The Federal Reserve â the quasi-autonomous body that controls the USâs money supply â is a âPonzi schemeâ that created âbubble after bubbleâ in the US economy and needs to be held accountable for its actions, says Eliot Spitzer, the former governor and attorney-general of New York. In a wide-ranging discussion of the bank bailouts on MSNBCâs Morning Meeting, host Dylan Ratigan described the process by which the Federal Reserve exchanged $13.9 trillion of bad bank debt for cash that it gave to the struggling banks. Spitzer â who built a reputation as âthe Sheriff of Wall Streetâ for his zealous prosecutions of corporate crime as New Yorkâs attorney-general and then resigned as the stateâs governor over revelations he had paid for prostitutes â seemed to agree with Ratigan that the bank bailout amounts to âAmericaâs greatest theft and cover-up ever.â Advocating in favor of a House bill to audit the Federal Reserve, Spitzer said: âThe Federal Reserve has benefited for decades from the notion that it is quasi-autonomous, itâs supposed to be independent. Let me tell you a dirty secret: The Fed has done an absolutely disastrous job since [former Fed Chairman] Paul Volcker left. âThe reality is the Fed has blown it. Time and time again, they blew it. Bubble after bubble, they failed to understand what they were doing to the economy. âThe most poignant example for me is the AIG bailout, where they gave tens of billions of dollars that went right through â conduit payments â to the investment banks that are now solvent. We [taxpayers] didnât get stock in those banks, they didnât ask what was going on â this begs and cries out for hard, tough examination. âYou look at the governing structure of the New York [Federal Reserve], it was run by the very banks that got the money. This is a Ponzi scheme, an inside job. It is outrageous, it is time for Congress to say enough of this. And to give them more power now is crazy. âThe Fed needs to be examined carefully.â Spitzer resigned as governor of New York in March, 2008, after news reports stated he had paid for a $1,000-an-hour New York City call girl. At the time, Spitzer had been raising the alarm about sub-prime mortgages. In the wake of the economic meltdown triggered last fall by sub-prime loans, some observers have suggested that Spitzer may have been targeted by law enforcement because of his high-profile opposition to Wall Street financial policies. Investigative reporter Greg Palast wrote that federal agentsâ revealing of Spitzerâs identity as a call-girl customer was no coincidence. Palast wrote that the principle of âprosecutorial discretionâ is often used to keep the names of high-profile persons out of the media when they are tangentially linked to a criminal investigation. In the case of Spitzer, the Justice Department chose not to invoke prosecutorial discretion. Funny thing, this âdiscretion.â For example, Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, paid Washington DC prostitutes to put him in diapers (ewww!), yet the Senator was not exposed by the US prosecutors busting the pimp-ring that pampered him. Naming and shaming and ruining Spitzer â rarely done in these cases - was made at the âdiscretionâ of Bushâs Justice Department. Spitzer recently told Bloomberg News that President Obamaâs regulatory reforms of the financial sector are âirrelevantâ because regulatory agencies have not been enforcing corporate laws to begin with. âRegulatory agencies already had the power to do everything they needed to do,â he said. âThey just affirmatively chose not to do it.â http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/25/spitzer-federal-reserve-is-a-ponzi-scheme-an-inside-job/
It has to suck for him to be "on the outside and looking in". As I was reading the article, a voice in my head kept repeating over and over ("Spitzer, he's that guy who likes whores").
I think Spitzer ought to worry about keeping his rocket in his pocket, rather than analyzing and evaluating our system. He might be right in what he says here, but his credibility is total shit.
Are you a woman? Men don't care about that. His importance is reduced because he no longer is in a position of power, but his reputation on these matters is unchanged.
yeah - hes the guy who likes anonymous blow jobs from super model looking young women. as opposed to all those other guys... (who are gay)