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WEB OF DEBT
The Shocking Truth
About Our Money System
and How We Can Break Free
Third Edition
Revised and Expanded
ELLEN HODGSON BROWN, J.D.
Third Millennium Press
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Copyright © 2007, 2008
Ellen Hodgson Brown
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted
in any form or by means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or
otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher.
First edition July 2007
ISBN 978-0-9795608-0-4
Second edition revised and updated February 2008
ISBN 978-0-9795608-1-1
Third edition revised and expanded March 2008
ISBN 978-0-9795608-2-8
Cover art by David Dees
Library of Congress Control Number 2008900963
Includes bibliographic references, glossary and index.
Subject headings:
Banks and banking – United States.
Debt – United States.
Developing countries – Economic policy.
Federal Reserve banks – History.
Financial crises — United States.
Imperialism – History – 20 th century.
Greenbacks — History.
Monetary policy.
Money – History.
United States — Economic policy.
Published by Third Millennium Press
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
www.webofdebt.com
800-891-0390
Printed in Malaysia
ISBN 978-0-9795608-2-8
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ............................................................................... ix
FOREWORD by Reed Simpson, Banker and Developer .............. xi
INTRODUCTION: Captured by the Debt Spider ....................... 1
Section I THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD:
FROM GOLD TO FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES ....... 9
Chapter
1
Lessons from The Wizard of Oz...................................... 11
2
Behind the Curtain: The Federal Reserve
and the Federal Debt ............................................................. 2 3
3
Experiments in Utopia: Colonial Paper Money
as Legal Tender ...................................................................... 3 5
4
How the Government Was Persuaded to Borrow
Its Own Money ...................................................................... 4 7
5
From Matriarchies of Abundance to
Patriarchies of Debt ............................................................... 5 7
6
Pulling the Strings of the King:
The Moneylenders Take England ....................................... 6 5
7
While Congress Dozes in the Poppy Fields:
Jefferson and Jackson Sound the Alarm .......................... 7 5
8
Scarecrow with a Brain:
Lincoln Foils the Bankers ..................................................... 8 3
9
Lincoln Loses the Battle with the Masters
of European Finance ............................................................. 9 1
10
The Great Humbug: The Gold Standard
and the Straw Man of Inflation .......................................... 9 7
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Section II THE BANKERS CAPTURE
THE MONEY MACHINE ........................................ 105
11 No Place Like Home:
Fighting for the Family Farm ........................................ 107
12 Talking Heads and Invisible Hands:
The Secret Government ..................................................... 115
13 Witches’ Coven: The Jekyll Island Affair
and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 .............................. 123
14 Harnessing the Lion: The Federal Income Tax ............. 133
15 Reaping the Whirlwind: The Great Depression ........... 141
16 Oiling the Rusted Joints of the Economy:
Roosevelt, Keynes and the New Deal ............................. 151
17 Wright Patman Exposes the Money Machine .............. 161
18 A Look Inside the Fed’s Playbook:
“Modern Money Mechanics” ........................................... 171
19 Bear Raids and Short Sales:
Devouring Capital Markets .............................................. 181
20 Hedge Funds and Derivatives:
A Horse of a Different Color ............................................ 191
Section III ENSLAVED BY DEBT:
THE BANKERS’ NET
SPREADS OVER THE GLOBE ................................. 201
21 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road:
From Gold Reserves to Petrodollars ................................ 203
22 The Tequila Trap: The Real Story
Behind the Illegal Alien Invasion ..................................... 215
23 Freeing the Yellow Winkies:
The Greenback System Flourishes Abroad .................... 223
24 Sneering at Doom:
Germany Finances a War Without Money .................... 233
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