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The Jekyll Island Club members who went duck hunting in Georgia

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In November 1910, six men – Nelson Aldrich, A. Piatt Andrew, Henry Davison, Arthur Shelton, Frank Vanderlip and Paul Warburg â€“ met at the Jekyll Island Club, off the coast of Georgia, to write a plan to reform the nation’s banking system. The meeting and its purpose were closely guarded secrets, and participants did not admit that the meeting occurred until the 1930s. But the plan written on Jekyll Island laid a foundation for what would eventually be the Federal Reserve System.

Theoretically, the above statement is correct and true... but the intent behind that meeting is not nearly as black and white nor as simple or well-intended as it would read on the surface.  That meeting on Jekyll Island started when Alexander Hamilton initially proposed the resolution to establish a national debt and the creation of a New Central Banking institution to create, monitor and implement the monetary policy of the United States.  The reason these men had to meet in 1910, is up until that point, every attempt to implement a Central banking institution has failed due to the mistrust Americans in general placed in such centralized power structures when it came to banking.  Every attempt to that point has failed, but all that was about to change in 1913.  The birth of the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States of America - a private banking cartel that to this day controls the nation's monetary supply and writes the laws that govern how currency works in America.  

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"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws!"
Attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild but highly doubtful he actually spoke these words, since the quote did not get attributed to him until supposedly 1838 - by which time he would have been dead for 26 years.  But somebody DID say it... 

The Origins of the Federal Reserve system in the United States

Conspiratorial minded people might look at the history of banking in the United States, starting with the indebtedness of the Continental Congress and later on the fledgling new nation and draw the observation that because banking on the European continent, by the time of the US Revolution took place, was well established and firmly centered around the idea of Centralized Banking, clashed with the nation's ideals of freedom from indebtedness and freedom from the idea of a controlled monetary policy.  This clash, according to the bankers in France and the Netherlands, would not be permitted to turn against them because if they were to allow a new nation to run roughshod over their banking practices, well, there is no telling who might get the idea next to do the same and then there goes their power base!  What sort of a world would it be if every Tom, Dick and United States were permitted to just willy nilly determine their own fiscal policies.  So they organized and they schemed and despite the little hiccup in the road called the French revolution of 1789, the European banking cartels, through their friends in the US decided to take matters into their own hands.  But rather than bringing the origins of this all up, going back to the first days of the new nation, which I discussed on the section regarding the battle between Alexander Hamilton and those who opposed the creation of a new national debt, I'd like to discuss the various methods, panics and other instances bankers, first Europeans, later on Americans, used to keep pushing the United States closer and closer to the point of having a central banking system that came to fruition in 1913 with the establishment of the Federal Reserve System.  

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