Ben Swann <br />http://benswann.com/ <br /> Published on Dec 19, 2013 <br /> <br />100 years ago, this December, the United States Congress created a central bank today, we know it as the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States. What most people don't know is that the bank isn't a federal entity and candidly, it really has nothing in reserves. <br />Is the Federal Reserve good for the United States? Is it even possible to get rid of it? <br />The first step toward truth is to be informed. <br /> <br />Ben Swann Bio <br />http://benswann.com/ <br /> <br />I have spent 14 years working as a journalist in broadcast news. I won’t bore you with all the details but suffice to say I began my career as a news photographer and moved up the ladder to reporter, morning anchor/reporter, prime time anchor/reporter. Along the way I won two Emmy Awards and two Edward R. Murrow awards. For a number of years I covered Mexico’s drug war. At that time, I realized that national media was not interested in the truth of what was happening in Mexico or the problems associated with the failed “war on drugs” in the United States. <br /> <br />Read more: http://benswann.com/ben-swann-bio/#ixzz2nxEaBvIr <br />Follow us: @BenSwann_ on Twitter
