Ask the Senate to vote on an amendment to audit the Federal Reserve
OPS_admin | May 01, 2010 | Comments 0
Sign our letter to the Senate:
“It’s time to end the secrecy surrounding the Federal Reserve and bring greater accountability to our financial system.
I join the bipartisan group of Senators Bernie Sanders, Russ Feingold, Ron Wyden, Chuck Grassley, Jim DeMint and Sam Brownback, as well as Reps. Alan Grayson and Ron Paul, in calling for an audit of the Federal Reserve to make public the recipients of over $2 trillion in bailouts during the financial crisis.”
The Federal Reserve, the central bank for the United States, spent more than $2 trillion in secret bailouts for big banks during the financial crisis.
Problem is, it’s refusing to give any details about how it spent that huge sum of money.
If we can audit the Fed, we can find out how it propped up which big banks, bringing accountability to our financial system.
Auditing the Fed could restore the public’s trust in our financial system, and help us avoid another mismanaged disaster from occurring. With your help, we can end the historic secrecy surrounding the Fed.
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