Category: Federal Reserve

• The Federal Reserve Theory

  A monetary theory claiming that President Kennedy was killed because he signed Executive Order 11110, which allegedly threatened Federal Reserve power by permitting the Treasury to issue silver certificates and thus bypass private central-bank control of U.S. currency. The theory usually presents the order as a direct challenge to banking elites and interprets the assassination as the defense of monetary sovereignty held outside democratic reach.

• The Planned Depression

  The Planned Depression was the belief that the Great Depression was not an uncontrolled collapse but a deliberately induced contraction in which the Federal Reserve and allied financial interests shrank the money supply, tightened credit, and triggered foreclosure in order to absorb farms, homes, businesses, and productive assets at distressed prices. In this theory, the crash of 1929 was only the public spectacle; the true mechanism was monetary strangulation. The theory drew strength from the real historical fact that the money supply fell sharply between 1929 and 1933, banks failed in waves, and ownership shifted dramatically as borrowers lost access to credit. The conspiracy version converted monetary failure into intentional liquidation.

• The "Czar’s" Secret Gold in New York

  This theory claimed that Romanov or imperial Russian gold was secretly transferred to New York and effectively absorbed or stolen by the Federal Reserve after the Russian Revolution. It drew on three real facts: the Russian Empire held one of the world’s largest gold reserves before 1917, substantial portions of that reserve were moved abroad during the First World War to support war credits, and New York later became one of the world’s major centers for central-bank gold custody. In conspiracy form, those facts were compressed into a single tale of Romanov wealth disappearing into the Fed.