"In the stirring speech that won him the Democratic presidential nomination in 1896, William Jennings Bryan insisted: "[We] believe that the right to coin money and issue money is a function of government. . . . Those who are opposed to this proposition tell us that the issue of paper money is a function of the bank and that the government ought to go out of the banking business. I stand with Jefferson . . . and tell them, as he did, that the issue of money is a function of the government and that the banks should go out of the governing business...He concluded with this famous outcry against the restrictive gold standard: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns..." Source: http://www.globalresearch.ca
We call on congress to make the FRB a public utility!