Six bankers posed as duck hunters and drafted America's central bank in secret

In 1910, a small group of the country's most powerful bankers and a senator spent nine days in seclusion on Jekyll Island, Georgia, disguised as a hunting party to hide their identities. Their currency reform plan became, with revisions, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. The participants denied the meeting had happened for two decades before finally admitting it.

— Roger Lowenstein, America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve — Penguin Press, 2015
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