I see one problem in central banks being private. No such central bank would ever act against its shareholders even if the shareholders objectively spoil the domestic financial market (misleading advertising, final tranche of a loan not released, excessive credit exposure, etc.) Such a private central bank would see the market with the eyes of its shareholding banks and would act for the benefit of shareholding banks mainly - that's my guess I can't imagine a privately-owned central bank cancel its member (shareholder) bank's licence for, e.g. cheating on its customers.
2 central banks are private. The US Federal reserve bank and the Bank of England. Both are large share holders of the Bank for International Settlements. More than 80% of the shareholders of the US federal reserve bank are private European entities which are unlisted. ie. the US economy is owned by European private banking entities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England this source and many more claim Bank of England was nationalised in 1946. Is wikipedia lying?
yes they are lying. Also keep in mind the inner part of London where Bank of England is located has it's own laws separate from the rest of the UK. A parliament member can be booted out without cause.
What you say is just the opposite what my little research proves. Nowhere did I found any evidence that BoE is private. Nowhere! You see, I saw thousand of balance sheets in my life. 99% of them were balance sheets of private corporations and 1% were balance sheets of government entities. All private instututions have item called ''equity'' in their liabilities. Equity is the liability towards the owner. Equity consists of many items, Two major are: ''share capital'' and ''retained earnings''. No government institution has equity / share capital in its balance sheet. Why? Because unlike private institutions, there can be only one owner in a state-owned entity, namely the state. I saw BoE's balance sheet. No such item as equity / share capital can be identified in it, ergo there is only one owner of BoE. Do you have any evidence that the sole owner of BoE is not the state? Regards
whoever controls the ability to set interest rates and the fractional reserve requirements controls banking in that nation. Tell me when was the last time the British parliament set interest rates? It's like Enron. You can own majority shares, but whoever controls the board members controls the corporation. The structure is a facade. You may own the structure, but whoever controls the structure controls the entity. Also keep in mind that for banking entities with low reserve requirements, any large depositor, whose deposit exceeds the reserve require, effectively controls the bank. The British banking crisis in october was created by large private money threatening to withdraw all cash deposits.
Still, what you wrote does not prove BoE is private. I did my homework and checked BoE's balance sheet a few day ago. The balance structure shows BoE is a state owned entity and has only one owner.
Questioning whether a central bank is private or not is the incorrect question. The question should be when will the current form of debt fueled capitalism implode. The answer is, the implosion will happen within our lifetime. This is a great video explaining fractional banking http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...AKvwNjrCg&q=How+much+“MONEY”+exists+on+Earth?
The owner is Monarchy of Great Britain, which is private, it doesn't mean for public state own, as re-public.
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