America’s Bank
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What’s it about?
After the 1907 panic nearly collapses America, a small group of reformers fights decades of populist distrust to create the Federal Reserve—a political miracle born from crisis and compromise.
You’ll learn
- Why the US had no central bank for 100 years
- How J.P. Morgan saved the 1907 panic
- The political genius behind the Fed's design
- How compromise created a uniquely American institution