A critical examination of the privately-owned Federal Reserve bank and the money brand; its role in the military-industrial complex, fomenting wars and defrauding the public.

The dollar, like all fiat currencies, is a brand - a psychological construction. Our faith in it gives it value and power over us. Once our faith in it dwindles, so does its perceived value. Similarly financial institutions can lose the faith of their clients and when they do so a run on the bank often occurs.

• The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
• G.Edward Griffin
• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: American Media,U.S.; 3rd illustrated edition edition (17 Aug 1999)
• ISBN-10: 0912986212; ISBN-13: 978-0912986210

If I offered you a million dollars, you may well be prepared to sell your soul. No? How about 100 million or a billion dollars? So we have a deal? Good. Now, you ask - where does this cash come from? Thin air. That is how banks create fiat money. With it they can get real value in return, ultimately to buy tangible assets like farmland, forests and mines. All obtained with deceit and illusion. If you do not understand this leap then you need to read the book 'the Creature from Jekyll Island' by Ed Griffin. In it he explains the science (i.e. psychology) of money and how it empowers those who govern it to control and enslave the rest of us.

The Creature from Jekyll Island was written with the concerned citizen in mind, in other words anyone who cares about humanitarian society, or who has a desire to understand the relationship between Government, big corporations and dynasties that rule by proxy. By shedding light on the murky world of money-science, Ed Griffin does his best to unmask the hidden bogeymen that play with our lives. Along the journey, which reads more like a murder-mystery thriller, the author explains banking bailouts, fiat money and why inflation is the least fair and stealthiest tax of all.

This is a compelling and fascinating book - buy it here:

The Creature from Jekyll Island

See a presentation by G.Edward Griffin, author of The Creature from Jekyll Island.

Some significant quotes:

"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws." - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild family international banking dynasty.

"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of a pen they will create enough money to buy it back again. However, take away from them the power to create money, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they OUGHT to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money." - Sir Josiah Stamp, former Director of the Bank of England.

"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But now the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards world government. The supra national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practised in past centuries." - David Rockefeller, at the 1991 Bilderbergers meeting, Baden-Baden, Germany.