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The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve Paperback – January 1, 2010
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- Print length608 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAmerican Media
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 2010
- Dimensions6 x 1.26 x 9 inches
- ISBN-10091298645X
- ISBN-13978-0912986456
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- Publisher : American Media; 5th edition (January 1, 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 608 pages
- ISBN-10 : 091298645X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0912986456
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G. EDWARD GRIFFIN
is a writer, documentary film producer, and Founder of Freedom Force International. Listed in Who’s Who in America, he is well known because of his talent for researching difficult topics and presenting them in clear terms that all can understand.
He has dealt with such diverse subjects as archaeology and ancient Earth history, the Federal Reserve System and international banking, terrorism, internal subversion, the history of taxation, U.S. foreign policy, the science and politics of cancer therapy, the Supreme Court, and the United Nations.
His better-known works include The Creature from Jekyll Island, World without Cancer, The Discovery of Noah’s Ark, Moles in High Places, The Open Gates of Troy, No Place to Hide, The Capitalist Conspiracy, More Deadly than War, The Grand Design, The Great Prison Break, and The Fearful Master.
Ed is a graduate of the University of Michigan where he majored in speech and communications. He is a recipient of the coveted Telly Award for excellence in television production, the creator of the Reality Zone Audio Archives, Publisher of Need to Know News, and is President of American Media, a publishing and video production company in Southern California.
He has served on the board of directors of The National Health Federation and The International Association of Cancer Victors and Friends and is Founder and President of The Cancer Cure Foundation. He is the Founder of Freedom Force International and creator of Red Pill University, Red-Pill Expos, and Rabbit-Hole Expeditions. The mission of these Red-Pill and Rabbit-Hole endeavors is far more serious than they may sound. It is to popularize a global coalition for the victory of individualism over collectivism and liberty over tyranny.
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It discusses the intricacies of present day fiat system - and how the federal reserve creates money out of thin air to lend to institutions. It is not so much a “reserve” of money but an independently run cartel (founded to eliminate competition & swallow smaller banks) that operates for profit rather than serving the greater needs of the economy and the people. The middle class have repeatedly been thrown under the bus and the rich keep getting richer under such a system.
Money is just a store of value but to a “poor” mind (financially uneducated), it can be a very emotional thing that they work hard to accumulate. For the federal reserve, it’s their super power that they can legally create money from nothing and charge interest on money that didn’t even exist in the first place. They’re simply flooding the system and own everybody with their fake money. Who pays when the government spends money & bails out companies in an altruistic fashion? Where does the money go? Who pockets it?
Money is an emotional trap for the financially uneducated. I think this book has helped me see how money is created and how the scales are tipped in the fed’s favor & not in ours. The federal government spends money so recklessly that it’s operating at a deficit and when it needs money it goes to the Fed without asking the public. The fed prints more money to pay the corrupt individuals who purposefully bankrupt their companies (and get the government to co-sign those loans) and pocket the extra $$ in terms of bonuses, dividends and salaries, and the rich still keep getting richer. When the government gets bailed out, the Feds pump more money into the system which leads to inflation. All this is irresponsible and reckless but done in the name of jobs and helping the public. The government is inefficient and a scapegoat run by politicians who twiddle their thumbs and knowingly bail out corrupt companies, and banks which operate just so they can make high risk loans. The public is distracted by FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) and expects handouts. I see money differently now that I know what to expect & why saving without appropriately investing the money to create Cashflow isn’t exactly helpful as it means next to nothing (you’ll stay poor if you continue to save). The book discusses how banks are pushed to legally commit S&L (savings and loans) fraud. Ultimately, the information contained within has helped me reflect on capitalism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand and how the global economy is on the brink of collapse because of present day fiat system and the federal reserve cartel.
It’s a heavy book with a lot of content but it’s been written in such a way that you can pick which parts you want to read, and details can be skipped & you can read the chapter summaries. I’ve read the book until chapter 4, and I’m reading and making notes. Its an excellent book & I recommend every curious individual to read it. It’s opened my eyes to the idea of money, its declining value, and it’s lack of safety from external factors like Fed-created inflation and eventual economic collapse. This book was recommended by R Kiyosaki in Cashflow Quadrant & I decided to read it along with a list of other books that he recommended. I’m glad I did.
The Federal Reserve System--do we simply have to accept it as part of living in the modern world or should we terminate it?
Why do people say we don't really live in a "free market" society?
Should we be concerned about the World Bank and the IMF? What about the UN? Why can democrats and republicans appear to be on different sides of many issues yet when one or the other gets into office some of the most important issues (many not even discussed during the campaign) march forward as if it didn't matter which one was elected? How bad is our currency, really?
Who is to blame, bankers or government?
Read the book and find out. This is truly an incredibly important read not because of the opinions expressed but because of the primary source quotes and annotations and the logical cohesion sewn into every chapter.
It's one thing to express an opinion, write a book around it, and sell copies. This is not that kind of book. This book traces the history of banking and paper money starting hundreds of years ago when goldsmiths kept gold in their vaults for customers in exchange for paper receipts and continues through to the creation of European central banks, the Fed, and the Bretton-Woods Accord.
But it's not a boring dry read filled with banker babble. It reads more like a horror story than anything (a horror story that is true!). And you won't walk away from this book an anti-capitalist. In fact, I am the most ardent capitalist I know (that's saying a lot) and I finished this book and almost cried. We have done some absolutely horrible things to our currency--the life blood of our economy. All we wanted our government to do was guard our liberties and leave us alone. We have lives of our own we'd like to lead. But our government and the world's largest bankers have taken advantage of our innocent nature--our blind eye to inflation and collusion at the highest levels. They have taken advantage of what little trust we have in them and have used that trust to destroy entire nations through influence, debt, and war all with our tacit approval. We are guilty because we allowed it to happen. We failed to watch every SINGLE move our elected officials made over the past hundred plus years. And while we weren't watching, while we weren't educating ourselves on the labyrinthine banking architecture being built right in front of our faces they inflated our wealth, our savings, and our future away. All of it. And they destroyed nations in the process. And the United States, being the most prosperous nation in the history of the world will crumble because we never saw it coming.
But I must be wrong! We have money now, right? We can save now, right? We've made it through economic downturns before and we'll make it through this one, right?
Time. Time reveals the lie that has been sold to us. Read the book and find the truth.
Griffin has written one of the most excellent and accessible histories of the Federal Reserve System. He backs it up with stunning and sometimes appalling first hand quotes from original sources (not from sophomoric and professorial interpretations of sources). He gets them straight from the horse's mouth and compiles them in an easy to read tome and sews it all together with solid logic. This is the way the world works folks.
All we wanted was to be left alone. But that is not possible now. You must read this book to find the truth because you won't find it on TV or in the main stream news or in a PBS special. When you finish the book you'll know WHY.
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However when I finally cracked it open - I couldn't put it down. For your typical student of Austrian economics none of the history outlined in this book will be particularly surprising, but when you see it all put together in this way the magnitude of injustice perpetuated by our insidious monetary system washes over you in waves of insight, horror and outrage.
I've seen people complain about the fact that the author doesn't organize the book in chronological order, but I prefer it this way. The book can be read cover to cover but also serves as useful resource to refer to, with the chapters effectively standing alone as lessons. While I recommend reading all of it, one can easily cherry pick chapters that cover topics of particular interest.
It's precisely the kind of book I would recommend to anybody and everybody, and in fact I ordered this copy specifically to hand around to my blue collar coworkers, with a selection of chapters and passages I find especially poignant bookmarked for them to read.
To my surprise and elation - my coworkers (largely uneducated immigrants - hard working, well meaning factory men and women of character) have been very receptive and engaged with the concepts and dreadful realities outlined in this work.
Given the geopolitical and economic circumstances we currently find ourselves in (and in the case of my coworkers and myself, the economic class we find ourselves in, namely lowly workers of a small independent manufactueing business in the productive economy), these lessons are especially powerful and are exactly the sort of notions that need to be spread around to the common man and woman. The harm caused by the machinations of the world's central bankers confront us every day, and adults of all backgrounds and circumstance are ready and able to make sense of them with the help of books like this.
Some also seem to point to the author's proclivity for "conspiracy theory", but I honestly don't know what they're talking about. The few times the author speculates about motives or specific events, he's very clear about when he's making assumptions and when he's simply relaying accounts by important players. The readers can make of those quotations what they will, but this isn't some wild eyed rant. It's a well researched account of banking history in the US.
At times the author may attribute more influence to some of the not-so-secret societies and clubs populated by financial elites than can really be proven, but digging into the details of those groups is hardly the point of this book anyways. Whether particular agendas were prompted by one cabal or another is almost immaterial - the insidious consequences of said agendas are the same. The large majority of the book is just analysis, explanation and history.
Overall I'd argue this book and it's message have aged exceptionally well, and it feels like the sort of work that could change the world for the better if only more people were aware of it. Were high school students compelled to read books like this rather than the drivel that is typical in a school curriculum, one can only imagine the kind of world we might live in...
Whether you're interested in sound money economic theory or not this book is must-read. It's written in plain and accessible language, it's succinct, it's eye-opening... Absolutely a necessity for any modern thinking person's library.
Es imprescindible eliminar los bancos centrales, volver al dinero verdadero (oro, plata, bitcoin) para no volvernos esclavos del globalismo socialista anticristiano de la agenda 2030, Bilderberg, Davos,.......