Books

February, 1988

William Greider's Secrets of the Temple (Simon & Schuster) is a 750-plus-page tome that will tell you everything you've never wanted to know about the Federal Reserve System and would never have thought to ask. Believe it or not, it's a fascinating book. Unlike the internal operations of the CIA or the Pentagon, the Fed's secrets are open ones, protected from public scrutiny by the ability of bankers and economists to camouflage momentous decisions--their control of interest rates and the money...