The cube root of 8 is 2.
"The cube root of 8 is 2."
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For > a century the enormously powerful J. P. Morgan & Co. (holding company for its bank subsidiary Morgan Guaranty Trust) "solemnly presided over American finance" from its HQ at 23 Wall Street, at the "corner" of Broad & Wall, across from the NYSE.
In 1895 Morgan prevented the financially weak U.S. Treasury from collapsing.
Pierpont traveled to Washington, D.C.
At the white House he proposed a deal to President Cleveland, Attorney General Olney, and Treasury Secretary Carlisle.
Morgan – along with Rothschild in Europe – would underwrite an extraordinary [at the time] issuance of Treasury debt.
An M & R syndicate would collect 3.5 million ounces of gold – more than half coming from Europe – in exchange for ~$65 million worth of 30-year gold bonds the U.S. Treasury would issue.
Also, the Treasury's newly obtained gold would remain inside the U.S.*
The Morgans were so entrenched at 23 Wall, they set the last four digits of their phone number to 2323.
2^3 = 8, of course. Perhaps that's an ancient fact entirely separate from Morgan's address.
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The element with atomic number 23 is Vanadium [V].
Vanadium is used to "improve" steel, creating a hardened but lighter alloy for industrial use.
Vanadium steel was essential to mass manufacturing of automobiles.
It also improved weaponry, enabling fighter planes to carry lighter cannon instead of heavy machine guns.
The 23rd letter of the alphabet is W ["Dubya"]. There are no coincidences.
*The House of Morgan / Copyright ® 1990 by Ron Chernow / Atlantic Monthly Press / New York / 812 pages