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  • You are about to learn one of the biggest secrets

  • in the history of the world. It's a secret

  • that has huge effects for everyone who lives on this planet.

  • Most people can feel deep down that something isn't quite right

  • the world economy, but few know what it is

  • Gone are the days where a family can survive on

  • just one paycheck, every day it seems things are more and more

  • out of control, yet only one in a million understand why.

  • You are about to discover

  • the system that is ultimately responsible for most of the inequality in our

  • world today. The powers that be do not

  • want you to know about this, as this system is what has kept them at the top of

  • the financial food chain for the last 100 years.

  • Learning this will change your life because it will change the choices that you make.

  • If enough people learn it, it will change the world...

  • because it'll change the system.

  • For this is the biggest Hidden Secret Of Money.

  • Never in human history have so many been plundered by so

  • few,

  • And it's all accomplished through this, The Biggest Scam

  • In the History of Mankind

  • They say that money doesn't grow on trees

  • but the truth is that the modern banking system creates currency far faster than

  • trees can grow.

  • Most people don't have a clue how currency is created

  • economists and bankers make it sound so complex that people think they can't

  • understand it.

  • But I'm going to strip our monetary system down to its

  • essence so you can see the scam behind the curtain

  • and just how it affects you. Every modern society creates currency in pretty much

  • the same way

  • but since the US dollar is the majority of the world's currency

  • I'm going to use the United States as our example. It all starts when some

  • politician says 'Vote for me and I'll make sure the government provides you more

  • free stuff than my opponent will'

  • But there's no such thing as a free lunch - so to provide that supposedly free

  • stuff the politicians

  • vote for the country to spend more than its income. This is called deficit spending.

  • To pay for that deficit spending the Treasury borrows currency by issuing a

  • bond.

  • So what's a bond? If you think about it a bond is really nothing but a glorified

  • I.O.U. It's a pretty piece of paper with numbers printed on it that says

  • 'Loan me a trillion dollars today and I promise over a 10-year period

  • I'm gonna pay you back that trillion dollars plus interest.'

  • But what you need to understand is that Treasury bonds

  • are our national debt. These glorified I.O.U.s

  • are to be paid back by you and I and our descendants through future taxation.

  • Therefore:

  • When the government issues a bond it steals prosperity

  • out as the future so that it can spend it today. The Treasury then holds a bond

  • auction

  • and the world's largest banks show up and compete to buy part of our national debt

  • and make a profit on by earning interest. You'll notice that as we move through

  • this process

  • the big banks are there taking a cut every step of the way.

  • This isn't by chance as you'll see shortly. Then,

  • through a shell game called Open Market Operations the banks get to sell some of

  • those bonds to the Federal Reserve

  • at a profit. To pay for the bonds the Federal Reserve

  • opens up its big old checkbook and writes bad

  • bogus counterfeit checks that should bounce because they're drawn on an account that

  • always has a zero balance, there isn't one penny

  • in there. To quote from the Boston Federal Reserve: 'When you are I write a

  • check there must be sufficient funds

  • in our account to cover that check, but when the Federal Reserve writes a check

  • there is no bank deposit on which that check is drawn.

  • When the Federal Reserve writes a check it is creating money."

  • The Fed then hands those checks to the banks and at this point currency

  • springs into existence.

  • The banks then take that currency and buy more bonds at the next Treasury

  • auction.

  • But what is a check? A check is also an I.O.U.

  • When you write a check you're making a note that says "Here's my I.O.U. for

  • cash,

  • all you have to do is go to the bank and pick it up." Now it's very very important

  • that you understand this process

  • because we're going to come back later and show you the devastating effect this

  • has on you.

  • The treasury issues I.O.U.s, (bonds).

  • The banks then buy those I.O.U.s with currency. The Federal Reserve

  • then writes I.O.U.s (checks) and hands them to the banks in exchange for the

  • Treasury's I.O.U.s

  • (the bonds). And currency is created. So what's really happening is the Federal

  • Reserve and the Treasury

  • are just swapping I.O.U.s, using the banks as middlemen,

  • and abracadabra presto currency magically springs into existence.

  • This process repeats and repeats over and over again

  • enriching the banks and indebting the public by raising the national debt.

  • The end result is that there's a buildup of bonds at the Federal Reserve

  • and currency at the Treasury. This process is also where

  • all paper currency comes from. The Federal Reserve and the government

  • mistakenly call it 'Base Money'

  • because they didn't watch Episode 1 of this series, and they don't know the

  • difference between money

  • and currency. But I will correctly refer to it as 'Base Currency' because

  • it is not money...

  • it is CURRENCY, and as we've learned there is a big difference:

  • Money has to be a store of value and maintain its purchasing power over

  • long periods of time.

  • We learned in Episode 1 that earlier in our history our paper currency was

  • just a claim check.

  • It was a representation for real money of intrinsic value,

  • the gold and silver that was held on deposit at the Treasury.

  • You could walk into any bank and slap your currency, like say a twenty dollar

  • bill

  • on the counter, and redeem it for real moneyÉa twenty dollar gold piece.

  • But now this base currency that's piling up back here

  • is really nothing but a receipt or a claim check on an I.O.U.

  • (that bond), so it's really nothing but a supply of numbers.

  • The Treasury then deposits the newly created currency in the various branches

  • of the government,

  • and the politicians say "Hey thanks for that!",

  • and the government does some deficit spending on public works,

  • social programs, and war.

  • The government employees, contractors and soldiers then deposit their pay in the

  • banks.

  • Now this may come as a shock to you, but when you deposit your currency with the bank

  • you're not

  • actually depositing it into an account to be safely held in trust for you.

  • Instead, you're actually loaning the bank your currency,

  • and within certain legal limits they can do with it pretty much anything they please.

  • This includes gambling in the stock market, and loaning it out...

  • at a profit of course.

  • Now this is where the machine of currency creation really gets cranking,

  • because this is where something called 'Fractional Reserve Lending' comes into

  • play.

  • Fractional Reserve Lending is exactly what it says. The banks are allowed

  • to reserve only a fraction of your deposit and loan the rest out.

  • Although reserve ratios may vary, I'm going to use a 10 percent reserve ratio

  • as our example.

  • If you deposit $100 dollars in your account, the bank can legally take ninety

  • dollars of it and loan it out without telling you.

  • The bank must hold ten dollars of your deposit in reserve

  • just in case you want some of it. These reserves are called 'Vault Cash'.

  • But why does your bank account still say you have one hundred dollars if the bank

  • has stolen ninety dollars of it?

  • Because the bank left I.O.U.s it created called 'bank credit'

  • in its place. Now I know this sounds crazy,

  • but here it is in black and white from the Fed: "Commercial banks create

  • checkbook money

  • when they grant a loan simply by adding new deposit dollars in accounts

  • on their books in exchange for a borrower's I.O.U."

  • These are nothing but numbers that the banks type into their computers,

  • and even though these bank credit I.O.U. numbers

  • are very different from base currency numbers (because they only exist in

  • computers),

  • they are still currency. So now there is one hundred ninety dollars in existence.

  • Now the reason people take out loans from the banks is to buy something.

  • They're going to buy a house or a car or something like that.

  • So the borrower takes the ninety dollars that the bank loaned to him from your account,

  • and he pays the seller of item. But then the seller deposits that currency

  • into his account,

  • and his bank loans out ninety percent of that,

  • and leaves bank credit numbers in its place. So now there's two hundred and

  • seventy-one dollars in existence.

  • This process repeats and repeats until under a 10 percent reserve ratio

  • an initial deposit of just one hundred dollars can create up to one thousand

  • dollars of bank credit

  • all backed by one hundred dollars of vault cash,

  • just 10 percent. But as I said reserve ratios vary wildly...

  • on some deposits it's 10 percent on others

  • its 3 percent and on some forms of deposits reserve requirements

  • are zero! The result is that the expansion the currency supply by the banks is

  • far greater than even this example would lead you to believe.

  • So once again, when currency is deposited in the banks,

  • the banks get to lend it out and then it gets we redeposited and relent,

  • redeposited and relent, redeposited and relent

  • over and over again creating bank credit all the way.

  • This is where the vast majority of our currency supply comes from.

  • In fact 92 to 96 percent of

  • all currency in existence is created not by the government,

  • but here in the banking system. Now,

  • massive amounts of currency spewing into society may at first sound like a fun

  • idea...

  • that is until you remember one of the most important Hidden Secrets Of Money

  • from Episode 1:

  • That the prices of everyday goods and services act as a sponge

  • on an expanding currency supply. The more currency we have

  • the more prices rise.

  • This is where inflation comes from. The true definition of inflation

  • is an expansion of the currency supply, rising prices

  • are merely the symptom.

  • So our entire currency supply is nothing but a couple bucks whipped up in this

  • hocus-pocus scam

  • where the Treasury and the Federal Reserve swap glorified I.O.U.s

  • and a bunch of numbers that the banks just type into their computers.

  • That's itÉthat's our entire currency supply. It's nothing but a supply of

  • numbers.

  • Some of them printed, most of them typed,

  • and there is nothing else. But if you thought that was crazy,

  • get ready to enter the twilight zone ofmodern economics. We work for some of that

  • currency supply.

  • True wealth is your time, but we trade away moments in our lives

  • hour by hour, day by day, and year by year

  • for numbers that somebody printed on pieces of paper or just typed into a

  • computer.

  • Now those numbers represent our blood, sweat, tears, labor,

  • ideas and talent. We are what gives the currency its value.

  • But here comes the really cruel joke...we work hard,

  • so that we can save some of that currency, so that we can pay the tax collector

  • (in the United States it's known as the IRS), they then turn it over to the Treasury,

  • so that the Treasury can pay the principal plus interest

  • on that bond that the Federal Reserve bought with a check drawn

  • on an account that has nothing in it.

  • Now let's do a recap on this section because this is where the

  • system begins to rob you and I

  • on a massive scale. Much of our taxes are not used for schools, roads and public

  • services,

  • but to pay interest on bonds that the Federal Reserve

  • bought with a check drawn on an account that has nothing

  • in it. The Federal Reserve is committing FRAUD.

  • But here's one of the biggest secrets of them all:

  • Before the establishment at the Federal Reserve there was no need for personal

  • income tax. The Federal Reserve was created in 1913

  • and that very same year the Constitution

  • was amended to allow income tax. Do you really think this was just a coincidence?

  • Ask yourself how much income tax you've paid

  • over your lifetime. Much of it has been silently siphoned away

  • into the hands of those who own the system. Yes this system has owners...

  • who they are is an even bigger secret that we'll get to shortly,

  • but first we need to understand the mumbo jumbo of the so-called

  • 'debt ceiling'. It's all based on a huge paradox:

  • There was interest due on that bond, and there was interest due on

  • every one of those loans that the banks made. That means

  • that there is interest due on every dollar in existence.

  • Let me ask you something: If you borrow the very first dollar into existence and

  • that's the only dollar that exists on the planet,

  • but you promise to pay it back plus another dollars worth of interest...

  • where you get the second dollar to pay the interest? The answer is that you have to

  • borrow that one into existence

  • and promise to pay it back with interest as well, so now there are two

  • dollars in existence

  • but you owe fourÉand so on and so on. The result is there's never enough

  • currency to pay the debt.

  • There is always more debt in the system

  • than there is currency in existence to pay the debt. Therefore,

  • the whole system is impossible it is finite

  • it will come to an end one day. What would happen if the government stopped

  • borrowing to do deficit spending?

  • Are the payments on those treasury bonds going to stop?

  • What would happen if the public stopped borrowing and going deeper into debt?

  • Are your house and car payments going to stop?

  • No, there is a payment due

  • every month on the principal plus the interest on every dollar in existence

  • and those payments do not stop.

  • If we stop borrowing then no new currency is created to replace the

  • currency that we used to make those payments.

  • Whether you're making a payment on a loan or paying tax to make a payment on

  • a bond,

  • the portion of the payment that goes to pay off the principal

  • extinguishes that portion of the debt. But the debt also extinguishes the

  • currency.

  • Currency and debt are like matter and anti-matter.

  • When they meet they annihilate each other. If we just pay off the principal

  • only

  • on all the loans and bonds that exist the entire currency supply

  • just vanishes. So if we don't go deeper into debt every year

  • look what happens: the whole thing goes into a deflationary collapse under the

  • weight of those payments.

  • Politicians and pundits alike talk about balancing the budget

  • paying down the debt and living within our means. They don't understand that

  • that is deflationary,

  • it is impossible to do under our current monetary system without collapsing the

  • whole economy.

  • This is why any talk of a debt ceiling is not only ridiculous...

  • its delusional. The system is designed to require

  • ever-increasing levels of debt just to continue, and that's why politicians will

  • always

  • kick the can down the road and raise this so-called

  • 'debt ceiling' over and over again until the whole system finally collapses under

  • its own weight.

  • In other words, they don't want it to collapse on their watch.

  • The founding fathers of the United States knew the dangers of central

  • banking and fought to free themselves from this very thing.

  • The revolutionary war started out as a tax revolt,

  • but now we must pay tax just to have a monetary system.

  • Having just suffered through the hyperinflation of the Continental

  • Dollar

  • which was printed into oblivion to finance the Revolutionary War,

  • they understood the dangers of fiat currency and debt based monetary systems.

  • So to protect future generations from institutional theft and

  • out-of-control government they wrote into the constitution that only gold and

  • silver can be money,

  • for the simple fact that you can't print them. Our current system is not only

  • unconstitutional,

  • but it robs us of the liberty and prosperity

  • our forefathers fought and died for. We are all

  • feeling the effects of ignoring the Constitution right now.

  • By forcing more currency into circulation

  • our purchasing power is diluted. Inflation

  • is a slow and insidious stealth tax

  • that is simply the result of this in dept-based monetary system.

  • This system empowers and benefits those who create the currency and receive it

  • first

  • as they get to spend it into circulation before it has an effect on the economy.

  • They're stealing purchasing power from you and transferring it to the banks and the

  • government

  • every hour of every day because of this false monetary system.

  • And it's not like the people at the top don't know this. To quote the Federal Reserve

  • "The decrease in purchasing power incurred by the holders of money

  • due to inflation imparts gains to the issuers of money."

  • This is a fraud, it is a pyramid scheme, it is a Ponzi scheme,

  • it's a scam and it's a lie. Our entire monetary system

  • is nothing but a form of legalized theft. But here's the biggest con job of them all:

  • The Federal Reserve is not federal - it has stockholders.

  • There is no federal agency that has stockholders.

  • What's a stockholder? A stock represents a percentage of

  • ownership in a corporation, so the stockholders

  • are the owners of that corporation. Therefore the Federal Reserve is a

  • private corporation with owners...

  • and you can see it for yourself if you go to the Federal Reserve's website

  • and it will say: "The stockholders receive an annual dividend of

  • six-percent." Now we know that the stock in the Federal Reserve was originally

  • issued

  • to the largest banks in the United States but because of mergers and

  • acquisitions through the years

  • you can't actually trace who owns the stock in the Federal Reserve. That's a

  • very closely guarded secret. My guess would be that the owners

  • are those primary dealers, the banks that get to make a profit

  • by selling part of our national debt- those bonds, to the Federal Reserve

  • who buys them with a check from nothing! Then WE pay tax to pay the principal

  • and the interest on those bonds so that the Federal Reserve can pay the banks a 6

  • percent dividend.

  • Don't be alarmed if you don't quite comprehend the deception of this system

  • at first glance. Very few people do. It is purposely complex.

  • The economist John Maynard Keynes once wrote:

  • "By this means government may secretly and unobserved

  • confiscate the wealth of the people and not one man in a million will detect the

  • theft."

  • I believe that presented correctly

  • anyone can understand the system, regardless of how complex it is.

  • So let's do a recap and break it down even more...

  • The way this system works is that Step 1:

  • The government creates glorified I.O.U.s These bonds increase our national

  • debt,

  • and put the public on the hook to pay it back. Step 2:

  • I.O.U.s are swapped to create currency. The Treasury

  • sells the bonds to the banks. The banks then turn around and sell our national

  • debt

  • at a profit to the Federal Reserve, which they probably own.

  • The Federal Reserve then opens its checkbook that doesn't have a penny in it

  • and buys those I.O.U.s with I.O.U.s it writes,

  • checks on a checking account that has a zero balance.

  • Then they give those checks to the banks and currency just springs into

  • existence,

  • and then the whole process repeats. This results in a build up of bonds at the

  • Federal Reserve,

  • and currency at the Treasury...which is really just a supply of numbers.

  • The Treasury then deposits the numbers in the various branches of the

  • government and we get to Step 3:

  • The government spends the numbers on promises,

  • public works, social programs and war.

  • Then the government employees, contractors and soldiers deposit their

  • pay into the banks

  • and we get to Step 4: Where the banks multiply the numbers by magically

  • inventing more

  • I.O.U.s through Fractional Reserve Lending, where they steal a portion of

  • everyone's deposit and lend it out.

  • That currency gets redeposited and then a portion is stolen again,

  • and the process repeats over and over magnifying the currency supply

  • exponentially.

  • Then we work for some of those numbers which brings us to Step 5:

  • Where our numbers are taxed. We pay taxes to the IRS

  • who then turns our numbers over to the Treasury, so the Treasury can pay the

  • principal plus the interest on bonds that were purchased by the Federal Reserve

  • with a check from nothing. Then we get to Step 6:

  • The Debt Ceiling Delusion. The system is designed to require

  • ever-increasing levels and debt and will eventually collapse under its own weight

  • because politicians

  • always kick the can down the road, they don't want it to collapse on their watch.

  • And finally Step 7: The Secret Owners Take Their Cut.

  • The world's largest banks own the Federal Reserve, those banks make a profit

  • selling our national debt top the Fed,

  • they make a profit when the Fed pays them interest on the reserves held at the Fed,

  • and the Fed pays them a six percent dividend on their

  • ownership of the Fed. This system

  • is fundamentally evil. It funnels wealth from the working population

  • to the government and the banking sector. it is the cause of the artificial booms

  • and busts of modern economies,

  • and it causes great disparity of wealth between the rich and the working class.

  • AND - it is only possible because we no longer use real money,

  • we use currency. But worst of all it is a form of enslavement.

  • BOND is the root word of BONDAGE. Whenever a government issues a bond it

  • is a promise to make us pay tax in the future.

  • Nobody asked you if you wanted to pay tax today for the prosperity we all

  • enjoyed in the last century.

  • Nobody is asking our children if they want to work hard in the future

  • to pay for the prosperity we're enjoying now. George Washington once wrote to

  • James Madison:

  • "No generation has the right to contract debts greater

  • than can be paid off during the course of its own existence."

  • By stealing prosperity from tomorrow so we can spend it today

  • we enslave ourselves and future generations.

  • Now this all sounds pretty bad but there is great hope

  • for YOU are the greatest threat to this false monetary system.

  • This system relies on the public being ignorant of its workings.

  • Please share this knowledge with everyone you know because an informed

  • public

  • that fully understands the system can build a better future

  • for generations to come. And now I leave you with this quote,

  • widely attributed to a former Director of the Bank Of England: "The modern banking system

  • manufacturers money out of nothing.

  • The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that

  • was ever invented.

  • Banking was conceived in iniquity

  • and born in sin. Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them,

  • but leave them the power to create money and control credit and with the flick of a

  • pen

  • they will create enough money to buy it back again. If you want to continue as

  • the slaves of bankers

  • and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money,

  • and to control credit."

  • This the Federal Reserve in Washington DC

  • it's located on Constitution Street, and that is just as much a joke as the New

  • York Fed being located on Liberty Street.

  • Both of them are unconstitutional both of them limit our Liberty,

  • and they transfer wealth away from us every second of every day

  • to the Federal Reserve, to the government and to the banking sector. YOU

  • are now among the one in a million that can detect theft of your prosperity...

  • so the big question is, what can you do about it?

  • 1: Watch this video until you can describe

  • and teach it to others. Those who understand the system

  • can make preparations for its unavoidable collapse

  • and protect themselves. History shows that those who don't

  • will probably wiped out. 2:

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  • takes is a mouse click or two

  • to get this message in front of millions.

  • Post this video on Facebook, Tweet it, email it to loved ones.

  • Please share it wherever you can. 3:

  • Join the conversation. The current world monetary system is based on a three

  • hundred-year-old design

  • meant to enrich a few at the expense of the many...

  • there must be a better way. At HiddenSecretsOfMoney.com

  • we've created an open source platform for the design and development of a new

  • world monetary system. We're calling on

  • every economist, every student, every college,

  • every bright mind and anyone who cares to join the discussion.

  • In educating ourselves and each other we can prevent the further loss of our

  • freedoms

  • and maybe, just maybe win some of them back.

  • ...

  • ...

  • Stay tuned for Ron Paul...

  • ÉJim Rickards, and Steve Forbes

  • Watch more episodes at HiddenSecretsOfMoney.com

  • [Ron Paul] I think your Episode 4 is

  • very beneficial, very helpful, it's gonna introduce these ideas to a lot of

  • people, and like I've just been talking about,

  • we have to change people's minds and the more they understand it the better,

  • and I think we're at this point now where more people in the last

  • several years..four or five years have thought about the Fed than they ever have

  • in the previous ninety five years

  • so I think I an explanation and diagrams to show it is very helpful

  • because quite frankly they're not going to get it in their grade school they're

  • not going to get in their high school

  • they're not going to get it in college unless they're in a very rare

  • circumstance to understand

  • how this works. [Jim Rickards] You know for years before I got involved in

  • huh really studying gold and some of the things I write and talk about today I was a

  • monetary economist for decades you know in your video you talk about the primary

  • dealers

  • I was chief counsel and chief credit officer for one the largest primary dealers for ten

  • years so

  • I had an inside seat on the Treasury market and have the privilege of working

  • with several

  • former Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors: Johnson and

  • David Mullins going back to the 80's and 90's so I'm very immersed in what you're

  • talking about I thought it was

  • extremely accurate, extremely clear,

  • I didn't think you were stretching on any points it was is really like something

  • out of a

  • PhD course except that it was very easy to understand, I think it's accessible,

  • I think I think we're seeing a little bit of a revolution in communications in

  • the following sense you know as you point out the Fed was created in 1913

  • well in 1913 there was no web there was no YouTube, no Twitter

  • there was really no one to stand up and

  • oppose the Fed or call them out if you will, or really get into a discussion

  • that everyday Americans could follow.

  • That's not true now - with social media and everything else

  • you can reach out to millions and tens of millions of people and tell them

  • what's going onÉI think you've done that,

  • You've done it successfully I applaud it, I think it's a great video I

  • look forward to seeing it again, I know millions of people will enjoy it.

  • [Steve Forbes] Well as we know the

  • Federal Reserve believes it can create money out of thin air, and

  • not realize money is supposed to represent real products and services

  • and what people don't realize is when the Fed does that

  • in effect as Keynes pointed out it's a form of taxation,

  • it's a form of confiscation and because people don't see it

  • the politicos get away with it, but it also undermines social trust,

  • it just is corrosive throughout society.

  • We're going to have a lot of turmoil in the coming years,

  • but it's going to be the kind of turmoil that leads to positive things.

  • So don't despair, get out there and fight because

  • the tide is gonna turn. This is going to be the statists last stand.

  • [Mike Maloney] Thank you!

  • [James Anderson] This episode of Mike Maloney's Hidden Secrets Of Money

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