DudleySmith
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The owners of the Federal Reserve which is a privately owned bank that orders the U.S. treasury to print money, were stalwarts at the time the Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913 saying there would be no more recessions and depressions as fiat currencies were so much better than gold and silver backed ones which are called barbarous relics. The Federal Reserve caused the Great Depression by tightening the money supply like a vice in 1929 after greasing the wheels for a decade and causing the Roaring Twenties. Today we have safeguards and levels of social programs that buffer any decline up to now.
Actually it was the dismantling of the New Deal legislation that allowed banks to grow huge and let them gamble on stocks and bonds and allowed monopolies to develop and conglomerates to control markets. And yes, Democrats were in the middle of it all along with their Republican partners. The 'Too Big To fail' mentality began in the late 1960's, not 2008. The Watergate Babies were as big a fan of giant corporations swallowing up the economy as any Reaganite dumbass was. And while the Right is sniveling about Barnery FRank they need to include Phil Gramm and Newt Gingrich along with a whole host of Republicans on that list.
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