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THE EMPIRE OF THE CITY; 130 YEARS OF POWER POLITICS by E.C.Knuth

TRAGEDY AND HOPE, A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN OUR TIME by Dr. Carroll Quigley

HOW THE WORLD REALLY WORKS by Alan B. Jones

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bring it on... I got an MBa and MIS from Penn and I'm starting a PHD in Econ next year also through Penn. I FUCKING KNOW MONEY!

ITS A BANK! IT ISSUES PAPER CURRENCY AND REGULATES IT THROUGH THE USE OF INTEREST RATES AMONG MEMBER BANKS WHICH IN TURN ISSUE INTEREST RATES EVERY QUARTER TO THERE DISTRICT MEMBER BANKS WHICH ARE THE BANKS THAT U AND I USE THAT INTURN CHARGE US AN INTEREST RATE THAT INCLUDES THE INITIAL RATES SET BY THE FED. WHICH IS A PRIVATE CORPORATION / BANK / LENDING INSTITUTION.

THE POINT BEING, WE DO NOT CONTROL OUR OWN CURRECNY PRIVATE STOCKHOLDERS TO A CORPORATION DO!
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Some very interesting related qoutes.....]

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks...will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. -Thomas Jefferson

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance. -James Madison

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations. -Andrew Jackson

The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. -Abraham Lincoln