Introduction: Money and Politics
What is the Optimum Quantity of Money?
Monetary Inflation and Counterfeiting
Problems for the Fractional-Reserve Banker: The Criminal Law
Problems for the Fractional-Reserve Banker: Insolvency
Easing the Limits on Bank Credit Expansion
Origins of the Federal Reserve: The Advent of the National Banking System
Origins of the Federal Reserve: Wall Street Discontent
Putting Cartelization Across: The Progressive Line
Putting a Central Bank Across: Manipulating a Movement, 1897-1902
The Central Bank Movement Revives, 1906-1910
The Fed at Last: Morgan-Controlled Inflation
The New Deal and the Displacement of the Morgans