| Jackson50 said: The problem is the Fed's duty is not to expand the markets. It is to maintain a sound money supply and it has been woefully inept in that regard. To be honest, if congress had more control over the Fed, the problem would be exacerbated. Can you imagine the congresspeople setting the interest rates? I would not mind the Fed if competing currencies were allowed. Unfortunately, that is no longer the case.
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Yes I can, and I imagine it being even worse than it is now. The Fed may not be perfect, but I would rather have them in control of interests rates than Congress.
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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
