J.P. Morgan and the Money Trust (HOM 29-B)

History of Money, Lecture 29, Pt. B: a survey of the most powerful financiers of pre-1913 America, on the eve of the Federal Reserve Act, including: John Pierpont Morgan, Benjamin Strong, Henry Davison, John D. Rockefeller, Frank Vanderlip, Jacob Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), and Paul Warburg. The pressure was on by the early-20th century to reform the National Banking System.

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