U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency,: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency,, credited to Alfred Owen Crozier, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency, "Aldrich plan." by Alfred Owen Crozier. Read in English by MacKenzie Nikol Greenwood; TriciaG; Cori Samuel; Lucretia B.; Kevin Leung; Chris Pyle; Joseph Tabler; ke126; Melanie D. Young; Brian James; Elsie Selwyn In 1908, the National Monetary Commission was established by Congress to study financial boom-and-bust cycles. Senator Nelson Aldrich (Republican-RI) was chair of the commission. He, in secret enclave with a group of bankers, drafted what was called The Aldrich Plan, which provided for a central "bank" that would hold funds individual banks could borrow in the case of a bank run, print currency, and act as the fiscal agent of the US government. However, the plan gave little power to the government and seemed to give almost absolute control of the country's currency to Wall Street financiers. This 1912 book outlines the dangers and supposed duplicity of The Aldrich Plan while it was being debated in Congress. (The plan was eventually defeated, but was used as a basis for the Federal Reserve Act, which was signed into law in 1913.) - Summary by TriciaG

Recording facts

• Recording title: U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency,
• Author credits: Alfred Owen Crozier
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 16:24:26

Catalogue topics

• wall street
• banking
• banks
• currency
• aldrich plan

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 00 - Preface — 3:01
2. 01 - Chapter 1 - Central Money Trust — 28:26
3. 02 - Chapter 2 part i - The Aldrich Plan — 45:30
4. 03 - Chapter 2 part ii - The Aldrich Plan continued. — 45:25
5. 04 - Chapter 2 part iii - The Aldrich Plan continued. — 38:14
6. 05 - Chapter 3 - Fooling the People — 22:02
7. 06 - Chapter 4 - A Discovery — 48:32
8. 07 - Chapter 5 - Inflation and Contraction — 41:09
9. 08 - Chapter 6 - Frenzied Financing — 15:27
10. 09 - Chapter 7 - Confessions of Wall Street — 47:26
11. 10 - Chapter 8 - Wall Street's First ''Plan'' — 44:28
12. 11 - Chapter 9 - A Confidence Game — 39:36
13. 12 - Chapter 10 - A Central Bank to be Bought? — 11:01
14. 13 - Chapter 11 - Wall Street Stock ''Market'' — 39:52
15. 14 - Chapter 12 - Panics Natural or Artificial? — 19:38
16. 15 - Chapter 13 - Money is the Power — 40:40
17. 16 - Chapter 14 - The Slavery of Debt — 48:28
18. 17 - Chapter 15 part i - The National Banking System — 57:38
19. 18 - Chapter 15 part ii - The National Banking System continued — 1:00:17
20. 19 - Chapter 16 - Bank Graft and Crime — 27:21
21. 20 - Chapter 17 - Crime of Conspiracy — 26:06
22. 21 - Chapter 18 - Bank Credits vs Government Currency — 18:33
23. 22 - Chapter 19 - The Legal Tender ''Joker'' — 38:17
24. 23 - Chapter 20 - Reorganising the Money Supply — 21:27

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