Re: [Solar-general] Segun Clarin, Linux dominará el mundo

Vie Abr 10 19:23:29 CEST 2009

Pues ya que te fijas, lee un poco más, si te fijas en
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Act podrás ver entre otra cosas

"The Act

The plan adopted in the original Federal Reserve Act called for the creation
of a System that contained both private and public entities. There were to
be at least eight, and no more than 12, *private* regional Federal reserve
banks (*12 were established*) each with its own branches, ..."
O los diferentes pedidos de abolir el FED Act por inconstitucional, por
ejemplo aquí http://www.petitiononline.com/fedres/petition.html

El ejecutivo pone algunos directores, pero la entidad es a lo sumo
"semi-pública" como se menciona en alguna parte del Act, pero creo que lo de
semi en la práctica ermina siendo "micro" y la privada "casi-todo"

2009/4/10 Sebastian Bassi <sbassi en clubdelarazon.org>

> 2009/4/10 Jorge Barbeito <jorge.barbeito en gmail.com>:
> > los dueños de la FED (la que recientemente me enteré que es una empresa
> > privada y cuyos accionistas son grandes bancos). En la composición
> inicial,
>
> No es una empresa ni es privada (ademas tiene dominio .gov). Es una
> ente mixto publico con componentes privados:
>
> "is the central banking system of the United States. Created in 1913
> by the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, it is a quasi-public
> (government entity with private components) banking system[1] that
> comprises (1) the presidentially appointed Board of Governors of the
> Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C.; (2) the Federal Open
> Market Committee; (3) twelve regional privately-owned Federal Reserve
> Banks located in major cities throughout the nation acting as fiscal
> agents for the U.S. Treasury, each with its own nine-member board of
> directors; (4) numerous other private U.S. member banks, which
> subscribe to required amounts of non-transferable stock in their
> regional Federal Reserve Banks; and (5) various advisory councils. "
>
> Tambien dice la wikipedia:
>
> Balance between private banks and responsibility of governments
>
> The system was designed out of a compromise between the competing
> philosophies of privatization and government regulation.[22] While
> planning the design of the system, some people wanted the system to
> have generally private aspects whereas others wanted more government
> involvement. The system that resulted ended up being a compromise
> between these two philosophies. In 2006 Donald L. Kohn, vice chairman
> of the Board of Governors, summarized the history of this
> compromise:[25]
>
>    Agrarian and progressive interests, led by William Jennings Bryan,
> favored a central bank under public, rather than banker, control. But
> the vast majority of the nation's bankers, concerned about government
> intervention in the banking business, opposed a central bank structure
> directed by political appointees.
>
>    The legislation that Congress ultimately adopted in 1913 reflected
> a hard-fought battle to balance these two competing views and created
> the hybrid public-private, centralized-decentralized structure that we
> have today.
>
> In the current system, private banks are for-profit businesses but
> government regulation places restrictions on what they can do. The
> Federal Reserve System is the part of government that regulates the
> private banks. The balance between privatization and government
> involvement is also seen in the structure of the system. Private banks
> elect members of the board of directors at their regional Federal
> Reserve Bank while the members of the Board of Governors are selected
> by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate. The
> private banks give input to the government officials about their
> economic situation and these government officials use this input in
> Federal Reserve policy decisions. In the end, private banking
> businesses are able to run a profitable business while the U.S.
> government, through the Federal Reserve System, oversees and regulates
> the activities of the private banks.
>
>
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