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Re:SVB Depositors, Investors Tried to Pull $42B Thursday by TexanFeller on Saturday March 11, 2023 @08:37AM (#35108152)
> Even regulators are regulated

Ron Paul campaigned for "auditing the Fed" perhaps more than he campaigned for president. Was he exaggerating, or does Congress not actually audit and otherwise oversee the Fed?

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Re:SVB Depositors, Investors Tried to Pull $42B Thursday by eru on Saturday March 11, 2023 @10:00PM (#35115998)
The Fed gets regular audits as far as I can tell. But perhaps Ron Paul was campaigning for more thorough ones? (Or it was just a good sound bite?)

https://www.econlib.org/archives/2009/07/audit_the_fed_o.htm... and https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2009/0803/p09s0... might be interesting.

You might also like https://www.alt-m.org/2020/03/30/when-the-fed-tried-to-save-...

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