If you're interested in the dark, hidden backstories, reading Stephen Zarlenga's book - The Lost Science of Money: The Mythology of Money, The Story of Power ...
During the late 1920s, the German Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht visited his friend, Benjamin Strong, then president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank and he was given a personal guided tour of the vaults of the bank by Strong. - (In the 1920's several nations voluntarily or involuntarily agreed that all the most significant supplies of gold and...