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Basically by having an independent Central Bank, a country's people surrender their democratic power to determine monetary policy in favor of a cabal of bankers. The idea that the FED or any other "Central Bank" is an independent arbiter of money stuff in an angelical cloud is one of the most naive illusions they ever sold people.

The only thing an independent central bank is independent from, is from the democratic will.




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