In this sequel to Joseph P. Farrell's Babylon's Banksters, the
banksters have moved from Mesopotamia via Rome to Venice. There, they
have manipulated popes and bullion prices, clipped coins, sacked
Constantinople, destroyed rival Florence, waged war, burned heretics,
and suppressed hidden secrets threatening their financial supremacy . .
. until Giordano Bruno and Christopher Columbus broke the banking
cartel's control of information and bullion.
We might wonder--with some justification--how an excursion into such
magical mediaeval matters could possibly shed light on the contemporary
debate on finance, commerce, credit, and debt taking place around the
world.
As will be seen in these pages, the modern global economy, with its
bonds, annuities, bills of exchange, alchemical paper fiat money,
bullion, wage-slavery, national debts, private central banking, stock
brokerages, and commodities exchanges, in a sense began in the Middle
Ages, for all these institutions began for quite perceptible and
specific reasons during that time.
The centerpiece in this debate is of course money: what, and who, does
it really represent? And how did it manage to begin as a purely
metaphysical phenomenon, with deep ties to a cosmological and indeed
topological and alchemical metaphor of the physical medium, thence to
transmute itself into the conception that money is bullion, and thence
once again to transmute itself back into a purely metaphysical construct
of credit and debt denominated on tokens of paper?
