Nation states were so Westphalia. The real money was in the Dutch East type tendies so let’s get back to how centralized money, in the form of centralized banking, was coming along.

just a perfect day

We had a panic in 1907, your basic run of the mill stock manipulation gone wrong-

drink sangria in the park

and out of the ensuing chaos-

and then later when it gets dark

never wanting to let a good crisis go to waste of course-

we go home

first checking that domestic democratic impulse though by capping congress at 435 members-

just a perfect day

the powers that be succeeded in pushing through once and for all-

feed animals in the zoo

the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States in 1913-

then later a movie, too

capitalized by a newly-instated federal income tax that same year-

and then home

finally transferring the control of our nation’s money supply into private hands.

oh, it’s such a perfect day

Of course global war breaks out the very next year.