[quote=CONCHO]Great quotes Allan. Here are a couple more of my favorites on the subject, both from men much smarter than myself:
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
— Henry Ford
“Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.”
— Mayer Amschel Rothschild[/quote]
CONCHO: That quote by Rothschild is especially timely, isn’t it? Its also interesting how little has changed over the last 200+ years. The same financiers who underwrote Napoleon’s wars (and his opponents as well) are still doing a brisk business.
I read an article recently about how the Rothschild family is still actively involved in finance and same for the Warburg family (Warburg Pincus). The more things change…