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High Finance, Low Expectations: The First Thing Is Character

High Finance, Low Expectations: The First Thing Is Character

Update: 2021-02-09
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Where does the Federal Reserve come from? Who was there when it was created? Can a person be pestered to death? These are the important questions we'll answer in this podcast recounting how the banking system we've come to know today came to be. Join the Tinderbox podcast as we investigate the making and unmaking of a massive conspiracy of money in the 19-teens. Works cited:FRASER | Discover Economic History | St. Louis Fed. fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/historical/house/money_trust/montru_report.pdf. “Full Text of Money Trust Investigation : Investigation of Financial and Monetary Conditions in the United States Under House Resolutions Nos. 429 and 504 Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, (1912-1913) : Part 5, Pages 343-411.” FRASER, fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/money-trust-investigation-80/part-5-23662/fulltext. J.P. Morgan, The Pujo Committee, and the "Money Trust", utpressnews.blogspot.com/2016/03/jp-morgan-pujo-committee-and-money-trust.html. Jr., Ivan Pongracic. “The Great Depression According to Milton Friedman: Ivan Pongracic Jr.” FEE Freeman Article, Foundation for Economic Education, 1 Sept. 2007, fee.org/articles/the-great-depression-according-to-milton-friedman/. “The Louis D. Brandeis Collection - Louis D. Brandeis School of Law Library.” Go to Louisville.edu, louisville.edu/law/library/special-collections/the-louis-d.-brandeis-collection. Mason, Jane B., and Jonathan Betuel. Theodore Rex. Scholastic, 1995. Pak, Susie. Gentlemen Bankers the World of J.P. Morgan. Harvard University Press, 2014. “Speech by Chair Yellen on Macroeconomic Research after the Crisis.” Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/yellen20161014a.htm.
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High Finance, Low Expectations: The First Thing Is Character

High Finance, Low Expectations: The First Thing Is Character

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