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  • Re: Fractional reserve banking

    Here's a story I just wrote to help explain what the Fed's doing to wreck our economy. Please let me know if it helps. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The Three Little Pigs and the Federal Reserve Crisis In their later years, they bought a yacht and sailed the seven seas...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by smokedgoldeye on Tue, Feb 24 2009
  • Re: How much money does the federal government get from Fed?

    There are two answers to this question. 1) The Federal Reserve purchases U.S. government bonds and holds them. The total holdings currently are over $700 billion, so over the entire almost century of the Fed's existence, it has advanced $700 billion to the U.S. government. There is a complication...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by PhCrawford on Sat, Sep 13 2008
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