JFK vs. the Fed

Less than six months before he was assassinated, President Kennedy had begun formulating a new Federal Reserve Act, which many say would have restored the US Federal Reserve to a fully-fledged US Government bank.


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President Kennedy went after the Fed.


A little-known Presidential decree – Executive Order 11110 – was signed by Kennedy on June 4, 1963. It would have deprived the Federal Reserve of its ability to loan money to the Government at interest. By signing the document, President Kennedy was attempting to put an end to the Fed – or at least the Fed as we know it.



Without going into the specifics of Executive Order 11110, it arguably could have stopped the US from reaching its record-level national debt.


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Instead, JFK was assassinated as we all know. But what is less known is the United States Notes the President had issued as part of the executive order – notes which were designed to replace the Federal Reserve Notes – were immediately taken out of circulation.


To this very day, the Federal Reserve Notes remain in circulation as the currency all Americans use.


And, of course, what also remained post JFK was a central bank only nominally under the Government’s control.


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Published on July 02, 2014 13:43
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