Brad Thor Tackles the FED

Brad Thor's "Hidden Order."

Brad Thor’s “Hidden Order.”

By the time I finished Brad Thor’s new action novel, I thought I had attended a meeting for Congressman Ron Paul.

Remember his campaign for an audit of the Federal Reserve Bank?

Well, the FED described in Thor’s book “Hidden Order” deserves more than an audit.

I won’t ruin the “thriller” (and that’s what it says on the cover right above the title), but woven in the book is most of the criticisms made of the Central Bank.

Near the end of the story is this view of the future:

“The world economy is crumbling. Something very, very dark is on the horizon. The chaos and anarchy the United States will face is like nothing history has ever seen. It’s going to be beyond biblical,” he said. pausing for a moment before adding. “The storm’s coming and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop it. I just want a seat on the Ark.”

Thor also worked in his disdain for gun control wonder if crime in Washington, D.C., would be as bad if it did not have gun control for law-abiding citizens.

It doesn’t take summer to have my nose in a book, by the way.


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Brad Thor Tackles the FED — 4 Comments

  1. The FED is single largest fraud ever perpetrated against America (as well as other countries).

  2. I have four of Brad Thor’s books waiting to be read.

    I just finished his “Black List” which obviously the hit t.v. show is based on(although loosely).

    What a writer!

    It always appears as if he has insider knowledge of the inner workings and machinations of the federal government.

    Ronda of Huntley

  3. His audit the fed bill was approved of by every single Republican member of the House of Representatives and about half of the Democrats.

    Harry Reid didn’t allow it to come up for a vote in the Senate.

    If anybody thinks the Speaker is the only problem in Washington, they aren’t paying attention.

    Keep in mind that this wasn’t a bill that would have dissolved the Federal Reserve; it was just going to AUDIT them.

    I’m not sure why that was controversial for Reid.

    Don’t we have a right to good and accountable government?

    Did he oppose it simply because it came out of the Republican controlled House?

    Is he that petty?

    Or was he hiding something?

    I wish the issue of central banks was debated.

    Up until 1913, central banks came and went.

    We approved charters, sometimes we’d renew them, and sometimes we didn’t.

    For the last 100 years it has just been a given.

    We ought to have a debate where we consider the pros and cons of having and not having a central bank and whether the central bank should be government run or privately run.

    Look at the amount of time between recessions and the severity of recessions with and without central banks.

    Is the economy any more stable with a central bank?

    There should be a real debate.

    According to Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution, it is Congress that has the power “To borrow money on the credit of the United States;” and “To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;”. Congress has outsourced one of its very few Expressed Powers.

    The entire anti-fed movement is kind of a wonky niche (which has been growing thanks to Ron Paul), but they’re unfortunately derided as some kind of mustache twisting villains from the 19th century.

    It’s a shame that people who actually know what they are talking about are just told to sit down and shut up.

  4. Reading Hidden Order made me wonder just what did happen to “Audit the Fed” by Rand Paul and his father Ron.

    It was much in the news but seems to have disappeared.

    This gives an interesting history of the Fed’s origins.

    I will have to check more on the Federal Reserve.

    A timely novel

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