Most people have no idea what the Federal Reserve is — or how much control it has over their life 🇺🇸
🤫 It’s not part of the US government. It wasn’t created by the Constitution. It was set up in 1913 after a group of bankers and politicians met in secret on Jekyll Island to design a system that would give private banks a permanent role in managing the nation’s money.
The Fed is a public-private hybrid. It has officials appointed by the president, but it’s owned by commercial banks. These banks hold shares in the system and get guaranteed dividends 🏦
💸 The new money enters the financial system through large institutions. Banks receive it first when the Fed purchases assets like Treasury bonds. They get access first and deploy it into assets. Prices rise before wages or consumer incomes catch up — and inflation hits the public last.
Since the Fed was created, the dollar has lost over 95% of its value. The cost of housing, education, and healthcare exploded. Wages didn’t keep up. If you didn’t own assets, you fell behind 💵
The 2008 crisis made it obvious. Banks made reckless bets, collapsed, and got bailed out by the government. They simply socialized losses, the Fed printed trillions to save the system. Regular people got foreclosures and layoffs.
🤑 The Fed enables fractional reserve banking. For every $1 you deposit, banks can lend out $100 or more. That money didn’t exist before. Now you pay interest on it. By doing this, private banks effectively create new money out of nothing boosting the inflation.
The system creates constant moral hazard. Each time markets break, the Fed intervenes to contain the fallout. Risk-taking gets reinforced, not punished — and the cycle repeats.
😎 The Fed isn’t accountable. Its meetings are closed. Its members aren’t elected. And yet it decides how much your money is worth.
It doesn’t matter if you believe in conspiracies. This isn’t a secret. It’s just how the system works — and you were never meant to benefit from it 📉
