A pine cone covered in ice after an ice storm. Male cones of a pine A classic example of a Lebanese Cedar cone. Immature female pine cone Pollen cone of a Japanese Larch Pineapple gall on Sitka Spruce caused by Adelges abietis. Dozens of male cones (orange and flower-like) occur in a cluster; the female cone is still immature (olive green). Lodgepole Pine.
The Federal Reserve System fulfills its public mission as an independent entity within government. It is not owned by anyone and is not a private, profit-making institution.
Alan Greenspan. From 1987 until 2006, Alan Greenspan was the chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Board, which oversees the Federal Reserve Bank, a private corporation chartered in 1913 by Congress and President Woodrow Wilson to service the nation's banks.