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                                accounts” to a minimum of three percent (3%) to a maximum of (14%)
                                percent. Institutions Deregulation And Monetary Control Act of 1980,
                                Section 103[b][E][2].



                                                                 And you thought it was money



                                   “In the United States neither paper currency nor deposits have value
                                as commodities. Intrinsically, a dollar bill is just a piece of paper. Deposits
                                are merely book entries. Coins do have some intrinsic value as metal, but
                                generally far less than their face amount...
                                   “In the absence of legal reserve requirements, banks can build up deposits
                                by increasing loans and investments so long as they keep enough currency on
                                hand to redeem whatever amounts the holders of deposits want to convert
                                into currency. This unique attribute of the banking business was discovered
                                several centuries ago. At one time, bankers were merely middlemen. They
                                made profit by accepting gold and coins brought to them for safekeeping and
                                lending them to borrowers. But they soon found that the receipts they issued
                                to depositors were being used as money since whoever held them could go to
                                the banker and exchange them for metallic money.
                                   “Then bankers discovered that they could make loans merely by giving
                                borrowers their promise to pay (bank notes). In this way, banks began to
                                create money. More notes could be issued than the gold and coin on hand
                                because only a portion of the notes outstanding would be presented for
                                payment at any one time. Enough metallic money had to be kept on hand, of
                                course, to redeem whatever volume of notes was presented for payment.
                                   “Transaction deposits are the modern counter-part of bank notes. It
                                was a small step from printing notes to making book entries to the credit
                                of borrowers which the borrowers, in turn, could ‘spend’ by writing checks,
                                thereby, ‘printing their own money.’” – Modern Money Mechanics, A Workbook
                                on Deposits, Currency and Bank Reserves, 1982 Rev. Ed., Federal Reserve Bank
                                of Chicago, P.O. box 834, Chicago, Illinois 60609, pages 3 and 4.)



                                           An Old Cold War rages against the American people


                                   Eighty-six years is in no way “temporary.” It’s a permanent state of
                                “emergency” and was clearly instituted, formed, and engineered within
                                the Union for the sole purpose of creating a constitutional dictatorship, all
                                accomplished through gross usurpation and breach of legal duties and through
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