Should Trump Designate the Federal Reserve a Terrorist Organization?

The Federal Reserve has one function: use inflation as a hidden tax while deliberately denying American families access to capital. Forget the debates about interest rates versus money supply. That's misdirection. The Fed exists to STOP small businesses from getting the funds they need to grow, while simultaneously destroying whatever value those businesses have already built through relentless inflation. Money for the deep state. Nothing for the American people. The system is working exactly as designed.

Denial of Capital IS the Point

Trump is the only leader who has said it plainly: "You can't get the loans." He's right. And it's by design. The deep state created the Federal Reserve specifically to control who gets access to capital and who doesn't. If you don't have access to capital, you cannot capitalize on your good decisions. Your track record means nothing. Your hard work means nothing. Your choices, your outcomes, your free will: curtailed. No consequences for failure, no rewards for success. That's equity. That's Marxism. And it's happening right in front of us while we're all blind to it.

While the internet made "money printer go brrr" memes, the commies already stole access to every means of production. We laughed at BRRRRR while they locked the doors to the capital markets and threw away the key. Small business owners with perfect credit, profitable operations, decades of history. Denied. Meanwhile, the government prints trillions for itself and its cronies without a second thought. As David Stockman, former Reagan budget director, put it: "the mad money-printers in the Eccles Building simply inflated the bejesus out of the US economy." The Fed is harmful. The question is whether its deliberate impoverishment of Americans rises to the level of economic terrorism.

The Fed's War on Savers

Ron Paul, whose book End the Fed debuted at number six on the New York Times Best Seller list, identified the core crime decades ago: "Nothing good can come from the Federal Reserve. It is the biggest taxer of them all. Diluting the value of the dollar by increasing its supply is a vicious, sinister tax on the poor and middle class." During the pandemic, the Fed printed $5 trillion and Americans got 9% inflation, the highest in 40 years. Their savings evaporated. Their purchasing power collapsed. Meanwhile, the government got unlimited funding for whatever it wanted.

ZeroHedge documented how "the rapid debasement of fiat currency has destroyed savings for the average person, forcing them into riskier assets like stocks in a desperate attempt to outpace inflation." The Fed's policy is explicit: punish anyone who saves, reward anyone who speculates, and ensure the government never faces fiscal discipline. As one analysis noted, "issuing debt and then printing money to buy that debt" has become "one of the primary ways this out-of-control spending is financed."

Central Bank "Independence" Is a Lie

The Fed claims independence, but its actions tell a different story. ZeroHedge reported that "the disappearance of 'higher for longer' in 2024 erased any doubt about the monetary authorities' lack of independence." When the government needs to refinance $28 trillion in debt over the next four years, does anyone believe the Fed will maintain tight policy? Of course not. As analysts have observed, "central banks will inject as much liquidity as needed to avoid a reckoning moment, especially for sovereign issuers."

The Fed cut rates 100 basis points heading into the 2024 election despite inflation remaining above target. Critics asked why "Jay Powell and his merry band of money-printers" insisted on cutting when "financial conditions were at their loosest in years, growth was allegedly robust, and employment was solid." The answer is obvious: the Fed serves the government, not the people. Its "independence" is theater.

A Growing Chorus Says: End the Fed

Peter Schiff, who correctly predicted the 2008 crisis including the bankruptcy of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, has been sounding the alarm from an Austrian economics perspective for years. Jim Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, has chronicled the Fed's failures exhaustively. Jim Rogers, the legendary investor, openly calls for abolishing the Fed and predicts its eventual demise.

Stockman argues that "there is not a shred of historical evidence or sound economic logic to justify the Fed's sacred 2.00% target." He notes that "this sheer monetary insanity is justified by the Fed on the grounds that inflation is good for prosperity." Every American watching their grocery bills double knows that's a lie.

Terrorism by Any Other Name

What do you call an organization that systematically destroys the wealth of millions of families? That forces retirees back to work because their savings became worthless? That transfers trillions from productive citizens to an unaccountable government? The Fed's policies have created, in ZeroHedge's words, trauma: "Inflation doesn't just erode wealth. It erodes trust. People sense they're working harder for less, savings vanishing into thin air."

The Fed printed money, Americans got poorer, and Jerome Powell told them it was "transitory." Now "everyone, from your Uber driver to your grandma" knows about "money printer go brrr." The Fed's "tools are blunt, its logic circular, and its credibility paper-thin."

Ron Paul understood that inflation is "a hidden tax making warfare much easier to wage. Because people will reject the notion of increasing direct taxes, inflation is then used to help service the overwhelming debts incurred through warfare, diminishing the purchasing power of the masses without their awareness." The Fed makes endless war and unlimited spending possible by hiding the cost from voters.

Designating the Federal Reserve a terrorist organization may sound extreme. But look at what the Fed actually does: systematically destroy savings, enable unlimited government expansion, crush the middle class, and lie about it the whole time. The label fits. The Federal Reserve is not your friend. It is an instrument of your impoverishment.