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 gm ☀️ End the fed
 was as secretive - indeed, as furtive - as any conspirator. 
Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all our time 
and effort would be wasted. If it were to be exposed that our 
particular group had got together and written a banking bill, that 
bill would have no chance whatever of passage by Congress.
~ Frank A.Vanderlip
President of the National City Bank of New York
(forerunner of Citi Bank)
~ Writing in 1935 of the secretive meeting that took place on 
Jekyll Island in 1910, to draft the bill that was passed as 
the Federal Reserve Act in 1913.
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