What is the real reason behind Fed Secrecy?
*Texas Straight Talk, by Congressman Ron Paul, September 28, 2009:
“The fact is that the Fed comes to Congress and talks about only
what it wants to talk about, and the GAO audits only what the current
laws allow to be audited. The really important things however,
are off limits. There are no convincing arguments that it is in
the best interests of the American people for anything the Fed does to
be off limits.
It has been argued that full disclosure of details of funding
facilities like TALF and PDCF that enabled massive bailouts of Wall
Street would damage the financial position of those firms and
destabilize the economy. In other words, if the American people
knew how rotten the books were at those banks and how terribly they
messed up, they would never willingly invest in them, and they would
fail. Failure is not an option for friends of the Fed.
Therefore, the funds must be stolen from the people in the dark of
night. This is not how a free country works. This is not
how free markets work. That is crony corporatism and instead of
being a force for economic stabilization, it totally undermines it.
If the Fed gave its actual arguments against a full audit, they would
not have mentioned anything about political independence or economic
stability. Instead they would admit they don't want to be audited
because they enjoy their current situation too much. Under the
guise of currency control, they are able to help out powerful allies on
Wall Street, in exchange for lucrative jobs or who-knows-what favors
later on. An audit would expose the Fed as a massive fraud
perpetrated on this country, enriching a privileged few bankers at the
top of our economic food chain, and leaving the rest of us with
massively devalued dollars which we are forced to use by law. An
audit would make people realize that, while Bernie Madoff defrauded a
lot of investors for a lot of money, the Fed has defrauded every one of
us by destroying the value of our money.”
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