Are governments just for show?
I'm not sure I understand the question. Governments DO control all the central banks in the world.
the undertaking is the flexibility for a significant financial company to loan money to a central authority at interest. i'm pondering reinstating Kennedy's government Order 11110. His father Joe become a financial company president at age 26. The Kennedy kinfolk truly understood banking and that i think of Kennedy knew what the heck he become doing while he signed that government Order. and that i think of this is the British bankers that run the Federal Reserve financial company and are destroying our u . s . a . by using financial skill.
Your question is flawed because, exactly as SDD said, central banks are parts of the government. That is true in the U.S. and in other countries as well (only exception being, the EU central bank is part of the EU rather than part of an individual country). If you disagree you are sadly mistaken. I know some people desperately want to believe the Federal Reserve is private and part of a mysterious cabal, but it's not. It's a government agency created by Congress and answerable to Congress.
Only the FED and ECB are supposed to be free and independent. But in the US, the Treasury is the sole agent which can print the money. The rest central banks in the world are controlled by the government and politicians, even the bank of Japan. Most of the central bank governors are nominated by the government. So first answer, people cannot own a central bank. Second, central banks have no real power. It is subject to the politicians.
Yes. Ask a central banker this question and if they are honest they will say the same. For example, one former Governor of the Bank of England said - Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and, with a flick of the pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again Take this great power away from them and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in But, if you want to be the slaves of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit. Sir Josiah Stamp (Governor of the Bank of England in the 1920s) The international banker Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who had enormous influence over the Bank of England in the 19th Century said something very similar - Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws. If anything the power of central banks has grown over the years, as money is no longer backed by anything of value. Also, many central banks are privately run enterprises, not run for the common good (not that they do anything good).
