{"id":18185,"date":"2016-02-24T12:43:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T17:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18185"},"modified":"2016-02-24T12:43:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T17:43:42","slug":"donald-trump-is-right-here-are-100-reasons-why-we-need-to-audit-the-federal-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18185","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Is Right \u2013 Here Are 100 Reasons Why We Need To Audit The Federal Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-headline\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/donald-trump-is-right-here-are-100-reasons-why-we-need-to-audit-the-federal-reserve\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump Is Right \u2013 Here Are 100 Reasons Why We Need To Audit The Federal Reserve<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-byline\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/donald-trump-is-right-here-are-100-reasons-why-we-need-to-audit-the-federal-reserve\/donald-trump-photo-by-marc-nozell\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9879\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9879\" src=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Donald-Trump-Photo-by-Marc-Nozell-460x392.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump - Photo by Marc Nozell\" width=\"460\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a>When one of our major politicians gets something exactly right, we should applaud them for it.\u00a0 In this case, Donald Trump\u2019s call to audit the Federal Reserve is dead on correct.\u00a0 Most Americans don\u2019t realize this, but the Federal Reserve has far more power over the economy than anyone else does \u2013 including Barack Obama.\u00a0 Financial markets all over the planet gyrate wildly at the smallest comment from Fed officials, and virtually every boom and bust cycle over the past 100 years can be traced directly back to specific decisions made by the Federal Reserve.\u00a0 We get all excited about what various presidential candidates say that they \u201cwill do for the economy\u201d, but in the end it is the Fed that is holding all of the cards.\u00a0 The funny thing is that the Federal Reserve is not even part of the federal government.\u00a0 It is an independent private central bank that was designed by very powerful Wall Street interests a little over 100 years ago.\u00a0 It is at the heart of the debt-based financial system which is eating away at America like cancer, and it has no direct accountability to the American people whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>The Fed has been around for so long that most people assume that we need it.<\/p>\n<p>But the truth is that we don\u2019t actually need the Federal Reserve.\u00a0 In fact, the greatest period of economic growth in United States history happened\u00a0<a title=\"during the decades before the Federal Reserve was created\" href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/during-the-best-period-of-economic-growth-in-u-s-history-there-was-no-income-tax-and-no-federal-reserve\">during the decades before the Federal Reserve was created<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A little over 100 years ago, very powerful forces on Wall Street successfully pushed for the creation of an immensely powerful central bank, and since that time the value of the U.S. dollar has fallen by about 98 percent and our national debt has gotten\u00a0<a title=\"more than 5000 times larger\" href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/on-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-federal-reserve-here-are-100-reasons-to-shut-it-down-forever\">more than 5000 times larger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump Is Right \u2013 Here Are 100 Reasons Why We Need To Audit The Federal Reserve When one of our major politicians gets something exactly right, we should applaud them for it.\u00a0 In this case, Donald Trump\u2019s call to audit the Federal Reserve is dead on correct.\u00a0 Most Americans don\u2019t realize this, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4045,3416,12586,12587,2517,122,123,195,12588,3461,7844,12589,12590,5983,6061,12591,506,4901,7034,11960],"class_list":["post-18185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-audit","tag-audit-the-fed","tag-audit-the-federal-reserve","tag-boom-and-bust-cycle","tag-cancer","tag-central-bank","tag-central-banking","tag-debt","tag-debt-based-financial-system","tag-debts","tag-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump-and-audit-the-fed","tag-donald-trump-and-the-federal-reserve","tag-economiccollapseblog","tag-financial","tag-like-cancer","tag-markets","tag-michael-snyder","tag-the-economy","tag-the-fed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18186,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18185\/revisions\/18186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}