The history of the Federal Reserve system
For better or mostly worse, the Federal Reserve has been governing the monetary system of the United States since 1914. The visual history below maps the rise of the Fed from its origins as a...
View ArticleInsider trading: Massive orders milliseconds after Fed decision not to taper
Last Wednesday, the Fed announced that it would not be tapering its bond buying program. This news was released at precisely 2 pm in Washington “as measured by the national atomic clock.” It takes 7...
View ArticleFederal Reserve: $75 billion a month in bond purchases
The Federal Reserve will decrease the amount of bonds purchased by the United States central bank, Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday, by roughly $10 billion per month. Bernanke was about to make his...
View ArticleFederal Reserve: 100 years of US dollar manipulation
Monday 23 December marks the 100th Anniversary of the creation of the Federal Reserve System – the Central Bank of the United States of America. The mainstream media are keeping remarkably quiet about...
View ArticleFederal Reserve is unable to raise interest rates
From Filip Karinja, for Birch Gold Group The Federal Reserve has announced that it will keep rates as is for the time being, at 0.5%. Previously, the Fed said it would carry out four increases in 2016,...
View ArticleFederal Reserve is leading economy into the next recession
From Filip Karinja, for Birch Gold Group This week, former Ronald Reagan administration aide and 20-year Wall Street veteran David Stockman has come out and fired shots at the Federal Reserve. The...
View ArticleFed president: US banks have “half the equity they need”
In a scathing editorial published in the Wall Street Journal today, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Neel Kashkari, blasted US banks, saying that they still lacked sufficient...
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