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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