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May 29, 2013 · Jekyll Island, the Truth Behind the Federal Reserve: Directed by William T. Still. With William T. Still, Josh Petersdorf, Elizabeth Still, Patrick Collins. This film is about the greatest rip-off in history - the very way money and debt are created and controlled.
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At the time, the men who met on Jekyll Island believed the banking system suffered from serious problems. The Jekyll Island participants’ views on this issue are well known, since before and after their conclave several spoke publicly and others published extensively on the topic. Collectively, they encapsulated their concerns in the plan they wrot...
By the fall of 1910, Aldrich was persuaded of the necessity of a central bank for the United States. With Congress ready to begin meeting in just a few weeks, Aldrich -- most likely at Davison’s suggestion -- decided to convene a small group to help him synthesize all he had learned and write down a proposal to establish a central bank. The group i...
Aldrich and his colleagues quickly realized that while they agreed on some broad principles -- establishing an elastic currency supplied by a bank that held the reserves of all banks -- they disagreed on details. Figuring out those details was a “desperately trying undertaking,” in Warburg’s words. Completely secluded, the men woke up early and wor...
B.C. Forbes somehow learned about the Jekyll Island trip and wrote about it in 1916 in an article published in Leslie’s Weekly (October 19, 1916 p. 423), which was recapitulated a few months later in an article in the magazine Current Opinion. In 1917, Forbes again described the meeting in Men Who Are Making America, a collection of short biographi...
Dec 23, 2013 · At Jekyll Island, Aldrich and the bankers came up with a plan. They knew many Americans thought a central bank could become too powerful, too influential in the economy.
Monetary reform activist Bill Still discusses his latest documentary Jekyll Island: The Truth Behind the Federal Reserve.What's the real problem with the wor...
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Jekyll Island, the Truth Behind the Federal Reserve. Summaries. This film is about the greatest rip-off in history - the very way money and debt are created and controlled. This affects everyone on the planet, and is the basic cause of all of our economic problems today.
In this lesson, students will learn about the history of Jekyll Island, the Panic of 1907, the Aldrich-Vreeland Act, the origins and outcomes of the secret Jekyll Island meeting, and the passage of the Federal Reserve Act.
This video explores the early history of the Federal Reserve. Viewers will learn about Jekyll Island's past and the Panic of 1907, the origins and outcomes of the secret Jekyll Island meeting, and the passage of the Federal Reserve Act.
