In 1862, Congress authorized the Treasury to print $150 million worth of bills of credit and put them into circulation as money to pay government expenses.
They were printed with green ink and became known as “greenbacks.” By 1865, $432 million in greenbacks were in circulation.
The impetus for the creation of fiat money (greenbacks) to pay for the cost of the civil war originated in Congress, but President Abraham Lincoln was a very enthusiastic supporter:
“It would appear that Lincoln objected to having the government pay interest to the banks for money they create out of nothing when the government can create money out of nothing just as easily and not pay interest on it.” — The Creature from Jekyll Island, G. Edward Griffin
“Lincoln’s defiance of Lionel de Rothschild and his uncle James resulted in his assassination on the night of April 15, 1965 by John Wilkes Booth at the behest of the Rothschilds local agent named Rothberg.” — A History of Central Banking, Stephen Milford Goodson
While Goodson makes a bit of a leap in assigning blame without specifics to back it up, Booth was a British spy. He had also been a member of the Knights of the Golden Circle, which had a hand in the assassination. We also know that one million dollars in gold was sent from the Bank of England to the Bank of Montreal in Canada for funding a second civil war and that Booth knew the controller of that bank account.
We also know that the current U.S. Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, covered up most of the facts about the assassination at the time, and it was decades later that some of these facts came to light.
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