As long as men are given the power to tinker with the money supply, they will strive to circumvent the natural laws of supply and demand.”

It is the ability of governments to acquire money without direct taxation that makes modern warfare possible, and a central bank has become the preferred method of accomplishing that.” Walker, who is also an expert on the grand tradition of the American conspiracy theory, has observed that “if you go to a movement like Audit The Fed, or End the Fed, you’ll see people citing that book there—I think I’ve seen it cited more so than any other anti-Fed conspiracy book.” The book delves into the clandestine meeting on Jekyll Island, Georgia in 1910, where key figures in banking and finance conspired to create what would later become the Federal Reserve System. Griffin meticulously uncovers the motives behind its establishment and the hidden agendas of the individuals involved. He argues that the Federal Reserve was conceived in secrecy, and its true purpose was not to protect the public interest but to serve the interests of a powerful few. a b Giraud, Victoria (May 22, 1995). "T.O.'s Griffin All Booked Up With Writing, Film Projects". Daily News of Los Angeles. G. Edward Griffin, author and documentary film producer, calls himself 'a plain vanilla researcher and writer.' But the projects he has completed don't deal with 'vanilla' subjects. They concern the Federal Reserve, the Supreme Court, cancer and even Noah's ark. Perhaps a better description of Griffin is one he also admits to - 'Crusader Rabbit.' ... The Creature from Jekyll Island provides the reasoning and evidence substantiating these claims. ConclusionThe meeting happened, there was a meeting at Jekyll Island, and it did play a formative role—but the problem with stories like this is that they try to reduce it to a single incident,” author and Reason magazine editor Jesse Walker told The Daily Beast. “[Griffin is] at the point where he can reduce things too much to a certain narrative, where the mustache-twirlers are behind everything.” It’s all fairly mundane and unsexy (though hugely consequential) stuff. The Fed doesn’t bomb anything, invade anything, or even tax anything.

It reads like a crime novel, with fascinating plot twists and turns , but the unfortunate thing is that this is all factual and happening to us all this very second . Law 3: “A nation that resorts to fiat currency dooms itself to economic hardship and political disunity.” The US dollar and just about every national currency are now fiat money systems. Via their central banks, they operate by using what Griffin calls the “Mandrake mechanism”. Forbes, B.C. “How the Federal Reserve Bank Was Evolved by Five Men on Jekyl Island.” Current Opinion vol. 61, no. 6 (December 1916): pp. 382-383.

Shortly after returning home, Aldrich became ill and was unable to write the group’s final report. So Vanderlip and Strong traveled to Washington to get the plan ready for Congress. Aldrich presented it to the National Monetary Commission in January 1911 without telling the commission members how the plan had been developed. A final report, along with legislative text, went to Congress a year later with a few minor changes, including naming the new institution the National Reserve Association. Please note that I put the original German text at the end of this review. Just if you might be interested. The financial turmoil of the early 19th century led to the American Civil War: The symbiotic relationship between the North and South – the North sold goods to the South, and the South sold cotton to the North – came under pressure from European competitors who threatened the North’s share of Southern business. The South rebelled against Northern protectionist laws, and European powers favored dividing America for financial gain. Abolishing slavery became an afterthought in the North’s pursuit of war, a ruse to stir public sentiment for the conflict. The Knights of the Golden Circle, a clandestine group connected to the Confederate secret service, commissioned one of its members, John Wilkes Booth, to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. “After the Civil War, the group went further underground and eventually emerged as the Ku Klux Klan.” The Creature Lives

The group included Aldrich; his private secretary Arthur Shelton; Davison; Andrew (who by 1910 had been appointed assistant Treasury secretary); Frank Vanderlip, president of National City Bank and a former Treasury official; and Warburg. While the US Congress officially created the Federal Reserve in 1913, contrarian G. Edward Griffin believes it was born in secret on a secluded island in 1910, designed by a handful of the world’s most powerful men. Griffin, president of American Media and author of The Discovery of Noah’s Ark, leads a circuitous journey through a different version of history, a recounting that bolsters his belief that mighty cabals aim to subjugate the United States to a new world government.Specifically, he argues that the Fed facilitates and legalizes certain types of fraud, destabilizes the economy by making business cycles more severe and by encouraging unwise investments, exacts a hidden tax in the form of inflation, promotes war, and enables wasteful government spending. Let’s consider each of these problems in turn. The Fed Facilitates Fraud Through Fractional Lending An additional member of the First Name Club was Benjamin Strong, vice president of the Bankers Trust Company and the future founding chief executive officer (then called governor, now called president) of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. But it is unlikely Strong attended the meeting on Jekyll Island. In his autobiography, Vanderlip recalls him attending, but no other account indicates Strong’s presence. Most scholars and journalists who have written about the issue, including Bertie Charles (B.C.) Forbes — the founder of Forbes magazine and the journalist who first revealed the meetings in an article in 1916 — have concluded Strong did not attend (Forbes 1916). Strong had worked closely with the Jekyll Island attendees in other venues, however, and his ideas were certainly present at the meeting even if he was not there in person. After the meeting, as the First Name Club revised the plan and prepared it for publication, Strong was frequently consulted and according to Forbes, “joined the ‘First-Name Club’ as ‘Ben’” (Forbes 1922). The Plan Takes Shape The meeting spawned the draft legislation for the creation of the central bank. Griffin spins this trip to Jekyll Island as the birthplace of the nefarious, scary, all-powerful banking system that every decent American should want torn down immediately. This book taught me a lot about history. The great banking family of Rothschild were well established in Germany and England. They more or less ran the bank of England. It didn't matter that the English hated Jews, the Rothschilds learned to hid in the limelight and run the banks from the shadows. Both Wellington and Napoleon built up their armies with Rothschild gold. In time they expanded their operations to America were great fortunes were to be made. The real horror in this story is that it is true, painstakingly documented (including documentary sources from the originators of the scheme), and devastating to the wealth and health of the nation, as well as the individual.