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1 posted on 07/27/2009 6:32:08 PM PDT by expat_panama
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There is no such thing as “excessive” transparency. The Fed is a monstrosity that should be 1) audited and 2) disbanded.


2 posted on 07/27/2009 6:33:45 PM PDT by Tax Government (Vote all the clowns out of office...especially Bozo.)
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To: expat_panama

Finally, a voice of sanity in this mess. Rep. Paul may have the purest of motives, but imagine Rep. Frank holding the hearings.


4 posted on 07/27/2009 6:36:59 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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The insinuation that Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is against openness is like saying Popeye is against spinach.

Riiiight...then why the heck did he pen an editorial claiming the exact opposite??!?



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5 posted on 07/27/2009 6:39:21 PM PDT by bamahead (Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
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Long before he came to Washington, Mr. Bernanke argued for greater Fed transparency in the belief that it would help stabilize markets and that the public has a right to know. At the Fed, he

At the Fed, he stopped publishing M3. The only logical reasons for doing that are all sinister.

9 posted on 07/27/2009 6:41:15 PM PDT by Technogeeb (The only good Russian is a dead Russian. Rest in Peace, Solzhenitsyn.)
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To: expat_panama

A compromise??? Who in the hell sits around dreaming all this up? No tear it out by the roots


10 posted on 07/27/2009 6:41:20 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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Did you guys read the comments? :D

“yellow journalism” “sellout”


16 posted on 07/27/2009 6:59:36 PM PDT by camp_steveo
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52 posted on 07/27/2009 10:16:33 PM PDT by djsherin (Government is essentially the negation of liberty.)
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the fed is only “missing” 9 trillion dollars .. why bother looking? Obama can spend that in a month without ever having any one read the bills!


56 posted on 07/28/2009 1:15:54 AM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To your knowledge, has the missing 9 trillion dollars in off balance sheet transactions ever been accounted for?


63 posted on 07/28/2009 6:14:16 AM PDT by takenoprisoner (Freedom Watch: fight for freedom with everything you have.)
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