Conclusion

Tags: The Fed, Money and Banks, U.S. History

06/26/2026 Murray N. Rothbard

Rothbard’s summation: the Federal Reserve was a government-sanctioned cartel engineered by the Morgan, Rockefeller, and Kuhn, Loeb interests to enable coordinated inflation—achieved only with the legitimizing support of technocratic experts and academics.

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