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Who Owns The Federal Reserve?

Who Owns The Federal Reserve? | MN News Hound | Scoop.it

If the Fed were actually a federal agency, the government could issue U.S. legal tender directly, avoiding an unnecessary interest-bearing debt to private middlemen who create the money out of thin air themselves. Among other benefits to the taxpayers. a truly “federal” Federal Reserve could lend the full faith and credit of the United States to state and local governments interest-free, cutting the cost of infrastructure in half, restoring the thriving local economies of earlier decades.

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MPAA Head Chris Dodd on Online Censorship Bill: China's the Model | The Weekly Standard

MPAA Head Chris Dodd on Online Censorship Bill: China's the Model | The Weekly Standard | MN News Hound | Scoop.it

If you're wondering why lawyers and Hollywood folks would get behind legislation to censor the Internet, you only need to listen to former Senator Chris Dodd, now the head of the MPAA, who last week explained to Variety that the lobby is only asking for the same kind of power to censor the Internet as the government has in the People's Republic of China:

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