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When the Federal Reserve Bank buys a $10,000 US Treasury note, or any acceptable asset of that amount from a member bank, it can set off a ten-fold jump in money supply.

Washington chose Alexander Hamilton for Treasury Secretary because Hamilton knew public financing. The program he proposed would work-but could he get it passed?

A goal of paying off Revolutionary War debts led to a second uprising. Some call it America's first Civil War as it pitted the government against its citizens.

Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton both contributed to the development of the United States' socio-economic system, but one prevailed in influencing this progression

By 1915 American bankers and merchants kept the Allied cause viable through loans and war material, leading to speculation entry in the war was motivated by investment.

The Vietnam War created doubts in Americans' minds about their government's ability to win a war. Over three decades later, the Iraq War is having the same effect.

The frantic speculation of the 1920s, the declining purchasing power and the global economic crisis thrust Americans into the Great Depression

Face facts! Alcohol has always been a part of the American landscape. Through good times and bad, war and peace, Prohibition and even a Rebellion, whiskey was there!

America had many "Founding Fathers". Yet, each one was inspired by a revolution with origins in social, political, economic and religious ideas and values.

As America struggles with its potentially worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, there is a danger that the Presidential transition can make it worse.

Despite a business plan that was doomed to failure, the South Sea Company attracted hordes of investors willing to bet their savings on the company's profitability.

While they historically appeared as ideological opposites, both Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton contributed to the early political identity of America.

The Treaty of Paris formally ended the American Revolution.

Mutually negative perceptions on the part of the colonists and the British during four colonial wars against France & huge war debts helped cause the American Revolution.

Although the former colonies were now fully independent, the new nation was plagued with problems in governance, commerce, and internal social concerns.

Today, Americans have grown familiar with the ebb and flow of the economy. The panic of 1819 can be pointed to as America's formal introduction into this endless cycle.

The story of four Irishmen who found the biggest silver bonanza in U.S. history and changed their (and our) lives forever.