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The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve | 
 enlarge | Author: G. Edward Griffin
Publisher: Amer Media
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Rating:  189 reviews
Sales Rank: 6673
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4th
Pages: 608
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1.6
ISBN: 0912986395
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.110973
EAN: 9780912986395
ASIN: 0912986395
Publication Date: June 2002
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Condition: Brand new paperback. 614 pages. Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magicians' secrets are unveiled. Here is a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, the pulleys, cogs and wheels the create the grand illusion called money. This informative work is essentially four books in one: the basics on money, banking and currency, the fraud that passes as standard practice; how central banks are catalysts for war; a history of central banking in America showing how and why previous attempts failed; and finally, an analysis of the Federal Reserve including rteasons for its abolishment.
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Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magicians' secrets are unveiled. We get a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, their pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A dry and boring subject? Just wait! You'll be hooked in five minutes. Reads like a detective story which it really is. But it's all true. This book is about the most blatant scam of all history. It's all here: the cause of wars, boom-bust cycles, inflation, depression, prosperity. Creature from Jekyll Island will change the way you view the world, politics, and money. Your world view will definitely change. You'll never trust a politician again or a banker.
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 Ron Paul on the Federal Reserve January 9, 2009
Ron Paul (Texas)
"Even if the Fed chairman really possessed the singular genius our media and politicians regularly ascribe to him, what if things have reached a point at which the Fed simply cannot stop the collapse? What if economic law, which the Fed can no more defy than it can repeal the law of gravity, is about to hit the Fed and the American people like a tidal wave, before which little rate cuts here and there are like the tiny umbrella Wile E. Coyote puts over his head to protect himself from falling boulders?"
Ron Paul quoted from The Revolution: A Manifesto
Most Important Book I Have Ever Read!!! January 7, 2009
M. A. Genet (Jacksonville, FL)
I have read hundreds of books throughout my 33 years of life and none come close to this book. This book is both frightening and enlightening. It also goes to show that you really never learn in public school or college what you really need to know. I can't speak for the other readers but I plan doing whatever I can to slow down this oppressive beast controlling the well being of all U.S. citizens. Do yourself a favor. Get this book and get the education of a lifetime. This is not just a book about the Federal Reserve. It is the best book about American History I have every read. I was so pleased with this book I am looking into buying some his other books.
 Moronic garbage January 1, 2009
Patrick Mcnally
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Griffin's book is a chain of false citations pulled together in order to support a chain of Right-wing nostrums.
Just as one illustration of how Griffin falsely miscites historical references, when discussing the second Bank of the United States Griffin makes the claim that "It had promised to continue the tradition of moderating the other banks by refusing to accept any of their notes unless they were redeemable in specie on demand. But when the other banks returned the gesture and required that the new Bank also pay out specie on their demand it frequently lost its resolve." Although Griffin claims to be citing Ralph Catterall's work on the second Bank, one sees that Catterall had made a completely different point:
"Thus the Bank of the United States, even when it attempted to press its claims, found insuperable obstacles to collecting in coin. Hence the state banks enjoyed a virtual immunity from the payment of the vast majority of their notes. In striking contrast to this favor shown the state banks was the attitude toward the national bank. Banks, brokers, and traders made a business of extracting coin from its vaults, an operation facilitated by its faulty management in permitting excessive discounts. Brokers and bankers constantly bought up its notes and presented them for redemption, drew specie, sold it at an advance, bought bank notes, presented them, drew specie, sold it, and so on ad infinitum."
Griffin was clearly attempting to twist the facts about the second Bank in order to make them seem uncooperative and hence "bad," whereas the picture one gets from Catterall is that the second Bank was actually gullibly cooperative. In other words, Griffin deliberately misquoted a source in order to give a misimpression which was more in line with his ideological predilections. One could go through the whole book noting such misquotes.
Perhaps more relevant is to appreciate the way that Griffin has completely turned upside-down the significance of the formation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913. Most readers of Griffin whom I've come across are frequently under the misimpression that fractional reserves are an idea which was somehow introduced in 1913. That, of course, is absolutely moronic. Playing games with fractional reserves has been a central component of capitalism from the earliest days. When the United States was growing across the continent in the 19th century people manipulated the practice of money-lending with reserves that were very far short of 10%. It didn't matter because the US economy was growing at such a swift pace. When the US had conquered all of the western territories then the pace of economic growth started to slag and this led to the establishment of the Federal Reserve System as a form of regulatory agency over such fractional lending. But the point of consequence of 1913 was that it set up regulation over fractional lending, not that it introduced fractional lending. The US economy has always run on the fractional lending. That was true throughout the whole 19th century.
Griffin casts a gross distortion of the Jekyll Island meeting. In Griffin's world that meeting is presented as the origin of the Fed. In reality, it was the crisis of 1907 which started a very public debate on the need to form a national banking system. The meeting at Jekyll Island happened because the leading bankers felt they should try to preempt the public debate by putting together their own plan. However, the Aldrich plan was rejected and did not form the basis of the Fed. Griffin has very badly twisted the history here.
If someone honestly wants to get the facts about the Fed but is suspicious of liberal authors such as John Kenneth Galbraith (I must recommend his MONEY: WHENCE IT CAME, WHERE IT WENT however) then I'd suggest looking up Elgin Groseclose as a conservative author who nevertheless remains connected to reality where Griffin flies off into outer space. Something like AMERICA'S MONEY MACHINE should give readers a better comprehension of what has actually gone on. Reading Griffin is only of use to those who enjoy the study of Right-wing crackpotism. There isn't much there otherwise.
Robert Kyiosaki said we must read this book December 27, 2008
Mr. Steven Fazakerley (Brisbane, Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved reading this book, although it is quite a thick read it was very easy and flowing, the information was unbelieveable, the banks and goverments of the world have us sown up bad and we need to take action against it, the author presented factual information in a way that is simple to understand a topic like this can be very complicated but the read is easy to understand, I read this book because Robert Kyiosaki said too, and when he recommends anything I listen, a must read for everyone.
awesome book December 1, 2008
Constitution Kate (Venice, FL)
this book is great. It shows how bad our banks, monetary system and foreign affairs are all intertwined. It is a great starting point for history and our monetary policy. Now you can see why we have a perpetual rate of inflation and why are savings are eroded to a point of worthlessness by the time we retire. If more people read this book, they will demand a return to the gold standard.
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