Murder of McKinley & Creation of Federal Reserve

In a previous discussion of William McKinley's presidency, we explored McKinley's achievements in building up the productive economy of the United States, including his policies of tariffs, bi-metalism, trade reciprocity and the expansion of a regulated national banking system.

The assassination of McKinley in 1901 not only led to the reversal of these American System economic policies, but to a destruction of American economic sovereignty itself. With the Federal Reserve, an alien oligarchical financial and banking paradigm was imposed upon the United States, a money-system which concentrated power and wealth in the hands of a few.