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[–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

History of Central banking by Goodson. You can find it on s/runebooks.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Goodson had plenty of disinformation in that book. For instance his fake letter in the appendix to Lincoln by Mr. Dick at the end.

[–]FriedrichLudwig[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

To what extent is the history he presents wrong though? Is it a good introductory read to the role of central banks in important historical events?

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's fine, but when you use a fraudulent source to exclaim that Lincoln was against the banks, even though he was promoted by the Whigs and radical republicans and was the forerunner for the permanent public debt banking system, that he himself promoted, it calls into question your research. The letter is fake and it makes no sense why authors continue to make Lincoln out to be anti-Usury. They still hold to the concept of banking and wanting banks but with better regulations such as public banking. They never seem to talk about holding houses at post offices and silver certificates or other concepts of a medium of exchange that does not rely on banking.

[–]Jesus 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

BEST BOOK: Merchants of Death: A Study Of The International Armament Industry

And;

'Shall it be again' which is on Yamaguchy.com

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/john-turner/shall-it-be-again/hardcover/product-1m4zw622.html

The first is a well written detailed book.

[–]FriedrichLudwig[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The "early military-industrial complex" is definitely something I plan on looking into eventually, but now for now I'm trying to understand who these "bankers" are, and how they contributed to WW1. I've always believed that the fall of Europe's monarchies and the transition of power to the bourgeois-dominated parliamentary democracy system is exactly what the elites wanted, so I wanna see to what extent WW1 was part of that forced transition.

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Seligman, Loeb, Schiff, Warburg, Lehman, Guggenheim?