Money quotes begin at 3:55. “It’s [his book] not really about money and banking and theory and accounting and all of that sort of thing… It’s a whodunnit… It makes it more interesting.”
Well, at least he admits it. He doesn’t understand squat about banking, theory or accounting. Now, how one can purport to write a relevant book on the Federal Reserve System without understanding these things is beyond me. But clearly it didn’t stop Griffin. But, in Griffin’s defense, it sounds to me like “relevance” wasn’t his goal – it was making it “interesting.” That’s straight from the horse’s mouth. Clearly he succeeded for many on that count.