CannCon and Ashe in America kick off G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island and hit the ground running. Chapter one pulls back the curtain on the secret 1910 Jekyll Island meeting where six of the most powerful bankers in the world quietly drafted what would become the Federal Reserve System. The crew breaks down how the Fed was never designed to protect the public but was structured as a private banking cartel to eliminate competition, control the money supply, shift losses to taxpayers, and consolidate financial power in the hands of a few. The 1913 trifecta of the Federal Reserve Act, the income tax, and the 17th Amendment gets called out as centrally planned, coordinated transformation. Plus, Paul Warburg's outsized role, the Rothschild and Rockefeller connections, and a sharp discussion on why repealing the 17th Amendment may matter more than most people realize.