Posted on 05/20/2011 11:55:27 AM PDT by Nachum
The Federal Reserve system has lots of ways to communicate with the public, but that wasnt always the case.
The Fed has Web sites for the board in Washington and all the regional banks with access to speeches by officials, research and even blogs, theres TV coverage of the chairmans testimony and now press conference, theres a plethora of other sites (including this one, of course) that cover the central bank closely, not to mention the banks paper publications and local outreach efforts.
But there werent always so many options available. The New York Feds Liberty Street Economics blog posts five posters from the 1920s that aimed to get the Feds message out to the public. (See all the posters.) The posters, archived by the San Francisco Fed, aimed to get the message out that Federal Reserve system was keeping the world safe for commerce.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...
The Fed is NOT your friend.
Audit the federal reserve..
No banker is your friend.
It’s not federal and there is no reserve
1920s. Guess the propaganda began to ring hollow some time in the 1930s.
Anyone know if that’s any particular dam in the poster?
Its not federal and there is no reserve <<-——
BINGO!...Time to widen the memory hole with some Federal Stimulus Funds!
Herman Cain, former Chairman and Member of the Board of Directors for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, flippantly denies the need to Audit the Federal Reserve while hosting the Neil Boortz Show on 12/29/2010:
http://theintelhub.com/2011/05/08/herman-cain-exposed-no-need-to-audit-the-federal-reserve/
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