"Thus Congress, the Treasury, and the Federal Reserve, are the
fountain heads of your money and moneyism; your banks, its multiplex
reproduction incubators, and foster parents reproducing it with
lightning rapidity, through interest, compound interest, dividends,
bonuses, premiums, commissions, dues, rents, and profits. Your
commercial and investment banks and your trust companies receive,
pay out, finance foreign credits, underwrite and distribute new
securities, and buy government and state bonds. There are more than
14,855 establishments, with arteries in more than 20,000 large business
savings and investments. National and state banks and trust companies
are located in all your large and small cities. Many of them are
members of the Federal Reserve Banks. Your 300 large life insurance
companies and all other lesser ones, your great number of private
bankers, your financial investment, loan, and mortgage companies,
your pawn and stock brokers, and your many other financiers control
the loans of money. They loan it on stocks, bonds, notes, commercial
paper, collateral securities, on contracts of future deliveries of
all staple commodities, imports, exports, real estate mortgages; to
nearly all of your industrial, commercial houses and utility companies,
transportation, shipping, your farms, your business, your home, your
furniture, your food, your automobiles, trucks, your jewelry, your
clothes, your tools, your wages, and anything you possess of value.
Even on your false teeth. That money loaned to you is derived from your
savings, dues, and premiums.
"Bonus and other charges and loans to you are as high as the companies
can get. Some of them ask the highest usurious rates allowed by your
different legal state rates, and other charges are added--as much as
they can milk out of you. Note that:
"The civic agencies conducting the Dallas, Texas loan shark fight
found that interest as high as 1,131.4%, over 3% per day, was charged
gullible victims. The lowest interest rate was 120% per annum, and the
average 271.68%."[25]
"Money circulation and interest are the most expensive operations in
your moneyism. Mr. Norman Angell in his book _Story of Money_ calls it
'Velocity Circulation.'[26] Money travels rapidly from hand to hand,
from one pocketbook to another, from bank to bank, to borrower or
drawer, in constant circulation.
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