$186 BILLION SCANDAL: The Fed’s Dark Secrets Are Draining America Dry — And Rand Paul Just Lit the Fuse

They’re Not Just Incompetent — They’re Criminal The Federal Reserve is the beating heart of the banking cartel. It's not federal. It has no reserves. And now, it’s hemorrhaging taxpayer wealth to the tune of $186 billion a year, enriching the very same banks that crashed the economy in 2008, that funded globalization, and that propped up the political elite while working Americans lost their homes, savings, and hope. Senator Rand Paul just called them out. And he’s right — dead right. The Fed’s payments to banks have exploded from $5 billion to $186 billion. What’s changed? The interest rate on reserves — an obscure trick that lets the Fed quietly funnel YOUR MONEY to the banks for doing nothing.…