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What I have been afraid to blog about: The ESF and Its History (Part 1)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ssrcD5GdPQ&am...player_embedded

Links to material covered in video:

INTRO

target="_blank" Exchange Stabilization Fund — Introduction (Treasury’s website)

target="_blank" Above a Chinese Cafe, GAO Men Investigate Secret Treasury Unit (Wall Street Journal, Jan 28, 1971)

Us Treasury Has Control-free ‘kitty (St. Petersburg Times, May 24, 1976)

target="_blank" Two Billions Secretly Used By Treasury (Gettysburg Times, Dec 7, 1940)


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The ESF’s official purpose is defending (stabilizing) the value of the dollar

Google Archive News results for target="_blank" “exchange stabilization fund

target="_blank" Exchange Stabilization FundFedpoints (New York Fed’s website)

target="_blank" U.S. Bought $1 Billion During March Yen Intervention (Business Week, May 13, 2011)

TREASURY SETS UP TWO-BILLION FUND FOR STABILIZATION (New York Times, May 1, 1934)

Google Archive News results for target="_blank" Inflation or deflation debate

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The ESF operates FROM WITHIN the New York Fed

target="_blank" Exchange Stabilization FundFedpoints (New York Fed’s website)

Exchange Stabilization Fund – Finances and Operations (Treasury’s website)






target="_blank" Dollar’s Defense (Wall Street Journal, Mar 1, 1962)

target="_blank" Fed to lend $85 billion to AIG, take 80 percent stake (Reuters, Sep 16, 2008)

target="_blank" Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows (Bloomberg, Jan 28, 2010)

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The ESF has authority over all International Monetary Affairs

target="_blank" Exchange Stabilization Fund – Relations with the Federal Reserve (Treasury’s website)

target="_blank" Exchange Stabilization Fund — Introduction (Treasury’s website)

The Fed Debate in the 1960s over Sterilized Foreign Exchange Intervention (Richmond Fed’s website)

target="_blank" William McChesney Martin, Jr. (From Wikipedia)

US Fed launches four new currency swap lines (Reuters, Oct 30, 2008)

target="_blank" AIG borrows $90.3 billion from Federal Reserve (Reuters, Oct 24, 2008)

Intervention: Simple but Secret (New York Times, Jan 7, 1988)

Google Archive News results for target="_blank" McCain takes lead over Obama: poll

target="_blank" McCain takes lead over Obama: poll (Reuters, Aug 20, 2008)

target="_blank" Questions for Mr. Geithner (New York Times, Dec 14, 2008)

target="_blank" White House Insider: Eric Holder Is Gonna Fall (Newsflavor, May 9, 2011 )

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The ESF keeps a low profile using the Fed as a front.

target="_blank" Get Briefed: Dr. Ron Paul (Forbes, Jan 11, 2010)

target="_blank" U.S. Monetary Authorities Intervened in FX Markets during the First Quarter (New York Fed’s website, May 13, 2011)

Google Archive News results for target="_blank" “US monetary authorities

target="_blank" System Open Market AccountFedpoints (New York Fed’s website)

Fed takes heat on AIG from both sides of Congress (Reuters, Sep 22, 2008)






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Hijacking the Fed

target="_blank" FRASER » Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research
Author(s): United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency
Title: Gold Reserve Act of 1934: Hearings on S. 2366
Citation:  Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, Jan 19-23, 1934. – pp.

HEARINGS ON THE GOLD RESERVE ACT OF 1934 (Fed’s website)





target="_blank" Full Resolution

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Taking control of America’s gold

Above a Chinese Cafe, GAO Men Investigate Secret Treasury Unit (Wall Street Journal, Jan 28, 1971)

target="_blank" History of Federal Reserve Free Edition

target="_blank" 8.5 BILLION IN GOLD IS SECRETLY REMOVED FROM NEW YORK TO FORT KNOX (Lewiston Daily Sun, Mar 1, 1941)

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The ESF was guaranteed disaster

HEARINGS ON THE GOLD RESERVE ACT OF 1934 (Fed’s website)

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Dictatorial power and no oversight

Here’s Idea Where That 2 Billion Dollars Is Going (San Jose News, Apr 12, 1934)

target="_blank" McGugin, Leading Drive to Put Stabilization Under Board, Rallies Only 73 Votes (New York Times, Jan 21, 1934)

The Exchange Stabilization Fund: Slush Money or War Chest?
target="_blank" Chapter 3 — ESF’s History


target="_blank" Congressional Record (July 16 1998)

target="_blank" Stabilization Fund Secrecy Due to Desire to Avoid Publicity on Possible Losses (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jan 27, 1934).


Eric de Carbonnel


 

 

 



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