Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, discusses the crime of the Fed's "bailout" of the big financial institutions and the cronyism between the two, the problems with our fractional reserve system, the destructive consequences of a close state-private business relationship, the perils of inflation on society, the possibility of a catastrophic global dollar sell-off, how our trade deficit is a symptom of the federal budget deficit whereby we flood China with extra...