Money Matters gives insight into understanding money, its traps and pitfalls. Money is amoral… but it can be manipulated unless you understand its power.

Free Silver

Fleecing of the flock is the term the money changers use for the process of booms and depressions which make it possible for them to repossess property at a fraction of its worth. In 1891 a major fleece was being planned. “On Sept 1st, 1894, we will not renew our loans under any consideration. On…

The Return of The Gold Standard

Let’s explore the Gold Standard (1866 – 1881). “Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln’s brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened, it would have no doubt become an established institution.” W.Cleon Skousen. Even after his death, the idea that America might print its…

Andrew Jackson

When the American congress voted to renew the charter of The Second Bank of The United States, President Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) responded by using his veto vote to prevent the renewal bill from passing. His response gives us an interesting insight. “It is not our own citizens only who are to receive the bounty of…

Napoleon is suspicious of Bankers

Napoleon Bonaparte (1761-1829) didn’t trust the Bank of France, saying: “When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes… Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object…

Bank of North America

Robert Morris was born in Liverpool, England in 1734, the son of ironmonger Robert Morris, Sr. When the senior Morris emigrated to the colonies, he settled in Maryland and became a tobacco agent. Robert joined his father in Maryland in 1747 and was an apprentice in the Philadelphia mercantile house of Charles Willing. Here he…