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bobbyw24
05-02-2011, 06:26 AM
It's spring, and the marchers are out, right and left, protesting Comcast and the Federal Reserve, taxes and the companies that pay them, or don't.

Four days before Ben S. Bernanke gave the first news conference by a Federal Reserve chairman to defend his cheap-money policy, more than 100 descended last weekend on the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia to cheerfully demand that the nation's central-banking system shut down.

Supporters of presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R., Texas), libertarian- and tea party-backed author of the book End the Fed and current head of the House banking subcommittee for monetary policy, held their third yearly Philadelphia "Fedstock" festival, with live music, in hopes of making the arcane cause of private, competing, gold-backed currencies popular.

http://articles.philly.com/2011-05-01/business/29493495_1_income-tax-central-bank-control-interest-rates