The Money Masters
The Money Masters is a documentary on the history of banking and monetary policy. It was produced by Patrick S. J. Carmack to address, according to the author, extremely important but unpopular topic to an audience that thinks economics is too complex and boring subject for them. The film's website states having sold approximately 50,000 copies.The documentary is divided into several segments. First it presents an alleged problem in modern centralized banking system. Keeping that in mind, it explores the history of money and banking from its point of view, showing the viewer how central banks came to be what they are today. Finally the film presents the documentary's proclaimed vision of a different kind of a monetary policy for the United States of America.
The segments as they appear in the film:
- The Problem
- The Money Changers
- Roman Empire
- The Goldsmiths of Medieval England
- Tally Sticks
- The Bank of England
- The Rise of the Rothschilds
- The American Revolution
- The Bank of North America
- The Constitutional Convention
- First Bank of the U.S
- Napoleon's Rise to Power
- Death of the First Bank of the U.S.
- War of 1812, Waterloo
- Second Bank of the U.S
- Andrew Jackson
- Abe Lincoln and the Civil War
- The Return of the Gold Standard
- Free Silver
- J.P. Morgan / 1907 Crash
- Jekyll Island
- Fed Act of 1913
- J.P. Morgan / WWI
- Roaring 20s / Great Depression
- FDR / WWII / Fort Knox
- World Central Bank and Conclusions.
