On today's show, we tell the origin story of the Federal Reserve — the most powerful financial institution on the planet.
The story includes a 70-year-old man with a bad head cold and a bunch of mistresses, a nation that's deeply ambivalent about a central bank, and a secret meeting on an island with a sketchy name.
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