Category: Monetary Conspiracies

• The "Silver" Judas Plot

  This theory claimed that the Coinage Act of 1873, later denounced as the "Crime of 73," was not a technical monetary reform but a deliberate betrayal designed to contract the money supply, impoverish the United States, and place the country within the grasp of foreign finance, especially the Rothschild banking dynasty. The historical basis lies in the genuine fury that followed the demonetization of the standard silver dollar amid falling prices and debt pressure. The record clearly shows that many Americans believed they had been betrayed by hidden interests, but the specific claim of a coordinated Rothschild purchase plan belongs to the conspiracy tradition of the free-silver era.