To me.... an independent agency is private.
Alan Greenspan @ 7:38,
Ben Bernanke @ 1:30 and the
two puppets @ 4:40 running for office seem to agree.
Who owns the FED?
Audit the Federal Reserve, to be 100% sure, maybe? Bank regulatory agencies regarding stock ownership in the top 25 US bank holding companies were given Freedom of Information Act status, before being denied on national security grounds. So lets concentrate and focus on what is known.
US Trust Corporation – founded in 1853 and now owned by Bank of America. A recent US Trust Corporate Director and Honorary Trustee was Walter Rothschild. Other directors included Daniel Davison of JP Morgan Chase, Richard Tucker of Exxon Mobil, Daniel Roberts of Citigroup and Marshall Schwartz of Morgan Stanley.
Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo own Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco; in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European families, old money.
According to company 10K filings to the SEC, the Four elites of banking are among the top ten stock holders of virtually every Fortune 500 corporation.
Top five American banks.
JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs
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Some of their Minyons, in no particular order...
Bank for International Settlements
IMF -- International Monetary Fund
The World Bank Group
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Federal Open Market Committee
2012 - The members of the FOMC
Ben S. Bernanke, Board of Governors, Chairman
William C. Dudley, New York
Elizabeth A. Duke, Board of Governors
Jeffrey M. Lacker, Richmond
Dennis P. Lockhart, Atlanta
Sandra Pianalto, Cleveland
Sarah Bloom Raskin, Board of Governors
Daniel K. Tarullo, Board of Governors
John C. Williams, San Francisco
Janet L. Yellen, Board of Governors, Vice Chairman
Alternate Members
James Bullard, St. Louis
Charles L. Evans, Chicago
Esther George, Kansas City
Eric S. Rosengren, Boston
Christine M. Cumming, First Vice President, New York
Working Group on Financial Markets - Group of Thirty
Internal Revenue Service - (
1984 Grace Commission Report)
Exchange Stabilization Fund
Export-Import Bank of the United States