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Sovereign Bear | 7 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 These people consider themselves untouchable.

Small to zero chance much changes under Trump IMO. Maybe he'll free Ross, that's as much as people could hope for.

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OceanSlim | 7 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 The Federal reserve is a private institution. Trump can't fire Powell from the Fed the same way he can't fire Elon from Tesla
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Sovereign Bear | 7 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I understand that. That's one of the reasons they have been able to get away with their fiat scam for so long.

They will go to unimaginable extremes to protect their interests, though.
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Reverend Hodl | 7 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Fighting to change or control the Fed isn't where energy is best spent. Build freedom tech, teach and promote its adoption. Make it so easy to use that it is indistinguishable from other non-freedom rails and don't give these Fed clowns a second thought. 

What if...? 
One day everyone just stopped using their systems?
One day everyone stopped paying taxes?

It seems improbable now but newspapers never believed they could be displaced. They were too big and powerful. Yet Craigslist chipped away at their revenue sources (classifieds). Zines replaced Op Ed pages. Twitter made a morning and evening "Extra" seem archaic. When the cracks began to show but it was too late, the world had moved on.
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Sovereign Bear | 7 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Great points.