Lev Menand
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1,295 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jul
Lev Menand’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's not part of the government.
The government originally subscribed to 20% of the shares but then sold them.
It was a private commercial bank.
It's just a misapplication of the Second Amendment Rahimi analysis.
In the Rahimi analysis, you're looking for a restriction on gun rights that existed at the founding and trying to have an analog.
There was no restriction as reflected in the Bank of the United States on the president's removal power over executive officers.
Alexander Hamilton didn't want a government bank.
And in his report on a national bank, he says a government bank is a bad idea.
We need an investor-owned bank.
And so they're just they're misreading Hamilton.
They're already saying it.
So there are people saying that.
Here's the tricky situation.
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors, which is the seven-member, multi-member commission that Congress created in 1913, which is a government body whose officers are principal officers of the United States who have limits on their removal that the president, the court has now said has to respect, that body is not a bank.
It has no balance sheet.
It can make no loans.
It does have a balance sheet.
It does not have what we think of as the Fed's balance sheet.
It can make no loans.
It is a government agency.
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