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,” at a hearing of the senate budget committee, independent-socialist senator Bernie Sanders, of the independent state of vermont, asks Benjamin S. “Helicopter Ben” Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (a Federal agency) that oversees the privately owned Federal Reserve System of (central) Banks, “Will you tell the American people to whom you lent 2,200,000,000,000 of their dollars?”  To which Bernanke answers, “No.”

       [added 10/10/2021] Thanks to Jim Lorenz for this entry.