This leaked transcript of the Federal Reserve's VISA credit card account provides a treasure-trove of insight into the Fed's recent actions. Nothing reveals a person or institution quite so indelicately as a list of credit purchases.

VISA Credit Card Statement
Global Empire account

Minimum Payment Warning: If you make only the minimum payment each period, you will pay more interest and it will take you longer to pay off your balance.

Previous points balance: 1,200,010,000,000
Points earned on Central Planning/Intervention in Capital Markets: 1,200,000,000,000
Points earned on entertainment and everyday purchases: 10,000,000

Choose from travel, gift certificates, magazine subscriptions and Global Empire perquisites. To redeem your points, go to VISA.com/global.empire.accounts/.

10/30/10       JEKYLL ISLAND LODGE (Luxury suites)

10/30/10       HOLLOWEEN SPECIALTIES INC.
("Frightful Economists" package of masks: Friedman, Marx, Ricardo and Keynes)

10/30/10       TED's WOOD SUPPLY (one cordwood bonfire plus starter)

10/30/10       HOUSE OF EFFIGIES (one effigy of Ron Paul, flammable model)

11/5/10       U.S. TREASURY
(U.S. bonds, Mixed selection of maturities, POMO-ready package)

11/7/10       FANNIE MAE
(Junior tranches of defaulted mortgages, priced at nominal value)

11/7/10       CAPITAL PHARMACY (12 prescriptions of Hopium)

11/8/10       DEPAUL HOSPITAL
(Emergency room services, treatment of Hopium overdose)

11/9/10       HOUSE OF VOODOO
(one Ron Paul doll, 13 voodoo pins and book of incantations)

11/10/10       ORACLE BONES DIVINATION SERVICE
(one consultation on the global economy)

11/12/10       SWINDLE, BOOZ AND SYCOPHANT, PUBLIC RELATIONS
(one "Blame China" global media package)

11/12/10       K STREET SERVICES, LLC
(lease of 125 members of Congress, with option to purchase)

11/13/10       CONFLICT RESOLUTION COUNSELING, INC
(Irreconcilable Differences package, for groups of 12 or less)

11/15/10       NEW DAWN PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES
(continuing treatment of severe Napoleonic Complex, disassociation from financial realities syndrome and chronic stress)

11/16/10       AMAZON, INC.
--Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects
--Central Planning for Dummies (The Lenin Institute)
--Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook
-- The (Mis)behavior of Markets
--Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View
--Propaganda
--Buying Fortified Caribbean Enclaves (Elites Survival Press)

11/16/10       UNIVERSITY OF ORLANDO (Disneyland campus)
(PhD in Economics, 3-month online program)

11/17/10       CARIBBEAN ISLAND PROPERITES (Cayman islands)
(Private island with secure compound, communications and hardened bunker)

11/18/10       TEDDY BEARS ONLINE
(12 supersoft "I need a hug" toy bears, made in China)

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