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72Economical and Financial Jokes
A chemist, an engineer and an economist are stranded on a deserted island. They carry with them some canned food but have no ordinary means of opening the cans. The chemist suggests gathering some wood and...
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66Kennedy Executive Order 11110
On June 4, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order No. 11110 [see transcript below] that returned to the U.S. government the power to issue currency, without going through the Federal...
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68The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank and the Bank of England paid for the hostages in Iran according to the book Revelation$
Yesterday, I received a strange comment on one of my hubpage from a woman asking for help about her father who had been vice-president of Chase Manhattan Bank and had died mysteriously in 1998. I advised her...
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70What the word Voluntary means for the IRS
"There are two distinct classes of men...those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes." -- Thomas Paine (1737–1809), pamphleteer and revolutionary On Merriam Webster online...
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74Colonel House - CFR founder, promoter of the League of Nations and President Wilson most influencial advisor
"Mr. House is my second personality. He is my independent self. His thoughts and mine are one." — President Woodrow Wilson quoted by Charles Seymour, The Intimate Papers of Colonel House,...
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68Federal Reserve Act: the most Influential Act in US/World History since the Constitution
"In his final Senate years, Aldrich chaired the National Monetary Commission. His Aldrich Plan, providing for flexible cash reserves, was the forerunner of the Federal Reserve System." -- Senate.gov "This...
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46Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, scored more than $8.5 million from Penguin Press
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, scored more than $8.5 million from Penguin Press.It is to be in U.S. stores by mid to late 2007. Major publishers are set to bid on the memoir of former...
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67Milton Friedman on the Central Federal Reserve Bank
“The Federal Reserve definitely caused the Great Depression by contracting the amount of money in circulation by one-third from 1929 to 1933.” -- Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize winning economist,...
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39Quote of the day: on "Bankenstein"
From Sir Josiah Stamp, Director of the Bank of England in the 1920's, the second richest man in Britain at that time: "The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the...
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58Why Democracy doesn't really matter as long as the People stay ignorant on One Single Issue
I've made my education in two engineering schools in France. I had the chance to get a deep financial education in the second one. Nevertheless it was a classical one and I was never told at school the real...
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