During House debate on the Federal Reserve Act, Republican (proto-fascist/socialist) Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. of Minnesota, speaks out against its imminent passage:

       This act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. … The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. … [I]f the trusts can get … inflation, they figure they can unload the stocks on the people at high prices during the excitement and then bring on a panic and buy them back at low prices. …

       [restored 6/5/2022]

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Mr. Lindbergh, speaking against House Report 163, 63rd Congress, 1st session, Congressional Record (December 22, 1913), vol. 51, part 2, pages 1430, 1445-46.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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