I’m sure you remember the mortgage meltdown of 2008 and the crazy aftermath. More than $1 trillion of your taxes went to bailout these so-called “Too-Big-To-Fail” banks. Because of that whole banking disaster, in 2010 President Barack Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Act, also known as the “Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.”…

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[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row custom_margin=”-40px|||” _builder_version=”3.2.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.2.2″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_line_height=”2em” custom_margin=”|||” custom_padding=”||0px|”] For most Americans, the thought of the government seizing the assets of an entire bank, closing it for weeks, and then paying law-abiding depositors 50 cents on the dollar and confiscating the rest is unthinkable. It isn’t.…

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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.2.2″ custom_margin=”-40px|||” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|desktop” text_font=”||||||||”] The government is going to break a promise to somebody. It’s just a matter of time. Consider: The U.S. Government has been running up debt like sailors on their first shore leave. Chart: U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.      …

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