While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (a Federal agency) that oversees the privately owned Federal Reserve System of (central) Banks–ostensibly an advocate of the free-market–says in an interview with the Financial Times that “It may be necessary to temporarily nationalize some banks in order to facilitate a swift and orderly restructuring.  I understand that once in a hundred years this is what you do.

       [added 9/28/2021] Thanks to G. Edward Griffin and Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.