The Federal Reserve is the greatest, most-lucrative, longest-lasting financial swindle the world has ever seen.***   And fiat money (make-believe money) is at the core if this legalize crime!   Here's the essence of the scam:   The Federal Reserve Banks loan money to the government and to it's member banks.   The government and the member banks pays interest on the loan.   On the surface, that sounds simple and straight forward, but the swindle is in where the loan money actually comes from.  

Plucked From Air:   Where did these twelve privately owned banks get the trillions of dollars they have loaned to the banks and to the U. S. government -- the trillions of dollars on which you and I are paying interest to the banks in the form of gold or other tangible assets?   

The answer is:   P.F.A.  As some would say, plucked from air.   They didn't and they don't have trillions of dollars to loan.   They are charging you and me real interest on make-believe money.   Each year, billions of your real, hard-earned, tax dollars are being funneled into the coffers of these private banks ( in the form of gold or by the seizure of other tangible assets such as your home) to pay interest on, (or for default on the repayment of) Alice in Wonderland, Fairytale Loans.  

The money you are paying interest on is non-existent!   It's fake!   Its a fraud!  The Federal Reserve is sleazy, flim-flam scam disguised as a service to the people.   It's Bernie Madoff pyramid scheme times a million.   Using a medical metaphor, our monetary system has sick with a deadly cancer.   That cancer is the Federal Reserve.  

Private, For-profit Corporation:   The Federal Reserve is not a government agency.   It is a private corporation owned by a group of foreign and domestic banks and run for profit.   This cartel of disguised criminals lend non-existent money and charges interest on the borrowed money.   They demand collateral (title to real wealth -- you car, your house, your factory, your business, or other tangible property) to insure that the lender repays the loan.  If the lender defaults (fails to repay the loan plus interest) the banks take physical possession of and legal title to the property held as collateral.  

Theft by Indirection:   The moneys they lend are fake receipts for goods and services.   Their paper money or bookkeeping ledger entries get their value form the money already in circulation.   This is a simple, straight-forward expression of the basic law of "Supply and Demand" -- supply/price/demand  --  To change one factor changes a second factor if the third factor remains the same.   In this case, increasing the supply dollars with the demand unchanged reduces the value of the dollar.   Thus, everything you buy costs more (requires more dollars to buy) because the value of the money decreases.  

Spending Counterfeit Money:  They also use their fake receipts to directly enter the business world and buy real goods and services, thus further reducing the supply of goods and services for the rest of us.   When you look at this using the Law of Supply and Demand, you'll see that, as demand, raises (with the supply staying the same) the price you and I pay for our goods and services goes up.   They pay for wars and the tools of war this way.   Unlike the rest of us, they don't have to earn money to do buy things.  They simply exchange fake receipts for whatever they want.  

Imagine having a printing press in the back of your you garage, and any time you wanted something, you went into the garage, printed some fake/counterfeit money and then went out and bought whatever you wanted.   If you want a fancy car, or an expensive vacation at a first class resort, or a high class hooker, you simply print some money, use the fake money to pay for your car, your vacation or your sexual escapade.   Now imagine the same process on a multi-billion-dollar scale.   Welcome to  the Federal Reserve Corporation.  

You're Being Milked for Money:   This scam is not limited to loans to the government.   They do the same thing to anybody and everybody through loans to businesses and individuals, including your credit card loans.   The money you are sweating your butt off to earn is going to pay interest and fees for the use of non-existent, make believe, fairy tale money.   

Here's the Real Kicker:   Remember the law of supply and demand I just mentioned.   With regard to money, the Federal Reserve controls the supply.   This gives them the power to also control price and manipulate the entire national economy.   They manipulate the economy by increasing the money supply with more fake receipts which they hand out in the form of loans.   This inspires many people to borrow and spend money that they don't have.   When the spending reach a high, the financial wheelers and dealers manipulate the system to cause an economic downturn (a Recession).   When that happens, millions of borrowers are left with no way to repay the loans, and the super-wealthy step in and seize the assets.  

This Scam in Action:   You can see this scam in action in the 2009 sub-prime derivative and banking fiasco and the resultant home for closure crisis.   Millions of people now (2009-2010) owe more on their home loans than their property is worth in the present market.   At the same time, the economy has been devastated, and millions have lost their jobs.   This combination of factors causes millions of home owners to simply turn their property over to the bankers or be forced into foreclosure where the bankers take the property by legalized force of eviction.    

On an international scale, by way of the International Monetary Fund, they do the same thing to entire nations on a multi-billion dollar scale.   When the money-borrowing nation's cycle reaches the loan default stage, they tell the defaulting nation, "You must take the money you were using for public services and use that money to repay your loan.   Also, you must sell you assets to repay the loan."  

And guess who buys those assets at fire-sale prices?   They money lenders simply create more fake money, and using a dummy corporation, they buy the assets.   The screwed borrower then gives the fires sale money back to the bankers as repayment on the loan.   The bankers end up with everything of value, and the borrowers are left with nothing but anger, poverty, confusion, and disbelief.   This is Exploitation Economics in action.   

Wake Up and Look Around You:   In case you hadn't noticed it yet, the same scam is being used here in the united states to take over our nation's federal, state, and corporate assets.  

Governments are being pressured into selling public land to the major corporations to pay their debts.   And since the corporations own the votes of the politicians, guess who wins and guess who loses?  

Have you noticed how many of the smaller banks have been gobbled up by the largest banks?   Guess who owns those large banks?

Almost 100 Years of Legalized Theft:   This hundred-year-old con game is still going on right now, today, even though the facts about this scam are easily accessible, public knowledge.   Since the passage of this law, in the middle of the night on December 22, 1913, literally trillions (that's thousand of billions) of dollars have been transferred from the public treasury to private banking interests.   (The law requires that the interest paid to the twelve, privately-owned banks that make up the Federal Reserve be paid in gold.)   And in addition to the government loan payments, trillions of dollars more in private money and private wealth are now under the legal ownership of the super wealthy bankers and their cronies.  

Guess why there is a conspicuous absence of money in the economy today (March 2011)?   Because trillions of dollars are presently being squirreled away by the super-wealthy waiting for the soon-to-be-happening, multi-billions-dollar fire sales of the nation's public property and the nation's major, corporate, manufacturing infrastructures.  

The Way Out of this Disaster:   This swindle could never be pulled off in a monetary system based on real money-- (a monetary system based on money with intrinsic value such as gold and silver).   To steal your money was the major reason the super-wealthy manipulators conned, bribed or threatened prior-generation-federal-politicians into ignoring the American constitution (Article 1 sections 8-10) and eliminating the gold standard as a basis for monetary value.   And rumor has it that President John Kennedy was murdered because he was about to put an end to this "fleecing of the lambs."  

The United States Constitution defines money as gold and silver.   With real money, one must first have money in order to loan it.   This is not required when loaning fiat (fairytale) money.   Banks loan non-existing money by simply making an entry in their records.  They then charge the borrowers interest for its use.  

Imagine, for a moment, a restaurant doing business this way.   You enter the restaurant, sit down, look at the menu and order dinner.   Instead of a real dinner, the waiter brings you a second copy of the menu and a bill for the price of a real meal.   Do you eat the menu, pay the bill and leave, or do you ask, "Where's dinner?"   Perhaps it's time to call a halt to the Federal Reserve scam.