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40. Conclusion to Part II

Murray N. Rothbard · 1:10

40. Conclusion to Part II by Murray N. Rothbard is a free audio lecture (1:10) at freecapitalists.org, part of the 64-lecture series A History of Money and Banking in the United States Before the Twentieth Century.

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0:00Conclusion The financial elites of this country, notably the Morgan, Rockefeller and Kuhn-Lebb interests, were responsible for putting through the Federal Reserve system, as a governmentally created and sanctioned cartel device, to enable the nation's banks to inflate the money supply in a coordinated fashion, without suffering quick retribution from depositors or note holders demanding cash. Recent researchers, however, have also highlighted the vital supporting role of the growing number of technocratic experts and academics who were happy to lend the patina of their allegedly scientific expertise to the elites' drive for a central bank. To achieve a regime of big governments and government control, power elites cannot achieve their goal of privilege through statism without the vital legitimizing support of the supposedly To achieve the Leviathan state, interests seeking special privilege and intellectuals offering scholarship and ideology must work hand in hand.

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