Lives in US, assumes everyone else does. Your laws mean fuck all outside America, google it!
I love when people talk about
The Government as if it meant something.
Even within an individual country various governments can be conflicting. Cannabis may be decriminalized in several US states but that doesn't mean that the feds can't charge people.
Governments are just a bunch of goofy politicians and civil servants. It's interpretation by the courts that really matters.
For small time things ( like cannabis law ) you are right.
But for big things, like monetary policy, even national governments are only a subset of the complete organisation.
Governments have to follow the designated path for monetary policy, or else suffer the fate of JFK, he was shot shortly before announcing a move that would be to the detriment of the federal reserve bank, not a conspiracy theory, publicly available facts.
I assume many speak of "the government" as being the highest level of political organisation, but governments do answer to higher entities. Hence some speak of "the powers that be" or "the system" etc.
The FED has nothing to do with the US government really, it is a completely private commercial entity that charges the government ( via citizen taxation ) for its operation.
Can you provide a link to the public available facts thing you mentioned (or just tell me what to google)?