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on Twitter that I had to watch this new documentary by Frontline, The Power of the Fed. And so I finally

got around to watching it this morning. And you know, before I watched it, my expectations

were not that high. After all, it's PBS, public broadcasting, right, a government entity. So the

bar was set pretty low in my mind. Even though a lot of people had told me, hey, this is really good,

they really exposed the Fed and they're very critical. The Fed, you know, I really wanted to see it

for myself before I reached any conclusions. So I watched the documentary. And you know what?

As low as I set the bar, I didn't set it low enough because they didn't even meet my low expectations.

I did not think this documentary did a good job at all of exposing the Fed. In fact, I don't even

think it was really a documentary. I think it was more of a propaganda piece than a legitimate

investigatory news story. First of all, the host, a correspondent, was a guy by the name of James

Jacobi. And so he's the guy that narrates this and does all of the interviews. And from my

perspective, what I really think the agenda was behind this supposed documentary was not so much

to say, hey, the Fed is a bad actor. The Fed is responsible for these problems. It was really to

say that the Fed is using its power incorrectly, that the Fed is concentrating its powers on the

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