Money Power

Government funding and the economic causes of war; the breaking of labour costs on the wheel of usurious interest. CONTENTS: American Money Power-British Money Power-Australian Money Power-Australian Money Power (Part 2)-Historic Note Currencies-The Capitalist Arsenal-Modern Banking-Reconstruction-As We Are. << "The War to End War" has finished these two years. The "New World After the War" and the "Green Fields of Perpetual Peace" are no longer unveiled to the gaze of admiring audiences. All the mirages have disappeared, and in their place come the pressure of governments squeezing from the masses the wherewith to meet the demands of the oligarchy of bondholders whom the "War for Democracy" has made more powerful than ever. The burden of "Interest" is equivalent to an indemnity imposed by a foreign conqueror. It continues to increase, not merely from the process of fresh borrowings; but from the heavy blackmail imposed by the "High Financiers" at every renewal of the old mortgages.>>