Title: The case against the Fed /
Authors: Rothbard, Murray Newton,; Ludwig Von Mises Institute.
Date: 1994
Publisher: Ludwig von Mies Institute, Auburn University,
Physical description: 158 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: H
Contents: Introduction: money and politics -- The genesis of money -- What is the optimum quantity of money -- Money inflation and counterfeiting -- Legalized counterfeiting -- Loan banking -- Deposit banking -- Problems for the fractional-reserve banker: the criminal law -- Problems for the fractional-reserve banker: insolvency -- Booms and busts -- Types of warehouse receipts -- Enter the central bank -- Easing the limits on bank credit expansion -- The central bank buys assets -- Origins of the Federal Reserve: the advent of hte national banking system -- Origins of the Federal Reserve: Wall Street discontent -- Putting a cartelization accross: The Progressive Line -- Putting a central bank across: manipulating a movement, 1897-1902 -- The Central Bank Movement Revives, 1906-1910 -- Culmination at Jeckyll Island -- THe Fed at Last: Morgan-Controlled Inflation -- The New Deal and the displacement of the Morgans -- Deposit "Insurance" -- How the Fed rules and inflates -- What can be done?
Subject headings (LCSH): Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.); Federal Reserve banks.; Monetary policy--United States.