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By kayrun, May 27 at 2:36 pm #

Instead of the feeding of daisies in the daisy gun, we should be showing shredded Federal Reserve Notes.

Does anyone have an explanation for why any government with the power to print its own money would borrow notes from the Federal Reserve (or other central bank), pay interest on the notes to the Federal Reserve, to use as its own money?

What kind of insanity is this?

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