Category: Foreclosure Theory

• 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.