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Are Banksters & the Fed Becoming the Fourth Branch of Our Government?

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    Goldman Sachs:   $814 billion ($814,000,000,000)

    Royal Bank of Scotland (UK) :   $541 billion ($541,000,000,000)

    JP Morgan Chase:   $391 billion ($391,000,000,000)

    Deutsche Bank (Germany):   $354 billion ($354,000,000,000)

    UBS (Switzerland):   $287 billion ($287,000,000,000)

     Credit Suisse (Switzerland):   $262 billion ($262,000,000,000)

    Lehman Brothers:   $183 billion ($183,000,000,000)

    Bank of Scotland (United Kingdom):   $181 billion ($181,000,000,000)

    BNP Paribas (France):   $175 billion ($175,000,000,000)

 

.   .   and many more, including banks in Belgium of all places.

 

Other economists estimate that bankster theft and the financial gangbanging of dollar holders since 2008 amounts to a $29 trillion loss (for dollar holders).

 

That's right, the largest banks, many of which appear to own shares in the private Federal Reserve, bailed themselves out by an amount that is in excess of the U.S. 2010 GDP ($14.59 Trillion, which is the value of all goods and services produced in the U.S. for the year).   Even America's national debt of $15.7 trillion dollars could have been paid-off for less than what the banksters stole.

 

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