Crime Against Humanity: “National”, “Federal”, “Central” Banking, 22

They had a common problem: how to reverse an adverse trend. A trend expressible in terms of loss of market share, or in less aseptic terms of liberation from economic slavery in the making. They had a common goal, a goal composed of five purposes.
The first, and basic, purpose was stopping the growing competition from small indepentent banks, thrift institutions, savings and loans associations, etc., regaining the upper hand and maintaining and increasing control over the nation’s financial resources.
To achieve the first, the second purpose was improving the competitiveness of their debt money and stopping the growth of its competitor, real wealth.
The third purpose was to turn the competing small independent banks from a bunch of sticks in the mud into a pool of exploitable resources.
The fourth purpose was dumping the inevitable losses of an intrinsically fraudulent system from its perpetrators to its victims. Particularly so in view of the fact that their goal included bringing that fraudulent system to an unprecedented level, immense and systematic.
The fifth, obvious, purpose was that, in Griffin’s words, as with all cartels, it had to be created by legislation and sustained by the power of government under the deception of protecting the consumer.

Although the end goal and all the purposes above relate to what we have just discussed, the second of these may benefit from an additional explaination from Griffin:
Sound money, backed by real value, that is, a more honest ratio between money and actual product, curbing among other things the banks’ fractional reserve bug, produced a realistic money supply and a realistic balance between debt and thrift. That is, the cost of money was low enough to attract serious borrowers, confident of the success of their ventures and of their ability to repay, and high enough to discourage borrowers for ventures that were pies in the sky or for which there were alternative sources of funding such as one’s own capital.