==================== HES POSTING ===================== For your information, Murray Rothbard has two articles on the founding of the FED, each over 100 manuscript pages that will soon be published for the first time in his forthcoming HISTORY OF BANKING: FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO WWII. I would point out that "Conspiracies" or plots are a standard material for economic and public choice analysis because all legislation is in some sense a "scheme" between politicans and interest groups to accomplish some goal that usually benefits members of the "conspiracy" against the general public. Given the importance of the FED, there is a surprising lack of academic reserach on the subject. Mark Thornton BTW: It is true that the Mises Institute does control and virtually orchestrates every word written or spoken by the 200+ scholars associated with it. So far, this conspiracy has gone largely unnoticed both because Rothbard, (who was the Institute's Academic Vice President before his death) was Jewish and because the Institute could labeled anyone who found out about the conspiracy, a conspiracy theorist. :) ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]