PUTTING AMERICA’S FINANCES IN ORDER
Sep 01, 2021
3 minutes
BY FRANK A. VANDERLIP
AND BOYDEN SPARKES
Following the bank panic of 1907, Congress created a commission to develop a sound national monetary system. But before any public debate on the matter, committee chair Senator Nelson W. Aldrich invited a select group of banking and government insiders to a secret meeting at the isolated Jekyll Island Club on the Georgia coast. This article, written by one of the participants 25 years after the meeting, shed new
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