A good answer to why Banks are not free enterprises

Posted by $ blarman 2 years, 1 month ago to Economics
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Finally a good answer to why we shouldn't treat banks like other free enterprise businesses: because they get their license to operate from the government in the first place they aren't free enterprises. They are actually extensions of the government and as such should be held to the same standards with respect to First Amendment protections.

Now of course that would all change if we were to abolish the Federal Reserve and go back to a gold standard. Then banks would be free to store gold and lend out against those reserves as they used to more than 100 years ago.
SOURCE URL: https://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2022/03/09/cowards-and-leaders-n2604292


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  • Posted by freedomforall 2 years, 1 month ago
    In my view free enterprise is a productive, competitive free market. Banking is the opposite.
    The only thing that banks produce is inflation.
    They profit (actually it's looting and stealing) because they can loan money at interest they didn't invest and never had.
    That is created under a government granted monopoly with zero competition.
    There is no innocent banker. They are all thieving scoundrels.
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 2 years, 1 month ago
    I guess the answer is to keep as much of your money in cash as you can, and not put it in banks.
    But not to let many people know about it.
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    • Posted by $ 2 years, 1 month ago
      That's another part of the insidiousness of the plan: inflation really punishes those who don't "participate" in the system by investing - even if it is just to hedge against inflation. I'm beginning to think that of all the evils in the financial world, inflationary policies are the worst as they can cause or control so many other factors...
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  • Posted by Lucky 2 years, 1 month ago
    Zelenskiy is a posturing clown, not a leader at all. A character twin of Trudeau. The Ukrainian banking system is corrupt enough but not efficient enough to selectively freeze accounts.
    Trampling protesters- that is what his regime has been doing for years to protesters in the Russian ethnic areas, but with guns not horses. Showing the handing out of guns is just theater, para military extremist groups have all the guns they can use.

    blarman's claim is still correct. Banks are an extension of the state with even less accountability than we may think the state has.
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