Not Your Average Financial Podcast™

Not Your Average Financial Podcast™


Episode 422: The Bank World’s Final Boss: How to Actually End the Fed

October 03, 2025

In this episode, we ask:

  • Would you like to read and review our new book, The Business Fortress: How to Grow, Protect and Exit Your Business?
  • Would you like to give us feedback on the FREE! Not Your Average Financial Community?
  • How could the system be fixed?
  • When was the Federal Reserve started?
  • What happened in 1913?
  • What has happened since?
  • What happened in 2008?
  • What happened to the money supply during COVID from 2020-2022?
  • What about inflation?
  • What about compound interest?
  • Why have young couple delayed buying homes and having kids?
  • What about the booms and busts?
  • What are the mental and physical health issues tied to these issues?
  • Is this a rigged game?
  • Is this a matter of life and death?
  • How do we peg the dollar back to market rates and gold?
  • Can anyone swap dollars for gold?
  • Can we reduce electronic liabilities?
  • What about blockchain?
  • What about the FDIC?
  • What about bailouts?
  • What about better scrutiny?
  • What are the bank’s financials?
  • Who is holding true reserves?
  • What is fractional reserve banking?
  • What do most people NOT realize?
  • Is stable money ahead?
  • What are other economists saying?
  • What about Ludvig von Mises?
  • What do the bank’s panics look like now?
  • What did America use before 1913?
  • Why did they call it the Gilded Age?
  • What is self regulating?
  • What has gone up 50x?
  • How does this apply to personal action?
  • How do Bank on Yourself® type life insurance policies fit into this?
  • How about some case studies?
  • What about the distortion?
  • What about the dot com and the housing bubbles?
  • What did the later audits reveal?
  • Does a gold standard eliminate this?
  • Does arbitrage correct it?
  • What would keep prices stable?
  • What is a hidden tax on the poorest among us?
  • What about the Fed’s role in 1929?
  • What happened in 1971?
  • What happened to the currency in Turkey?
  • What could work?
  • What happens as the treasuries mature?
  • What’s the cultural impact?
  • What are the takeaways?