When President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act on December 23, 1913, he described the resulting institution as the “Supreme Court of Finance.” In the Federal Reserve System, Wilson believed, the United States finally possessed a central institution whose decisions regulated financial matters for the entire country, as did the Supreme Court in the […]
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