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NO WAY: Did Congress Just Do Something Right With the Fed? FORM Act Requires Transparency
21st Century Wire says…
If there’s one thing that the Federal Reserve of Counterfeiting hates – it’s allowing the American people to see what they’re doing.
They don’t like letting the plebs have a look in at how they create money for old rope (printing money out of thin air and then lending to the US gov’t at compound interest rates), and more importantly – who they are give our money away to under the table. It could be anyone, anywhere in the world. Lending money to their friends at 0%, or even less than zero percent interest? Congress are threatening to end the party.
However, people should beware of cornering a rabid animal. What will the banksters do if their supremacy is challenged by lowly serfs and vassals of the keep (wars, famine, civil unrest, economic collapse)?
‘MY LIFE, ALREADY!’ Federal Reserve Bank Chairmanwoman Janet Yellen is freaking out over House move towards greater transparency.
Janet Yellen’s astonishing letter to the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, is a sign that the central bank is panicking over the fact that Congress is unhappy with the job the central bank has been doing.
Mrs. Yellen’s letter, sent also to the minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, is a protest against a bill known as the Fed Oversight Reform and Modernization Act, which is nearing a vote in the House and would require the Fed to choose a rules for the formation of monetary policy and let the Congress and the public know what they are.
That has got to be one of the most gentle, democratic, transparent reforms in the history of democracy. It doesn’t require the Fed to stick to its monetary rules, just develop a set of guidelines and let the Congress know what they are. Yet Mrs. Yellen suggests that this mild measure would breach the Fed’s independence from the Congress that created it. Her letter is whiny, inaccurate, and threatening all at once, evincing an “it’s my ball and you can’t play with it” attitude.
One would think the FORM Act would be a lead pipe cinch in a democracy. Mrs. Yellen’s letter is particularly shocking given that it is precisely to the Congress that the Constitution grants the monetary powers. These include the power to borrow money on the credit of the United States, to coin money and regulate the value thereof, to provide for punishment of counterfeiting, to regulate commerce, and to fix the standard of weights and measures.
Congress could, if it wanted, dismantle the Federal Reserve entirely. It could refuse to confirm its governors. It could require that dollars be redeemed in gold. If the Fed doesn’t want to establish a voluntary, non-binding monetary guideline, the Congress could turn around and legislate a binding one. The Congress hasn’t — at least not yet — done any of those things. It is merely considering a bill requiring the Fed to establish its own rules and let the rest of us know what it is doing.
This, incidentally, has already passed the House Financial Services Committee, albeit on a party line vote, the way, say, Obamacare passed the Congress. Support for more oversight of the Fed, though, is far more bipartisan than Obamacare and the reforms are relatively mild. Audit the Fed, which would give Congress an on-going look at what the Fed is doing on monetary policy and is now a part of this bill, passed the House in September 2014 by a vote of 333 to 92, with something like 109 Democrats voting for the measure.
Why is Congress itching for more oversight of the Fed? The reason is that the Fed was culpable in the crisis of 2008…
Continue this story at New York Sun
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Source: http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/11/20/no-way-did-congress-just-do-something-right-with-the-fed-form-act-requires-transparency/
