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Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy Paperback – November 15, 2016

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Official Mises Institute EditionThis fiery monograph shows a side of Murray Rothbard not seen in his theoretical treatise: his ability to employ "power elite" analysis to understand the relationship between money, power, and war.Rather than allow the left to dominate this approach to history; Rothbard shows how wealthy elites are only able to manipulate world affairs via their connection to state power. Those mainstream historians might deride Rothbard's history as a "conspiracy" approach, Rothbard himself is only out to show that world affairs are not random historical forces but the consequence of choices and paths chosen by real human beings.Here he gives the grim details of how a network of banks, bond dealers, and Wall Street insiders have both favored war and profited from it.The contents of this volume include a long and thoughtful introduction by Anthony Gregory and an afterword by Justin Raimondo.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ludwig von Mises Institute; Mises Institute Official Edition (November 15, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 108 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1610161920
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1610161923
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.25 x 9 inches
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Murray Newton Rothbard (/ˈmʌri ˈrɑːθbɑːrd/; March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American heterodox economist of the Austrian School, a revisionist historian, and a political theorist(pp11, 286, 380) whose writings and personal influence played a seminal role in the development of modern libertarianism. Rothbard was the founder and leading theoretician of anarcho-capitalism, a staunch advocate of historical revisionism, and a central figure in the twentieth-century American libertarian movement. He wrote over twenty books on political theory, revisionist history, economics, and other subjects. Rothbard asserted that all services provided by the "monopoly system of the corporate state" could be provided more efficiently by the private sector and wrote that the state is "the organization of robbery systematized and writ large." He called fractional reserve banking a form of fraud and opposed central banking. He categorically opposed all military, political, and economic interventionism in the affairs of other nations.(pp4–5, 129) According to his protégé Hans-Hermann Hoppe, "There would be no anarcho-capitalist movement to speak of without Rothbard."

Rothbard was a heterodox economist. Economist Jeff Herbener, who calls Rothbard his friend and "intellectual mentor", wrote that Rothbard received "only ostracism" from mainstream academia. Rothbard rejected mainstream economic methodologies and instead embraced the praxeology of his most important intellectual precursor, Ludwig von Mises. To promote his economic and political ideas, Rothbard joined Llewellyn H. "Lew" Rockwell, Jr. and Burton Blumert in 1982 to establish the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Alabama.

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NeoFeudalSerf
5.0 out of 5 stars Nepotism runs wild between Wall Street and U.S State Dept
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2012
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This book was an easy read with many interesting insights into the revolving door between Wall Street investment banks and the U.S. Executive Branch particularly the State Department. Some of the interesting tidbits I learned:

Who purchased the shares of the defunct French company that went bust by failing to build the Panama Canal and how they benefited from inside information of the U.S. plans to take the project over.

Why years later the U.S. gave the Panama Canal back to Panama and who benefited on Wall Street.

WWII and the battle to go to war in the Pacific vs. Europe. Who wanted to fight Japan and who wanted to fight Germany?

The Cowboys and the Yankees.

Various coups instigated by the CIA for the benefit of corporations

After reading this book you will realize that the more things change the more they stay the same. This book is a great launching point for the following books:

 The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
The Yankee and Cowboy War: Conspiracies from Dallas to Watergate
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made with a new introduction by the authors
Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
The CHAIRMAN: JOHN J MCCLOY & THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT
Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power
The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA
The World Order: Our Secret Rulers
Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam
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AbraXas
5.0 out of 5 stars If You were fooled into Thinking Trump Would Drain the Swamp (he lied) READ THIS!!!
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2016
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I just purchased this book and now that this new POTUS Trump has selected Steve Mnuchin as treasury secretary (2nd generation Goldman Sachs and Skull and Bones member), Wilbur Ross as commerce secretary (saved Trump from debt in early 90's and co-owned Taj Mahal casino/Rothschild Inc. and Bank of Cyprus employee-chairman/Wall street secret society Kappa Beta Phi leader) and is considering Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn for a major position; this book should be examined and referenced. New boss is just as same as the old boss...and the last few several bosses! The highest position of power was purchased a long time ago. Long gone are the days of Andrew Jackson's Bank Wars! Keep your eyes opened!!! Thank You!
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NLC
5.0 out of 5 stars Eye Opening Book
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2012
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This book is amazing in that it traces the government - power business elite connections from the 1800's through to the 1970's and 1980's.

It was amazing to learn that there were three camps in which all banking elite came from:
--Rockefeller
--Morgan (JP Morgan)
--Loeb

Individuals (if you could call them that) were either a Rockefeller, Morgan, or Loeb person on how they went about doing business.

I always knew that members of government were connected, but never at this level.

In addition, this book goes on to show how these business elite's positioned the government for war because they knew that it would be "good for business".

I would definitely recommend this book, but watch out, this read may increase your anger level.
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Kyriakos Varveris
5.0 out of 5 stars Enlighting!!!
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2013
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This book is a true revelation. From the first glance it gives you the full perspective of the monetary establishment. M. Rothbard as a student of Ludwig von Mises continiues the legacy of promoting the idea of the true free market, and true capitalism away from any kind of government intervention!!!
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LaFonda
4.0 out of 5 stars Not best Rothbard
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2023
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One of the few easily obtainable Rothbard works applying his power elite analysis to international monetary policy post -1930s, therefore valuable qua scarce. But no footnotes and feels too long on “old school ties”-level association rather than ostensible smoking guns. For the latter (albeit on the earlier period) see the Rothbard anthology The History of Money and Banning in the US.
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5.0 out of 5 stars i want to read my other book
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2015
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Kindly get out of my face... Leave me be... Let me alone, dammit, or I will exercise a large a n irreverent vocabulary.
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Karl G. Kowalski
3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining Read, Libertarian/Anarchist Viewpoint
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2014
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I have enjoyed Rothbard's "History of Money and Banking in the United States" and this volume also provides extensive details about the major events of the 20th century, up to the early 1980s (publication date: 1984). I do have a few reservations.

Rothbard is an anarchist - his belief system is "No Government, period." His writings tend to fall into the Libertarian viewpoint, but he represents the extreme end of that perspective.

With respect to the Cold War era, a lot of the episodes start with something like this: "After (some foreign leader) nationalizes (some large company's property), (some Morgan- or Rockefeller-allied individual) pushed the United States government to violence."

Rothbard's Libertarian/Anarchist views tell him that even though the use of force involved in "nationalizing" the property of a company necessarily must be bad, the United States government cannot intervene with its own use of physical force. This is a core failure of Libertarianism - that American property can be stolen and the American government should just stay out of the problem.

Nationalization = Theft. Rothbard refuses to recognize this fact. While the US Government's reactions to nationalized properties are brutal and in many instances unforgivable, Rothbard's belief that the US Government should take no action is disgusting.

Again, lots of interesting information, but read it with a skeptical eye, and keep Rothbard's viewpoint in mind.
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Ludus Societus
5.0 out of 5 stars Understanding the hype during the search for the next "dear leader"
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2016
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As this hunt for the new potus heats up, this book is indispensable.
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Bella
5.0 out of 5 stars Must-read
Reviewed in Canada on February 15, 2021
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Knowledge important to all of us but somehow nobody is aware of it...
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Music Pro
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 29, 2018
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Interesting work from Mr Rothbard. Shows clear connections of the bankers and blue blood families to the political establishment. I recommend Anthony Sutton's books about Skull and Bones or "Wall Street and The Rise of Hitler", as Rothbard names a lot of Bonesmen, but does not call them out as Bonesmen.

I was not aware of how much the Trilateral Commission had pretty much taken over Carter's government. This is highlighted in this book. Mainly Rockefeller pulling the strings in the US via Kissinger and Brezinski. A direct link between the Rothschilds and Morgan is also made by Rothbard.

Easy to read book. Very interesting.
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Science n history
5.0 out of 5 stars The first thing you should read on money and banking
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 23, 2014
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This is a short, timeless classic that is deeply sophisticated theoreticaly, but is written with Rothbard's incredibly simple prose.
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