Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Author:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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Volume 14, Number 1 (Spring 2011) In The Mystery of Banking , Murray Rothbard explained how the origins of central banking in the US were rooted in a lobbying effort by Robert Morris and other “nationalists” to create a bank modeled after the Bank of England that would subsidize their businesses with cheap credit and other forms of corporate