Arthur Nelson Field
The Bretton Woods Plot (1957)
From Chapter One
On May 17, 1944, the Allied Supreme Command in the second world war tentatively fixed June 5 as D-Day for the invasion of Normandy. This was the most important decision of the war and a jealously guarded top secret. Nine days after the decision was taken, and eleven days bef...
John Moody, 1868-1958
The Masters of Capital: A Chronicle of Wall Street (1921)
From Chapter One
THE old meaning of the word “capital” ‐ that is, an accumulation of wealth, either money or substantial property, for use in the production of more Wealth has been greatly enlarged within recent times. In earlier days, under the crude methods th...
Alexander Del Mar, 1836-1926
A History of Monetary Crimes (1899)
1983 reprint.
Introduction
Tne insidious crime of secretly or surreptitiously altering the monetary laws of a State‐than which no more dastardly or fatal blow can be dealt at its liberties‐is not a new one. There is a suggestion in the decree of B. C. 360, concerning the anc...
A K Chesterton
The Menace of the Money Power (1946)
An Analysis of World Government by Finance
PREFACE
THE final deductions in this treatise, and in particular the relating of the Final Act of Bretton Woods to the financial policy which led to the foundation and perversion of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, are the author’s own, for which...
Proctor W. Hansl
Years of Plunder: A Financial Chronicle of Our Times (1935)
Foreword - New Ways For Old
SINCE the turn of the century it has been an open question in America whether Business would devour Government or Government would devour Business. During the first half of this period the trend was toward the emergence of Business as th...
