Part 1: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — Our Early Political Leaders Warned Us Against the Banking Interests

Part 1: Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis — Our Early Political Leaders Warned Us Against the Banking Interests

A Video in Six Parts Written and Produced by Richard C. Cook ©2009 by Richard C. Cook. All Rights Reserved.

Early U.S. statesmen, such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Andrew Jackson worked to free the nation from control by the bankers who had been behind the establishment of the First and Second Banks of the United States. During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln implemented a true democratic currency by spending Greenbacks directly into circulation without borrowing from the banks. These measures allowed the U.S. to develop for much of the 19th century largely free from bankers’ control. By the end of the century, this had changed, and the bankers were taking over.

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Aired: 3/24/09 12:00 AM