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To clarify, on the Federal Reserve Conspiracy.  (This is kind of ironic, 
since it was Professor Boettke's web page that helped stimulate my interest 
in Austrian economics a while back. . ..)  There are three versions of it. 
All of them contend that a meeting at Jekyll Island, Georgia, in 1910 with 
Nelson Aldrich, Paul Warburg, and assorted Rothschild folks, set up the 
Federal Reserve, which is designed to (at minimum) protect its members from 
competition and begin the process of establishing a one-world government. 
There is an anti-Semitic version, associated with Eustace Mullins (a friend 
of Ezra Pound) and his book The Federal Reserve Conspiracy--this one 
appears to be circulating among various black nationalist groups as well; 
there is Pat Robertson's version in The New World Order, which blames the 
Illuminati and Satan;  and there is the more "moderate" version by G.Edward 
Griffin, The Creature from Jekyll Island, which is represents the John 
Birch Society position--basically a one-world conspiracy, without the 
religious or anti-semitic trappings.  All three work in Cecil Rhodes, the 
Fabian Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, Carroll Quigley, and 
Communism.  Griffin's book has blurbs on the back cover from Texas 
Congressman Ron Paul and Mark Thornton (both of who are associated with the 
Mises Institute at Auburn). There are numerous "Christian economists" 
(several I've noted with degrees from Auburn) who cite the Austrian 
critique of the Federal Reserve and free banking as part of the evidence 
for the conspiracy.  --I am NOT accusing Austrian economists (for whom I 
have considerable sympathy) of participating in this lunatic conspiracy. 
I'm just puzzling over these connections.  My original request was to see 
if anyone knew of any decent scholarly accounts of this sort of 
pseudo-economics. 
 
Jim Aune 
 
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