The bit about Montague Norman having nervous breakdowns is true. Apparently he had a number of them.
I have read a history of the Bank of England and a history of the BIS but simply can't remember why the BIS was established in Basle. In light of the fact that its original purpose was to credit German reparations to the accounts of England, France and the other countries Germany owed reparations to, and then credit THAT money to the USA to pay off all the money borrowed by the allies from the US during WWI, it made sense that it would be established in Switzerland, which was neutral during WWI (and WWII, for that matter.)
The fact that Switzerland was neutral during WWII did not protect the BIS from the Nazis, who took it over and extorted quite a bit of gold from other countries with the assistance of the BIS.
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The problem with conspiracy theories is that you are walking through a factual minefield unless you know the agenda of the theorist.
The site you linked to me yesterday claimed that the Mont Pelerin Society is a secret society. You seem to like von Mises, so you should know that von Mises was a founding member of the Mont Pelerin society (along with Hayek and Milton Friedman.)
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The goal of the Mont Pelerin society was and is promoting capitalism, in my opinion a worthy goal.
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The fall of the Soviet Union has not convinced Marxists that Communism is unattainable and unworkable. They're out there, striving away. In the Middle East, many former adherents to Marxism have switched to Islamism. They use the same - exact same - disinformation that the Marxists do, and the White Supremacists do, and the Nazis did (and Neonazis still do.) Lyndon Larouche is a prime example of a Marxist posing as a populist, spreading the awful and most transparant lies. Cleverly, he cloaks his lies in a veneer of verifiable fact, so that the gullible don't take the trouble to check out the rest of the allegations. |
