YOUR MONEY IS NOT SAFE IN THE BIG BANKS
​by ​Ellen Brown  ​                          Aug 30, 2013
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"Those who can give up essential liberty to obtain  a little    temporary safety, deserve neither liberty, nor safety"
Benjamin   Franklin

 In a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke dated June 27, 2013, US Representative Alan Grayson and three co-signers expressed concern about the expansion of large banks into what have traditionally been non-financial commercial spheres.
                        ​Specifically:
                        [W]e are concerned about how large banks have recently expanded their businesses into such fields as electric power production, oil refining and distribution, owning and operating of public assets such as ports and airports, and even uranium mining.
                        After listing some disturbing examples, they observed:
                        According to legal scholar Saule Omarova, over the past five years, there has been a “quiet transformation of U.S. financial holding companies.” These financial services companies have become global merchants that seek to extract rent from any commercial or financial business activity within their reach.  They have used legal authority in Graham-Leach-Bliley to subvert the “foundational principle of separation of banking from commerce”. . . .

                        ​​It seems like there is a significant macro-economic risk in having a massive entity like, say JP Morgan, both issuing credit cards and mortgages, managing municipal bond offerings, selling gasoline and......                           Read more