It's true your not letting me off easy! The big stumbling block is the Fed. I guess I am just a sucker for what the government, the Fed, the courts, and boring old common sense tell me. They all say the Fed is not a private entity but just another agency of the Government like the Treasury. If the Fed is a private concern, they are pretty stupid to give all their profits to the Treasury, don't you think? Every cent of profit they make flows right back to the U.S. Treasury. I have even gone so far as to point out that both the Treasury and the Fed are actually just different parts of the government's overall money operation, made to appear by statutory law as though they are independent of each other in an attempt to protect monetary policy from political influence... The sort of stuff I post really drives ET "experts" nuts. When I post such heresy I've had ET folks go hyperbolic on me. I guess they think the court is also nuts, because the Second Circuit appeals Court in
