What was the key reason for the creation of the federal reserve system?

It was supposedly established to stabilize the economy. If you start to look into what's really happened you will find that the money flow has actually been LESS stable since the Fed took over. The current "economic crisis" has the same source of all of the major crises in U.S. history, contractioin of the money supply. The panic of 1907 was caused by a sudden contraction by powerful European banks and this was the excuse for creating the Fed in 1913. The Fed is controlled by the same financial cartel that created the 1907 panic. It is the only institution that could have caused a contraction of the money supply large enough to create the current "crisis". It seems obvious that history has repeated itself.

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