The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve | 
|  | | | Title: | The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve | | Author: | G. Edward Griffin | | Publisher: | Amer Media | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | June, 2002 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0912986395 / 9780912986395 | | List Price: | $24.50 | | You Save: | $2.45 | | Amazon Price: | $22.05 | |
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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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• A Must Read For Anyone Who Is Interested In The Book Description 14 June, 2008
There is not much that I can add that has not already been stated. If you are interested in the things mentioned in the book description, you must read this book. I read the book before the credit crises began last summer, and it helped me understand that a bailout was coming, and more.
If you want to know more about the credit crises, I would recommend reading this book followed by "The Trillion Dollar Meltdown" by Charles R. Morris.
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
- Reviewed by customer ID: AWXER4WTEQS4H
• Good History; Bad Speculation 19 June, 2008
I believe all those things that were already within my knowledge and are recited here. I have no doubt that all money in the banking system is created out of loans. I know many examples of western countries maintaining a war only because paper money was available to them. I buy the argument that we are incapable of exercising monetary self-discipline in a paper system.
But there is a huge amount of other new information and Mr Griffin's problem is data overload. Getting a sufficiency of his argument into my mind to establish the case he is making means this book cannot be read, even chapter by chapter. More or less every paragraph requires deliberation and, as the subject matter really requires a revolutionary response, its not a pleasant read.
Its hardly surprising that Wikipedia has shot itself in the foot in trashing Mr Griffin - they simply could not handle the volume of data he supplies.
In linking-up the history of the Fed, Mr Griffin has exposed himself to the accusation of being a conspiracy-theorist - its implicit in his hostile Wikipedia bio mentioned earlier. Real life is not like that. In my experience something happens and people recognise it creates an opportunity and take it. Its not precisely an endless conspiracy rather than an endless awareness of opportunity and, as money is our own creation, it is unsurprising that we recognise the chances that change offers. Perhaps Wikipedia Editors will think about that too.
Mr Griffin is single-track in seeing monetary policy defining all government policy. Perhaps he is right - he has certainly amassed considerable persuasive data. He restates the old British misunderstanding of equality, the British principles argument in the wars with revolutionary France and Napoleon, which is, I think, unsupportable. His causes of WWI are too narrowly focused for my liking. And he asserts that several politicians publicly opposed the moneymen whilst actually supporting them - that is hard to swallow. These aspects may permit his critics to query his commitment to the whole truth.
What he does make clear is that in any system of government, decisions are ultimately made and packaged by very few people and democracy has no remedy for that - one ultimately trusts that power-holders are `fit and proper' chaps. We might reasonably call back the aristocracy to power - at least they were tutored to it and published the principles that defined their actions.
This is one of those books that is likely to be hooted away by the pundits until historians throw it back at us decades later when the system it describes has unravelled. There is unlikely to be a world-ranking authority endorsing it. The economist Ron Paul promoted it but his Presidential campaign failure has diminished the value of that endorsement.
We should try to be more straight-forward with knowledge, particularly unpleasant knowledge such as this book abounds in. There are no heroes here, excepting President Jackson. In their absence we have amusing writing - Chapter 22 is headed "The Creature swallows Congress."
I guess Mr Griffin has spent a huge amount of his time in preparing this work. There is much factual reporting that may be readily corroborated. He has ordered the information he has gleaned and provided summaries at end of each chapter. Its worth a couple of PhDs (history and economics) in my estimation.
I wish Mr Griffin had not written the last two chapters - his pessimistic and realistic prophecies for the future - or at least contained them in an Afterword somewhat separate from the rest of the book. Any forecast of the future is bound to be wrong - we are incompetent at it. By incorporating these speculations in the work I think he overstepped himself.
Nevertheless, I think Mr Griffin's work requires a response from central bank governors and Treasury Secretaries. It is an indictment of our monetary system and they should defend themselves. I should like to hear what the operators of our monetary system have to say. I hope they will not say the subject is too complicated for little people. Such a reply or the absence of any response will tend to reinforce my belief that Mr Griffin has got it right in broad terms.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A79SIMI31BQ94
• A Most Helpful Page Turner On The History And Uselessness Of The Destructive Federal Reserve. 03 May, 2008
I was fortunate in having met Mr. Griffin in July '07 where I was able to purchase and have signed a copy of "The Creature". I had heard about it a few months prior in the online circles with whom I associate. I had put off buying it thinking all I would derive was yawns and sleep.
I was wrong. To me it reads like a mystery with a history of money throughout. From sea shells to cigarretts to wampum and the tulip craze of the Dutch, I learned that Gold and Silver are king. Fractionalized Banking and Debt are now things I actively seek to steer clear of. The abolition of the Federal Reserve 'banking cartel' a shared goal.
I particularly like the chapter containing the story of "The Miner and the Taylor".
- Reviewed by customer ID: AJLHP71E8P1MM
• A Must-read 09 May, 2008
As others have noted, the conspiracy angle can be somewhat off-putting, but I personally don't find it too far-fetched. Books on the "power elite" have been available for many decades, and I have no problem believing that the world's bigwigs collude as necessary to keep their power and fortunes intact. The author's commentary about the Council on Foreign Relations sounds particularly credible to me. As a child, I noticed that it appeared regularly in newspaper articles, and I wrongly assumed that it was some sort of government agency. This eye-opener alone was worth the price of the book.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2HGGL69B08XK8
• Disband The Fed! 30 May, 2008
OMG! I was stunned when I read this book. It is a tragedy what our government has allowed to happen to our wealth. They let, and encourage the Fed to leech everything from us like a giant parasite.
Read this book, and demand your congreesmen support HR 2755. This will get rid of the Fed once and for all.
We are mandated by the Constitution to use gold and silver as money. Why do we let the Fed print "funny money" for us?
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2XVAPA1Q3BK87
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