Brown's Errors: History continued

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Historical Error #17: The Civil War's Greenbacks Were a Pure Fiat Currency Unconnected to Gold's Price.
Gary North - October 08, 2010

The myth of "Lincoln money" begins here. Ellen Brown promotes this myth.... keep reading

Historical Error #18: Two Bogus Quotations from Bismarck on How European Bankers Planned the Civil War and Lincoln's Assassination
Gary North - October 08, 2010

Ellen Brown filled her book with bogus quotations. These have to be the most obviously bogus quotations of all. Their source is a raging anti-Semite who wrote in 1921.... keep reading

Historical Error #19: The International Bankers Defeated Lincoln in 1863 With the National Bank Act.
Gary North - October 08, 2010

Ellen Brown neglected to tell her readers that Lincoln demanded that Congress pass the National Bank Act.... keep reading

Historical Error #20: A Bogus Quotation from President Garfield
Gary North - October 08, 2010

Ellen Brown fills her book with fake quotes out the way the Federal Reserve System cranks out money.... keep reading

Historical Error #21: There Was No Inflation on the Island of Guernsey after 1815, Despite Fiat Money.
Gary North - October 08, 2010

Ellen Brown cites a far-left sociologist to prove that fiat money does not raise prices. But her source offered no evidence. His story ignores key facts.... keep reading

Historical Error #22: Populism Represented the Interests of the Common Man in the 19th Century.
Gary North - October 08, 2010

The Populist movement wanted big government to control the free market. The movement represented politicians who wanted in on the Republicans' power. So does Ellen Brown.... keep reading

Historical Error #23: A Bogus Document, "Bankers Manifesto of 1892"
Gary North - October 08, 2010

Ellen Brown promotes this obviously bogus document, for which there is zero evidence of its authenticity.... keep reading

Historical Error #24: "Robber Baron" Capitalists Raised Prices and Reduced Quality in the Late 19th Century.
Gary North - October 08, 2010

Ellen Brown pitches the same old Populist-New Deal myth that late-19th-century businesses exploited their customers. She ignores 50 years of historical scholarship.... keep reading

Historical Error #25: Benjamin Strong (d. 1928) in 1929 Deliberately Caused the Stock Market Collapse.
Gary North - October 08, 2010

Ellen Brown makes up stories. This is her best one.... keep reading

Historical Error #26: A Bogus Quotation from Milton Friedman on the Federal Reserve Deliberately Causing the Great Depression
Gary North - October 08, 2010

Ellen Brown fills her book with bogus quotations. Here is another one.... keep reading

Historical Error #27: Hitler's National Socialist Economic Policies Ended the Great Depression in Germany.
Gary North - October 08, 2010

Ellen Brown reveals her true sympathies on page 234 of her book, "The Web of Debt." Start there. Then read the rest of it.... keep reading

Historical Error #28: Germany's Hyperinflation of 1921-23 Took Place Only After the Central Bank Was Privatized.
Gary North - October 08, 2010

Ellen Brown does not know the history of the German central bank, which was set up from the beginning in 1876 as a privately owned bank. German banks owned shares.... keep reading

Historical Error #29: Foreign Currency Speculators Caused Zimbabwe's Hyperinflation.
Gary North - October 08, 2010

Ellen Brown says that currency speculators caused Zimbabwe's hyperinflation.... keep reading

Historical Error #30: Gold's Price Rose in the Nineteenth Century.
Gary North - October 08, 2010

Ellen Brown says that gold's price rose in the United States in the nineteenth century. It didn't.... keep reading

Historical Error #31: Shays's Rebellion (1786-87) Took Place After the Constitution Was Ratified in 1788.
Gary North - October 08, 2010

Ellen Brown does not check the simplest facts of history. Here is another classic example of getting her dates wrong.... keep reading

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