The Forgotten Depression of 1920
[This article was first published in the Fall 2009 issue of The Intercollegiate Review.] It is a cliché that if we do not study the …
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The Federal Reserve Act Gets Snuck Through Senate with Opposing Senators on Christmas Holiday
In his book The Creature from Jekkyl Island, G. Edward Griffin says that it was Edward Mandell House who on behalf of Wall Street, lobbied …
A Group of International Bankers Leave NJ Railroad Station for Jekyll Island to Plan the Takeover of the American Banking System with the Federal Reserve Act
On the night of November 22, 1910, a group of newspaper reporters stood disconsolately in the railway station at Hoboken, New Jersey. They had just …
The JP Morgan led Bank Panic of 1907: A Financial Coup to Trick the Government and People that a Central Bank was Necessary
The mother of all insider trades was pulled off in 1815, when London financier Nathan Rothschild led British investors to believe that the Duke of …
The Panic of 1893: Boosting Bankers’ Money and Power
The “opportunity,” referred to later by historians as the Panic of 1893, had its roots in Argentina. In the early 1890s, British investors became enamored …
U.S. President James Garfield is Shot by an Assassin
One bullet grazed his elbow, but a second lodged in the back of President James Garfield, who was shot July 2, 1881, as he waited …
The Communist Manifesto, Written by Karl Marx with the Assistance of Friedrich Engels, is Published in London by the Communist League
Karl Marx, completes “The Communist Manifesto.” He not only advocates economic and political changes; he advocates moral and spiritual changes as well. He believes the …
John C Calhoun Quote on ‘the Many and Powerful Interests, Combined in One Mass’ that had ‘Risen Up in the Government Greater than the People Themselves’
John C. Calhoun, in a speech on 5/27/1836 said: “A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many …
Slavery Abolition Act: Slavery Abolished in the British Empire
On 3 August 1835, somewhere in the City of London, two of Europe’s most famous bankers came to an agreement with the chancellor of the …
Andrew Jackson: “The Bank of the United States… Prevent(s)…Political Institutions from Securing the Freedoms of the Citizen”
President Andrew Jackson had Secretary Taney read a statement to the Cabinet that Jackson and Taney had prepared on why the deposits should be removed, …