In 1910, Senator Nelson Aldrich invited three bankers and two government officials to secretly meet at Jekyll Island to draw up plans for what would become the Federal Reserve System; their cover story was that they were going duck hunting.
Roger Lowenstein, America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve (New York: Penguin Press, 2015), 107-08.
Roger Lowenstein, America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve (New York: Penguin Press, 2015), 107-08.
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