Excellent comments, all. My purpose in starting this thread was to see if anyone had better information than what Griffin had, in his creature book about how the money flows into and out of the federal reserve. IMHO the best way to figure out an investment/company/corruption is to follow the money. What is interesting is that no one had any info better than what griffin had on pages 195 to 201 of his book. As you can tell by reading the posts, alot of opinion about alot of things but the bottom line is you cannot understand the fed, and therefore have an informed opinion about the fed until you know the money flows into and out of the fed. I don’t believe many people understand this but if what griffin says is true, despite his political leanings, which are irrelevant to the facts, the fed probably keeps billions of our money and influences governments to do what is in its best interest, not necesarily the american peoples best interest. I repeat, not one post offered any new information on the money flow through the fed. I find that very illuminating.