Central Banking and the Constitution

Mises Media · Oct 13, 2020

[From the 2020 Supporters Summit, presented at the historic Jekyll Island Club Resort on Jekyll Island, Georgia, on October 9, 2020.]

At breakfast, I ran into Ed Griffin who wrote that wonderful book The Creature from Jekyll Island, the greatest book written about the monstrosity that was created 110 years ago and he said, “I heard you’re talking this afternoon. What are you going to talk about?” I said, well the title of my talk is the Constitution and Central Banking. He said, “Oh, you’re going to go for about thirty seconds,” because there’s nothing in the Constitution about central…