The REAL Issues with Jerome Powell and the Fed | Guests: Goldie Ghamari & Renzo Castillo | 1/12/26

What It Covers

Glenn Beck examines Trump's confrontation with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell over a billion-dollar building renovation, explaining the Fed's private structure, inflation mechanisms, and how progressive-era reforms created unaccountable financial control over American citizens' purchasing power and economic freedom.

Key Questions Answered

• •Federal Reserve Structure: The Fed operates as a private corporation owned by member banks, not a government agency, with complete opacity—no public audits, self-selected leadership nominees, and immunity from presidential firing. Citizens cannot examine their books despite funding their operations, including a billion-dollar palace renovation cost overrun.
• •Inflation as Policy: The Federal Reserve deliberately targets two percent annual inflation, meaning every dollar loses two cents of value yearly by design. Since 2010, a ten-dollar bill has lost approximately three dollars in purchasing power, dropping to seven dollars in real value—this wealth transfer is intentional policy, not economic accident.
• •Progressive Power Consolidation: Between 1910-1920, progressives systematically dismantled constitutional checks by changing Senate elections from state-appointed to popular vote, expanding administrative state bureaucracies, establishing case law over constitutional interpretation, and creating the Federal Reserve—concentrating control over health and money to control populations completely.
• •Jekyll Island Origins: In secret 1910 meetings on Jekyll Island, bankers and senators designed the Federal Reserve under assumed names without press or public record. They created a hybrid creature—publicly appearing governmental but privately owned and shielded from accountability—giving unelected bodies power to create money, set interest rates, and control economic liquidity.
• •Bank Monopoly Control: After 2008's "too big to fail" crisis, banks grew larger instead of smaller, consolidating power. The Federal Reserve, composed of these same large banks, decides interest rates affecting business loans, home affordability, and whether savings are rewarded or punished—functioning as legalized collusion that free markets would otherwise prohibit.