Unlike most deadtree reviewers, I liked Mad Money–the movie, that is, not the tv show by that crazed inflationist. It stars the charming Dianne Keaton, Queen Latifah, and Katie Holmes as cleaning ladies who rob the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. In this fantasy, they figure out a way to take worn paper money that is about to be shredded. And no one watching it will feel any sympathy for the Fed; nor will anyone feel a real crime is being commited, and it isn’t, since the counterfeiter has no right to his ill-gotten gains. Spending the worn cash is another matter, of course, as it imitates on a tiny scale what the Fed does, and dilutes the value of other people’s money. And btw, the closing titles deserve an Oscar.
The Federal Reserve has put us into another economic pickle, and we need popular culture on our side. May this be only the first of a string of anti-Fed movies.
9:53 am on January 21, 2008 Email Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
