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My name is Jim Aune, and I teach at Texas A & M.  I am a professor of 
rhetoric, but I am interested in the way technical economic arguments are 
represented in public communication.  I have been thinking of doing a study 
of the "federal reserve conspiracy" argument [I noticed that it surfaced 
yet again during the Million Youth March in NYC], and I was wondering if 
there are some standard sources I am missing--not the conspiracy arguments 
themselves, but any academic commentary on the conspiracy arguments.  It's 
of particular interest to me that the conspiracy theorists seem to use the 
"Austrian" defense of the gold standard and "free banking" as ammunition 
for their arguments. Any help would be appreciated. 
 
Jim Aune 
Texas A & M 
 
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