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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 171575, member: 3011&quot;]I would add that the Federal Reserve also receives no funding from taxpayers.&nbsp; FRS member banks receive a 6% annual return on their investment in the Fed, and the balance of the profits are returned to the Treasury.&nbsp; Significant profits for the Fed come from currency transactions with foreign central banks, so I don&#039;t believe it is correct to assert that it doesn&#039;t matter what the Treasury charges the Fed because a lot of the cost is passed on to other countries buying our currency.&nbsp; I believe I read someplace that requests for currency from foreign central banks now exceeds requests from domestic banks, so it is probably more than 50%.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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