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72Federal 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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64The Day the Bubble Burst: A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929
Written by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witt, this is one of the best book ever written on 1929 Stock Market Crash. Unlike historian books which would use classical archives, the two authors have researched...
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73Economics Timeline
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66John Law the financial genious crook, responsible for the Mississipi Scheme and the Fiat Money based on Credit
John Law (1671 - 1729), born in a scottish banking family, was an adventurer, gambler and financial genius Crook. After the death of his rich father, he became addicted to gambling losing most of the...
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75Colonel 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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62First Bank of the United States: the first US Central Bank
The First Bank of the United States was needed because the government had a debt from the Revolutionary War, and each state had a different form of currency. It was built while Philadelphia was still the...
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68Nelson Aldrich: the Rockefeller's Middle Man who crafted the Income Tax and the Central Federal Reserve System
"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 "You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe...
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63Harry Dexter White: the man behind Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the IMF was a Soviet Spy
Harry Dexter White (1892 – 1948) was an American economist and senior U.S. Treasury department official. He was a primary mover behind the Bretton Woods Conference, the formations of the World Bank and...
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59[Must-See Video] King Henri I vs the Money Changers and the origin of Plutocracy
If you want to understand why we have today a system of Plutocracy (degree of high economics inequality and low social mobility), study history but as it is difficult by yourself this video is an excellent...
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66The Conquest of Poverty by Gerald Grattan McGeer 1935
Table of Contents Conquest of Poverty Foreword I. Democracy or Money Power II. Money is Economic Power III. War and Usury IV. Signs of Emancipation V. ...
