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Spitzer: Federal Reserve is 'a Ponzi scheme, an inside job'
The Federal Reserve–the quasi-autonomous body that controls the US's money supply–is a "Ponzi scheme" that created "bubble after bubble" in the US economy and needs to be held accountable for its actions, says Eliot Spitzer, the former governor and attorney-general of New York.
In a wide-ranging discussion of the bank bailouts on MSNBC's Morning Meeting, host Dylan Ratigan described the process by which the Federal Reserve exchanged $13.9 trillion of bad bank debt for cash that it gave to the struggling banks.
Spitzer–who built a reputation as "the Sheriff of Wall Street" for his zealous prosecutions of corporate crime as New York's attorney-general and then resigned as the state's governor over revelations he had paid for prostitutes–seemed to agree with Ratigan that the bank bailout amounts to "America's greatest theft and cover-up ever."