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Mar 4Liked by Ed Berger

Can’t believe I never read that one. What do you think of Kolko?

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HAVE you ever read this paper? "Origins of the Federal Reserve System: International Incentives and the Domestic Free-rider Problem"

https://annas-archive.org/md5/0a6c7ed7bc063e7324939d8bbd835dad

Argues that a big and underrated reason for creation of federal reserve was so that we could make use of bankers acceptances which had not been allowed under national banking system, a development which allowed the dollar to become an international currency for the first time. Broz doesn't mention it (remains in basic macroecon-theoretical framework) but it is right after this that the Morgan-Rockefeller American International Corporation is trying to expand in China. Their headquarters were in 120 Broadway same as empire trust, and you know all about that.

This is also a good paper on the AIC. Talks about Hog Island too:

https://annas-archive.org/md5/fd17e56211739ef65ee3a35e5d1466ed

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