Category: Business & Finance

• Rockefeller Oil-Burning Plot

  A theory that the Great Depression was prolonged in part to accelerate the displacement of coal by oil and to deepen dependence on Rockefeller-linked petroleum systems. The claim tied mass unemployment and industrial collapse to a supposed managed energy transition in which households, transport, and industry would be pushed away from coal toward oil-based consumption.

• The Jewish-Bolshevik Banking Link

  An antisemitic interwar theory, heavily promoted by Father Charles Coughlin and allied publications, claiming that Wall Street finance and Bolshevism were not opposing systems but coordinated expressions of the same hidden power. The allegation merged older “international banker” rhetoric with the long-running myth of Jewish control over both capitalism and revolution.

• Scrip Tracking

  A Depression-era theory that emergency scrip issued during bank holidays and local liquidity crises was not merely temporary money, but a tracking instrument designed to identify hoarders. In the most elaborate versions, the paper carried chemical markers or other hidden signatures that would expose who held, delayed, or stockpiled the substitute currency.

• The Standard Oil Plastic Plot

  A theory that Rockefeller interests sought to replace traditional wood products with petroleum-based materials, creating dependence on oil not only as fuel but as the raw substance of modern life. The idea drew power from monopoly fears surrounding Standard Oil and from the real rise of synthetic materials, petrochemicals, and industrial substitutes during the early twentieth century.