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Our country is in debt to the tune of $27.5 trillion.
The economy is once again rolling over as states begin imposing economic lockdowns.
And according to Yelp, some 800 small businesses are closing
per day.
In light of this economic carnage, you would think the U.S. central bank, the Federal Reserve, would be introducing policies to help small businesses… or push back against lockdowns.
You’d be wrong.
CLIMATE CHANGE.
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What we’re really working on is: how do we incorporate climate change risk into all that we do,” Powell said during an online panel Thursday hosted by the European Central Bank.
Today in 1913, The Federal Reserve Act was signed into law by Woodrow Wilson. One of the most deplorable laws in the history of the United States, the act allowed for a cartel of banks to establish a legalized monopoly on the printing of currency, assured the continual artificial manipulation of interest rates, and perpetuated the most inequitable and callous of all taxes – inflation.
Many of the founders were adamantly opposed to central banks for these precise reasons. Thomas Jefferson wrote that he considered such banks to be more dangerous than standing armies, and wrote that paper was the “ghost of money, and not money itself.” James Madison was equally disturbed by the emissions of paper money under the Articles of Confederation, remarking that “restraints against paper emissions and violations of contracts are not sufficient.” Under that system, the disastrous paper money experiment of the Continentals, along with inflationary state bills of credit, had produced an
Wednesday, 23 Dec 2020
At issue is Section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act, which grants the central bank broad powers to make loans and otherwise keep money flowing in “unusual and exigent circumstances.” Added to the central bank’s arsenal amid the Great Depression, the authority has proved invaluable in recent decades.
THE pandemic relief deal that Congress struck this week is long overdue. Unfortunately, the package includes a provision that threatens to make this and future crises worse – by limiting the emergency powers of the Federal Reserve.
At issue is Section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act, which grants the central bank broad powers to make loans and otherwise keep money flowing in “unusual and exigent circumstances.” Added to the central bank’s arsenal amid the Great Depression, the authority has proved invaluable in recent decades.
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Nine months after the passage of the CARES Act, Congress has finally gotten it together and churned out a new economic stimulus. This bill does provide
some of the things Democrats wanted: one-time $600 payments to most people, an extension on unemployment insurance and the eviction moratorium, and some funding for public transportation. The bill even allows U.S. citizens who are married to undocumented immigrations to get in on direct payments, something the CARES Act didn’t allow. What
isn’t in the bill are some other high-priority items for both parties; all competing interests got a little something, and everybody lost a little something too. But it’s amazing a deal happened at all. Jordan Weissmann, Slate’s senior business and economics correspondent, thinks that without the runoff elections that are about to take place in Georgia, a compromise wouldn’t have been possible. Mitch McConnell was even quoted telling his caucus that the reason t