The creation of money is called most astounding sleight of hand ever invented. The creation of money is now privatized, as it is now being hold by a private banking cartel instead of congress. Most people think that government is the authority behind the issuance of money, but actually this is not the case. Except of the coins, the banks create all money, not the government. Federal Reserve Notes are issued by a private banking cooperation named the Federal Reserve, and lent to the government. Moreover Federal Reserve Notes and coins together compose less then 3% of the money supply. The other 97% is created by the commercial banks as loans. 
This seems unbelievable that banks create money, they lend. Same was the feeling of jury in Landmark Minnesota case, until they heard the evidence. First national bank of Montgomery vs. Daly (1969) was a courtroom drama worthy of a movie script. Defendant Jerome Daly opposed the bank’s foreclosure on his $14,000 home mortgage loan on the ground that there was no consideration for the loan. Daly, an attorney representing himself, argued that the bank had put up no real money for his loan. Associate Justice Bill Drexler recorded the courtroom proceedings; he said his role was to keep order in the courtroom. Drexler had not given much mental acceptance for defense and watching this The Bank President Mr. Morgan took a stand and admitted that the banks routinely created money for loans and that this was standard banking practice. Presiding Justice Martin Mahoney and the jurors all agreed that it seems like a fraud.
In his court memorandum, Justice Mahoney stated:
“Plaintiff admitted that it, in combination with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, . . . did create the entire $14,000.00 in money and credit upon its own books by bookkeeping entry. That this was the consideration used to support the Note dated May 8, 1964 and the Mortgage of the same date. The money and credit first came into existence when they created it. Mr. Morgan admitted that no United States Law or Statute existed which gave him the right to do this. A lawful consideration must exist and be tendered to support the Note.”
The defendant won this case and he kept his house. To Daly, the implications were enormous. If it was true that bankers were extending the credits without consideration. It was great defeat for them, as their loans could be declared void in the decision. Daly wrote in a local news article that:
“This decision, which is legally sound, has the effect of declaring all private mortgages on real and personal property, and all U.S. and State bonds held by the Federal Reserve, National and State banks to be null and void. This amounts to an emancipation of this Nation from personal, national and state debt purportedly owed to this banking system. Every American owes it to himself . . . to study this decision very carefully . . . for upon it hangs the question of freedom or slavery.”
The decision that was made has not implemented at all. Although at that time judges and courts were not dependants. After exposing this secret of banks Justice Mahoney lived for less then six months and in mysterious accident that appeared to involve poisoning he died. Since that time a number of defendants are attempting to avoid loan defaults using the defense that Daly raised; but they have met with only limited success. As one judge said off the record:
“If I let you do that – you and everyone else – it would bring the whole system down . . .. I cannot let you go behind the bar of the bank . . .. We are not going behind that curtain!”
But the work has done on this critical issue. And curtain has risen to give the in-depth view. Many reputable persons admitted to what going on. Sir Josiah Stamp, president of the Bank of England and the second richest man in Britain in the 1920s declared in an address at the University of Texas in 1927:
“The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in inequity and born in sin . . .. Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and, with a flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again . . .. Take this great power away from them and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in. . . . But, if you want to continue to be the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.”
Robert H. Hemphill, Credit Manager of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta in the Great Depression, wrote in 1934:
“We are completely dependent on the commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon.”
Graham Towers, Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1935 to 1955, acknowledged:
“Banks create money. That is what they are for . . .. The manufacturing process to make money consists of making an entry in a book. That is all . . .. Each and every time a Bank makes a loan . . . new Bank credit is created — brand new money.”
Robert B. Anderson, Secretary of the Treasury under Eisenhower, said in an interview reported in the August 31, 1959 issue of U.S. News and World Report:
“When a bank makes a loan, it simply adds to the borrower’s deposit account in the bank by the amount of the loan. The money is not taken from anyone else’s deposit; it was not previously paid in to the bank by anyone. It’s new money, created by the bank for the use of the borrower.”
The Shell Game of the Goldsmiths
The question that rises here is how this all process started and who started it? To get this answer we have to go back to the seventeenth century, when trade was done in gold and silver coins. It was hard to take plenty of these coins while traveling. So solution to this problem was goldsmiths who had the strongest safes in town. The gold smith issue receipts that can be used in place of coins. These receipts are also used when people came to take loan from gold smith. But gold smiths noticed that only 10% to 20% of receipt came back. So they made the receipts of values 10% to 20% more than the value of gold they actually lend. This means they issued notes. Their only principal was lent more money. This results into more money eventually owed back in principal and interest. They had to continually take out loans of new paper money to cover the shortfall, thus decreasing the value of currency while the people fell progressively into their debt.
In nineteenth century America, private banks issued their own banknotes that were ten times to their actual reserves in gold. This was called “fractional reserve” banking, meaning that only a fraction of the total deposits managed by a bank were kept in “reserve” to meet the demands of depositors. But a time came when all the customers demanded their gold back simultaneously and this made the system unstable. In 1913, the private banknote system was therefore consolidated into a national banknote system under the Federal Reserve, a privately owned corporation given the right to issue Federal Reserve Notes and lend them to the U.S. government. These notes, which were issued by the Fed basically for the cost of printing them, came to form the basis of the national money supply.
There came the down fall of dollar twenty years later. At that time value of Dollar was 40 percent backed by the gold. The money supply reduced. To overcome this situation in 1933 Franklin Roosevelt took the dollar off the gold standard. Today the Federal Reserve still operates on the “fractional reserve” system, but its “reserves” consist of nothing but government bonds. The government issues bonds, the Federal Reserve issues Federal Reserve Notes, and they basically swap stacks, leaving the government in debt to a private banking corporation for money the government could have issued itself, debt-free.
Theft by Inflation
M3, the broadest measure of the U.S. money supply, shot up from $3.7 trillion in February 1988 to $10.3 trillion 14 years later, when the Fed quit reporting it. Why the Fed quit reporting it in March 2006 is suggested by John Williams in a website called “Shadow Government Statistics” (shadowstats.com), which shows that by the spring of 2007, M3 was growing at the astounding rate of 11.8 percent per year. Question here is from where this new money is coming. So it is the same case that the banks are creating money. This all process results in inflation of money that results in inflation of prices. This inflation of prices is blamed on the government. But the only money that is issued by the US government is coins. And the countries where banks are nationalized, paper money, along with the coins can be issued by the government. But actually the private banks create the money. This results in price inflation. Banks only create the principal not the interest necessary to pay back the loans. A dollar lent at 5 percent interest becomes 2 dollars in 14 years. That means the money supply has to double every 14 years just to cover the interest owed on the money existing at the beginning of this 14-year cycle. The Federal Reserve’s own figures confirm that M3 has doubled or more every 14 years since 1959, when the Fed began reporting it. Thus the privatization of money is the underlying cause of poverty, economic slavery and under funded government.
The only solution of this problem is congress should take backs the hold of creating money. Fractional reserve banking needs to be eliminated, limiting banks to lending only pre-existing funds. If the power to create money were returned to the government, the federal debt could be paid off; taxes could be slashed, and needed government programs could be expanded. Money should be created only on government printing press. This new money should be used for betterment of country. New money should be added in market with out inflation of prices. This whole process will eventually reduce the taxes and new energy sources can be developed.
Further Reading:
- Wright Patman, A Primer on Money (Government Printing Office, prepared for the Sub-committee on Domestic Finance, House of Representatives, Committee on Banking and Currency, 88th Congress, 2nd session, 1964).
- See Federal Reserve Statistical Release H6, “Money Stock Measures,” www.federalreserve.gov/releases/H6/20060223 (February 23, 2006); “United States Mint 2004 Annual Report,” www.usmint.gov; Ellen Brown, Web of Debt, www.webofdebt.com (2007), chapter 2.
- “A Landmark Decision,” The Daily Eagle (Montgomery, Minnesota: February 7, 1969), reprinted in part in P. Cook, “What Banks Don’t Want You to Know,” http://www9.pair.com/xpoez/money/cook (June 3, 1993).
- See Bill Drexler, “The Mahoney Credit River Decision,” www.worldnewsstand.net/money/mahoney-introduction.html
- G. Edward Griffin, “Debt-cancellation Programs,” www.freedomforceinternational.org (December 18, 2003).
- In the Foreword to Irving Fisher, 100% Money (1935), reprinted by Pickering and Chatto Ltd. (1996).
- Quoted in “Someone Has to Print the Nation’s Money . . . So Why Not Our Government?”, Monetary Reform Online, reprinted from Victoria Times Colonist (October 16, 1996).
- Chicago Federal Reserve, “Modern Money Mechanics” (1963), originally produced and distributed free by the Public Information Center of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, now available on the Internet at http://landru.i-link-2.net/monques/mmm2.html ; Patrick Carmack, Bill Still, The Money Masters: How International Bankers Gained Control of America (video, 1998), text at http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/money-masters.html .
- James Robertson, John Bunzl, Monetary Reform: Making It Happen (2003), www.jamesrobertson.com, page 26.
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, “M3 Money Stock (discontinued series),” http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/M3SL.txt .
We need to restore the money of the Constitution. The right to issue money is that of the Govt not the Banks. The Govt issued it’s own DEBT free money before the banks forced the US into their endless debt slavery. Both Jackson and Lincoln were in favor of Govt issued money. Bring back the Colonial Script or The Green Back and America will once again flourish. Down with the banks. Why aren’t our children being taught our history in school?? We need to educate our children on our Govt issued money not slavery to banks.