sjálf (fyrsti kaflinn er óþarfi ef þið vitið að opinbera sagan um 11.september er bull, auk þess finn ég hann ekki)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed_EB68aprA

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