‚You mean, JPMorgan took the feds‘ money and now is showing huge profits because it is just lending money back to the people they got it from?‘

Quelle: Is the Real Economy Growing, Expanding, and Making Money?

Geld vom Staat leihen, um es ihm gleich wieder zurückzuleihen? Tönt fast wie im vorrevolutionären Frankreich:

„[…] what they [independent financiers] often did with it in practice was to lend it to the government in short-term credits — so that the king found himself borrowing and paying interest on his own money.“

Quelle: Doyle, William: Origins of the French Revolution, Oxford, 3rd ed., 1999, S. 51.

Was 1789 folgte, haben wir alle in der Grundschule gelernt …