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How America's First Central Bank Was Killed

Amid current political pressures to abolish the Fed, Independence Day weekend is a good time to look back at the end of the Fed’s early precursor. This year is the 200th anniversary of a political fight that terminated the Bank of the United States, the nation’s long-ago central bank. Amid …

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Written by Kenneth Silber on Sunday July 3, 2011