Federal Reserve

Financial Market Manipulation Is the New Trend: Can It Continue?

A dangerous new trend is the successful manipulation of the financial markets by the Federal Reserve, other central banks, private banks, and the US Treasury. The Federal Reserve reduced real interest rates on US government debt obligations first to zero and then pushed real interest rates into negative territory. Today the government charges you for the privilege of purchasing its bonds.

Interview 965 – James Corbett on The Fed, The Petrodollar and The War State

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2014-11-05%20Caravan%20To%20Midnight.m…"][/audio]James Corbett joins John B. Wells on Caravan To Midnight to discuss his documentary, "Century of Enslavement: The History of the Federal Reserve." Topics discussed include the history and function of the Federal Reserve, how the Fed can be supplanted, and how the current petrodollar paradigm is maintained at the barrel of a gun.

Why Do Banks Want Our Deposits? Hint: It’s Not to Make Loans

Many authorities have said it: banks do not lend their deposits. They create the money they lend on their books.
Robert B. Anderson, Treasury Secretary under Eisenhower, said it in 1959:

When a bank makes a loan, it simply adds to the borrower’s deposit account in the bank by the amount of the loan. The money is not taken from anyone else’s deposits; it was not previously paid in to the bank by anyone. It’s new money, created by the bank for the use of the borrower.

Interview 959 – James Corbett Breaks The Set on The Federal Reserve

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2014-10-23%20Breaking%20The%20Set.mp3"][/audio]James Corbett appears on “Breaking The Set” with Abby Martin to discuss his documentary film, “Century of Enslavement: The History of the Federal Reserve.” James and Abby discuss what the Federal Reserve is, why it must be opposed, and how best to end the current system of debt servitude.

Interview 951 – Inverting the Federal Reserve Pyramid

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2014-10-09%20WAC%20Fresno.mp3"][/audio]We all know the bad news: the Federal Reserve Act was passed by Congress in 1913 as the capstone to the banksters' financial pyramid. Now fewer and fewer cronies own a greater and greater share of the economic pie. But here's the good news: we are the ones holding that pyramid up, and we can start removing ourselves from the base of this structure.

Regulatory Capture-- A Story Of Democratic Dysfunction In The Face Of Increasingly Unfettered Capitalism

This is far more true today than it was in 1902Last week's most important story wasn't that mini-states Belgium, the U.K. and Denmark are joining in the bombing of airforceless ISIL-- or even the birth of Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky. The biggest news was broken by Ira Glass on NPR's This American Life.