creator Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 508 <p>The conference was held to mark the centenary of the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting that resulted in draft legislation (the Aldrich Plan) for the creation of the U.S. central bank. The problem facing the framers of the Aldrich Plan was how to create a central bank that could effectively function in a country such as the United States, with its diverse geographic, political, and economic interests. The resulting plan for a "decentralized central bank" was incorporated, with some modification, into the legislation that brought the Federal Reserve into being—the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. The general theme of the conference was to document and examine the performance of the Federal Reserve-historical, contemporary, and prospective—in the light of the Aldrich Plan's original vision.</p> eng The Origins, History, and Future of the Federal Reserve November 5-6, 2010 multipart 2010-11-01 2010-11-01 2010-11-06 9847 2026-03-27 17:01:03 2026-03-27 16:37:39 title frbatl-jek 9832 text http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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