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Funny. The USA seems to have the complete opposite view to yours! :D

The Federal Reserve is just about as close to a private company as any, running your entire economy. Certainly it's a for profit venture. But then that's profits funneled away from public coffers, and not to it.

Sure, the Fed has a pretty clear mandate from the Congress, deputizing them into a certain public role, but other than that, they receive little to no ‘advice’ on how to do things, and stand free to make private profit for a small cartel of privately owned banks.

The reason for this non-public setup is so that Congress won't simply print more money at will, which would be far worse.



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You do realize that FED transfers it's profits to US Treasury to the tune of 100 billion dollars per year?

Correct, the fed funnels money away from savings accounts to the Treasury, exporters, and banks.

But unlike just about all public agencies, stock holders get to keep a fair amount too. Not to mention that a great deal of tax money goes towards servicing interest on loans. On top of that; well, let's not mince words: "Quantitative easing" is essentially theft.

I agree with you, just wanted to let you know that "running your entire economy" is not accurate as I don't live there. We would all be a little better by not assuming things about people :)

The context is that the Fed serves the USA, and I don't live "there" either. So "your (...) economy" is of course referring to the American economy.

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