The Duck Hunting Trip That Changed American Finance Forever

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November 1910. Six men representing one-quarter of the world's wealth boarded a private rail car in New Jersey using only first names. They told reporters they were going duck hunting. They were actually headed to Jekyll Island, Georgia — to a club so exclusive that membership required unanimous consent and a net worth exceeding $1 billion in today's dollars. For ten days they worked in complete secrecy. What they wrote became the Federal Reserve Act. As one participant later admitted: "If the public had known our particular group had written a banking bill, that bill would have had no chance whatever of passage."

This video reveals how the Jekyll Island meeting created the blueprint for America's central bank — from the Panic of 1907 that made it necessary, to the secret drafting process, to how the bill was rebranded as "reform" and passed on Christmas Eve 1913. You'll see how J.P. Morgan's private rescue in 1907 proved one man held too much power: how Paul Warburg studied European central banks and adapted their cartel structure for America, how Benjamin Strong — one of the six men at Jekyll Island — became the first governor of the New York Fed, and how the system designed in secret still controls American money today.

The Federal Reserve prevented future panics like 1907. It also presided over the Great Depression, the 2008 financial crisis, and the 2020 monetary expansion. When Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in 2023, the same debates about emergency liquidity and "too big to fail" echoed arguments first made in Morgan's library in 1907. The structure created at Jekyll Island ensures the Fed serves financial institutions first — because financial institutions designed it.

The duck hunting story was cover. The bill became law. The system is still running.

📑 CHAPTERS
0:00 - Introduction
1:26 - The Panic of 1907
2:40 - Morgan's Private Rescue
4:13 - The Jekyll Island Meeting
6:30 - The Hidden Blueprint
8:26 - How It Became Law
10:37 - Profit From Every Crisis

📜 SOURCES & REFERENCES
G. Edward Griffin – "The Creature from Jekyll Island" (1994)
Ron Chernow – "The House of Morgan" (1990)
Roger Lowenstein – "America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve" (2015)
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis – Jekyll Island Historical Archives
B.C. Forbes – "Men Who Are Making America" (1917)
Pujo Committee – "Money Trust Investigation" Congressional Report (1913)
Frank Vanderlip – "From Farm Boy to Financier" (1935)
Paul Warburg – "The Federal Reserve System: Its Origin and Growth" (1930)

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