Geitner: Auditing the Fed is a “line that we don’t want to cross”

That is faulty logic.

All these banks should be WAMU'd.

Instead of shuffling in Trillions of tax payer funds to shore up the crooks who made the faulty ( fraudulent? ) business decisions , the bank deposits should be secured and the banks should be pushed into receivership.

By giving these aholes money to bail them out, you strengthen the hands of those who oversee the corrupt crooked culture inside these organizations.

In the long run the banking problem will worsen since the malignant elements have pushed out the good decision makers.




Quote from Landis82:

I think that he and Bernanke are worried that making this info PUBLIC will allow people to see just WHO the weakest banks are in the financial system and cause a run on them.
 
Quote from mgabriel01:

Why collect taxes if you can print the shit at will?
Basic law of supply and demand --- too much of any particular widget and the price of the widget drops

the dollar is a widget
simple simple simple

I don't get your point. Who cares if the dollar gets weaker - everyone else's currency is in bad shape as well.



The treasury collects tax revenue.

The Fed issues reserve notes backed by its member banks.
 
Quote from peilthetraveler:

If you own shares in a company, dont you have the right to look at the books? If a company is issuing trillions of shares the way the fed is issuing trillions of dollars, dont you think your shares are getting diluted? I know I want to know if my dollars are being diluted, dont you?

And actually they do get taxpayer money. When the government wants say 50 billion dollars, they sell 50 billion in bonds to the fed. Then they have to pay the fed money (from TAXPAYER revenue) to pay the interest on the bonds.

We, as taxpayers, don't own any shares in the Fed. Your analogy is fail. A reserve note is NOT OWNERSHIP IN THE FED - IT"S A MARKER FOR SOMETHING THE FED HAS. When you play poker in a casino you exchange your dollars for poker chips - this doesn't mean you own part of the building or part of the company that runs the casino!! Using your logic every IOU California issued should be able to be redeemed for any piece of land in the state, even if someone else owns it free-and-clear.


As for your bond example, that's the govt. making a purchase: a business-to-business transaction, just like the DoD purchasing a fighter jet from Lockheed Martin. Much different then the govt. giving AIG 80 billion dollars to save it. Do we ask to audit Lockheed Martin's entire company books when we purchase a plane? Of course not, that would be silly.


People think there are all these malicious things going on. Why do they collect taxes if they print money? For fuck sakes people the economy is a machine and an elastic one at that. Wealth needs to be created and destroyed constantly. It will never go in a straight line up or down.
 
Quote from krazykarl:

I don't get your point. Who cares if the dollar gets weaker - everyone else's currency is in bad shape as well.



The treasury collects tax revenue.

The Fed issues reserve notes backed by its member banks.

why do i get a feeling u are associated somehow /w the Fed. i care if the dollar gets weaker as i holds it and i use it to purchase actual goods a services, what a dolt ! whether a disclosure will hurt the banks or not is another matter but one do care if u have an entity with vast powers and is not accountable to anyone
 
Quote from achilles28:

Surprise, surprise.

Lackey-Boy Geitner comes out swinging for his Banker Masters. Apparently, Taxpayers have no business asking questions about their money!! Just leave that to Geitner and his Wallstreet buddies. They'll take care of everything...


I'm sure it's all just part of the better transparency platform his boss campaigned on last year.

:(
 
Quote from monty21:

How is transparency bad?

Audit the Fed! They have already destroyed the US Dollar by continually increasing the money supply. Look up any 10 year chart with the US $ to any other major currency.

Bloomberg TV put up a chart this morning that I caught a glimpse of, and the dollar is really stumbling badly now. It was a chart going back to 1990. Lowest point is now, and a plunge took place during the last eight weeks.
 
Didn't you hear Bernanke? "I don't think the public wants politicians making monetary policy."
So that must mean that what we really all want is a clique of private bankers making it behind closed doors - right?...
 
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