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To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (8662)	12/12/1997 3:21:00 PM
From: Picanoc	Respond to of 10482

>You are correct. There is NO ONE that the CB's answer to in ANY >MATTER, IN ANY COUNTRY. They are independent,above audit and it could >all be smoke and mirrors for all anyone can "PROVE" This is simply not true. Central banks around the world run a tremendous range in terms of autonomy/independence, from the Bundesbank (extremely autonomous) to cases (until recently France) where the monetary authority was entirely subservient to the fiscal authority. Some are more accountable to democratic government than is necessarily healthy - because politicians can buy votes with inflation. > If one is to believe the piece on the net re: Rothschilds, they are probably the closest to knowing if anyone does. Call me prejudiced, but when an article quotes from a publication that has published Holocaust denial pieces more than once, I become skeptical. Further, if you look at the 'conservative compounding' numbers for their 'secret wealth' they own world GNP for several years . Astronomical wealth, or stupid math, you make the choice. > All the reporting is voluntary on a "what they want us to know" >basis. That, again, varies from country, but isn't particularly true of yours -but the Fed does have an artful way of reporting things to make information difficult to glean. Ian