Most Americans know the Federal Reserve exists, but few realize how much it controls their lives. The books and films below expose the truth about this powerful institution, showing how the Fed manipulates money, markets, and our future.
Fed Up: An Insider’s Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America
“Every American must understand this extraordinarily powerful institution and how it affects his or her everyday life, and fight back.” DiMartino Booth pulls no punches in this exposé of the officials who run the Fed and the toxic culture they created. Blending her firsthand experiences with powerful financial data and transcripts from the Fed’s own meetings, Fed Up reveals the toxic culture at the heart of the Fed and how it’s affecting every American.
Where did the Federal Reserve come from? Murray Rothbard answers that question in detail in this extended essay, which reads more like a detective story than a textbook. Drawing on decades of historical scholarship, Rothbard shows that the Fed was not created to meet a national economic need or to serve the public interest. Instead, it emerged from cooperation between government officials, powerful banking interests, and economists brought in to provide intellectual cover. The result was a system designed to benefit elites at the expense of everyone else.
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood “The Monster.” But to most Americans today, Federal Reserve is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their own economic lives; of how and why it was founded and operates; or of the sound money and banking that could end the statism, inflation, and business cycles that the Fed generates. Dedicated to Murray N. Rothbard, steeped in American history and Austrian economics, and featuring Ron Paul, Joseph Salerno, Hans Hoppe, and Lew Rockwell, this extraordinary film is the clearest, most compelling explanation ever offered of the Fed, and why curbing it must be our first priority.
Alan Greenspan’s career is summed up in the title: Panderer to Power. This gripping analysis shows how Greenspan consistently chose fame and control over principle and freedom. Learn how his decisions shaped today’s economic landscape and how the Fed has grown more powerful at the expense of liberty.