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Podcast: Macroaggressions
Episode: #522: The House Always Wins On Jekyll Island
Description: The creation of the Federal Reserve came out of a secret meeting on Georgia’s Jekyll Island in 1910 between a bunch of bankers connected to The Money Trust and the recently purchased Senator Nelson Aldrich. They planned to create a private central bank that they controlled to loan money into existence and collect interest on the debt.
To complete this plan they required help from the inside. Enter Woodrow Wilson to sell out the nation and its people to a consortium of domestic and international bankers. In the aftermath of the creation of the private Federal Reserve Bank, it...