The "Federal" Reserve – in the usual air-finger-quotes, to emphasize the maliciously disingenuous verbiage, the "Fed" being a conglomeration of private banks that controls the federal government and so, practically everything else, via the issuing of money it creates out of nothing that it loans at interest to the federal government – has up to now been a kind of background evil. Few knew about or understood its machinations – its manipulations – because few had any direct dealings with it.

It was just, you know, the "Fed."

That is about  to change.

Come July, the Fed will involve itself directly in the affairs of Americans, via Fed Now – a chirpily named etiolation of the "Fed's" manipulation of the nation's money supply. The object now isn't manipulation as much as it is habituation.

To "federal" control over what you are allowed to buy and sell with the digital money it controls. FedNow is the Beta version of what is meant to become the Fed's Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). It is just a matter of getting people used to it. As they got used to wearing Face Diapers. To being fondled as a condition of travel. To election months rather than election day. And so many other such things. All in good time, my pretty, the wicked witch says.