WCP: Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World

Adam LeBor, author of Tower Of Basel, with Jim Puplava, March 1st, 2014. History of The Bank for International Settlements in Basel, The Central Bank of the Central Banks, a state within the state of Switzerland, co-founded in 1930 by J.P. Morgan's Hjalmar Schacht who was to become Adolf Hitler's "finance wizard".

Tower of Basel is the first investigative history of the world’s most secretive global financial institution. Based on extensive archival research in Switzerland, Britain, and the United States, and in-depth interviews with key decision-makers—including Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve; Sir Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England; and former senior Bank for International Settlements managers and officials—Tower of Basel tells the inside story of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS): the central bankers’ own bank.