Mario Draghi, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) became president of the European Central Bank November 1, 2011 and is expected to continue the policies of the bank, which have focused mostly on controlling price inflation and not on the bigger Eurozone crisis. He has used the same kind of double-speak practiced by such American Federal Reserve leaders as Alan Greenspan.

Creation of the Department of Homeland Security, following the attacks of September 11, 2001, developed a vast domestic, "anti-terror" infrastructure that has been put into place in the US, expanding its tentacles into every corner of citizens' private lives. Many of the ideas DHS considers anti-American and labelled as terrorist ironically include concepts under which the US was founded and have to do with individual liberty, sound money and freedom to live and work as they choose.