The Roots of the Federal Reserve | Murray N. Rothbard

From the very beginning of the US, there were battles over central banking—with Thomas Jefferson leading the pro-gold standard, anti-central banking forces, and Alexander Hamilton championing easy money and an early version of the Federal Reserve. Under President Andrew Jackson, central banking was uprooted. lt wasn’t until 1913 that a coalition of bankers and politicians were able to establish the Federal Reserve System. Speakers discuss how the Federal Reserve was established, how it operates, why we would be better off without it, and what should replace it. Hosted by the Ludwig von Mises Institute at Jekyll Island, Georgia in 1986. Playlist link for complete event: Links to online writings on the Federal Reserve and other related resources: The Case Against the Fed Audio version: What Has Government Done to Our Money? / The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar Audio version: A History of Money and Banking in the United States Audio version: The Case for Gold: A Minority Report of the U.S. Gold Commission Audio version: Video: Gold versus Discretion: Ron Paul Debates Charles Partee Video: Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve Why Experts Get the Gold Standard Wrong Gold, Peace, and Prosperity The Gold Standard: Perspectives in the Austrian School Ludwig von Mises and the Case for Gold Ludwig von Mises on the Gold Standard and Free Banking Money and Gold in the 1920s and 1930s: An Austrian View The Solution: The People Must Reclaim Control of the Money Supply Ten Great Economic Myths Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure The Gold Standard Didn’t Create the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve Did Central Banks Are Purchasing Gold at Record Highs. Why? Alan Greenspan Admits Ron Paul Was Right About Gold A Brief (and Messy) History of Modern Gold Standards Money Isn’t a Gift from the State Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property The True Gold Standard Combining Bitcoin with Gold A Tale of Two Gold Standards Hazlitt on Gold Gold and Money What Do We Mean by Sound Money? A Portrait of the Classical Gold Standard How Gold Was Money--How Gold Could Be Money Again Classical Liberalism’s 700-Year Fight Against Monetary Oppression How Do We Get Rid of the Fed? The Gold Standard that Never Was Federal Reserve Attacks the Gold Standard The Gold Standard: Myths and Lies Economics of a Pure Gold Standard Inflation, or Gold Standard? Putting the Country Back on Gold The Great Gold Robbery The Anatomy of an International Monetary Regime: The Classical Gold Standard 1880-1914 The U.S. Presidents and the Money Issue Gold Policy in the 1930s A Private-Enterprise Gold Standard? Central Banks, Gold, and the Decline of the Dollar The Gold Standard: A Critique of Friedman, Mundell, Hayek, and Greenspan Conservatives Cite Keynes Against Gold Standard A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System Let’s Liberate Money Gold versus Fractional Reserves Free Choice of Currencies No Shortage of Gold Free Money Is Sound Money Why Inflation Is Worldwide How NOT to Advocate a Gold Standard * * * * * Audio licensed by the Ludwig von Mises Institute under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License. This YouTube channel is in no way endorsed by or affiliated with the Mises Institute.