TY - BOOK AU - Paul,Ron TI - End the FED SN - 9780446549196 AV - HG 2563 P324e 2009 U1 - 332.1/10973 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Grand Central Pub. KW - Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) KW - Sistema de la Reserva Federal (Estados Unidos) KW - Federal Reserve banks KW - Monetary policy KW - United States KW - Banks and banking, Central KW - PolĂ­tica monetaria KW - Estados Unidos KW - Bancos KW - Banco Federal de Reservas KW - Reservas bancarias federales N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-212); Why you should care -- Origin and nature of the Fed -- My intellectual influences -- Central banks and war -- The gold commission -- Conversations with Greenspan -- Conversations with Bernanke -- Congress's interest in monetary policy -- The current mess -- Why end the Fed -- The philosophical case -- The constitutional case -- The economic case -- The libertarian case -- The way out N2 - The author draws on American history, economics and fascinating stories from his own long political life to argue that the Federal Reserve is both corrupt and unconstitutional, inflating currency and threatening to put us into an inflationary depression. He also tells us where we went wrong and what we need to do fix America's economic policy for future generations ER -