The United States does not control its own destiny. Rather it is controlled by an international financial elite, of which the American branch works out of big New York banks like J.P. Morgan Chase, Wall Street investment firms such as Goldman Sachs, and the Federal Reserve System. They in turn control the White House, Congress, the military, the mass media, the intelligence agencies, both political parties, the universities, etc. No one can rise to the top in any of these institutions without the elite’s stamp of approval.
This elite has been around since the nation began, becoming increasingly dominant as the 19th century progressed. A key date was passage of the National Banking Act of 1863, when the system was put into place whereby federal government debt was used to collateralize bank lending. Since then we’ve paid the freight through our taxes for bank control of the economy. The final nails in the coffin came with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
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The Obama administration has announced the formation of a new task force to target financial fraud. It replaces an earlier corporate fraud unit created in 2002 by the Bush administration following a series of corporate scandals. Attorney General Eric Holder says the new group will have a broader scope, and be able to provide better coordination among federal and state agencies that investigate and prosecute financial crimes.
Small-business owners haven’t seen much improvement in the U.S.