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To: Ilaine who wrote (4475)	6/7/2001 6:56:18 PM
From: pater tenebrarum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

i can imagine that anti-semitic propaganda would make use of the quote, but i nevertheless believe the Rothschild quote to be genuine. i've come across it quite often (usually in connection with discussion of fiat money)...i can't give you a citation you can't find for yourself (the quote is plastered all over the internet btw.) but if it isn't genuine, than it must be an extremely well-entrenched myth. Meyer Anselm Rothschild was the founder of the famous bank that bears his name, and "Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, etc." is by far his most famous quote...i've known it for years. btw., no anti-semitic slant was intended at all...the quotes by various dead US presidents on the topic of fiat money (from Jefferson to Lincoln to Madison as well as a few others) would have equally served the purpose...their indictments were all around harsh. i only picked Rothschild because he was a banker. here's another one, by Ludwig von Mises: "Government is the only agency which can take a useful commodity like paper, slap some ink on it and make it totally worthless."