[samstave]

Is the Fed not a monopoly on your FIAT American Note? Just because they have "12 independent 'Member Banks'?

You're understanding of a monopoly is outdated. Plus, you're likely to knee-jerk with a "Thats not the defenition of a monopoly!"

Cool get all semantic on the third grade defenition of an insanely nuanced issue.

Monopoly in the dictionary sense is the same as a fucking sound-bite from the news on a highly complex nuanced global issue that takes one to have decades, and in some cases centuries, of input factors to understand the nuance.

[whimsicalism]

Yes, the Fed is a sanctioned quasi-governmental monopoly, just like the police or the taxman is.

You'll note that "the Fed" was not in your original list. Also, definition is spelled definition.

[pc86]

Good luck arguing with someone who says "FIAT" as if that's the ace up their sleeve.

[samstave]

An ace up my sleeve? Definitions mean something, until they don't.

" What Is Fiat Money?

Fiat money is a government-issued currency that is not backed by a physical commodity, such as gold or silver, but rather by the government that issued it."

The Federal Reserve derives its authority from the Congress, which created the System in 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act. This central banking "system" has three important features: (1) a central governing board—the Federal Reserve Board of Governors; (2) a decentralized operating structure of 12 Federal Reserve Banks; and (3) a blend of public and private characteristics.

>>https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm

>>Some observers mistakenly consider the Federal Reserve to be a private entity because the Reserve Banks are organized similarly to private corporations. For instance, each of the 12 Reserve Banks operates within its own particular geographic area, or District, of the United States, and each is separately incorporated and has its own board of directors. Commercial banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System hold stock in their District's Reserve Bank. However, owning Reserve Bank stock is quite different from owning stock in a private company. The Reserve Banks are not operated for profit, and ownership of a certain amount of stock is, by law, a condition of membership in the System. In fact, the Reserve Banks are required by law to transfer net earnings to the U.S. Treasury, after providing for all necessary expenses of the Reserve Banks, legally required dividend payments, and maintaining a limited balance in a surplus fund.*

(Tell me you can read this in plain english and not see the amount of Spell-Binding) <-- Do you have any idea the power of the written language?

And the Government that issues it is backed only on the faith in the government, of the constituents that make up said government.

And the fact that the government is largely seen to be an oligarchy.

So the US dollar is a fiat currency, backed by the US government, which is backed by the people that live under said government...

And the people who back the government are?

THOSE IN GOVERNMENT.

Everyone else is.... starts with a P.

[jjtheblunt]

> starts with a P.

plebians!

[samstave]

>>Fed is a sanctioned quasi-governmental monopoly

Im sorry, where do I UNVOTE for 'sanctioned quasi-governmental EVERYTHING' and still live it what is called a 'democracy' OR -- IMAGINE THIS even a "representative republic*!"?

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I forgot to mention, only a fucking moron replies on a tpyo!

You fail your username:

https://i.imgur.com/BoaqyUw.png