By December 23, 1913, when President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law, it stood as a classic example of compromise--a decentralized central bank that balanced the competing intrests of private banks and populist sentiment.
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No he's more or less a fictional character in a movie. There was a Thomas Gates who was a general but had nothing to do with the assassination.
a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.