Federal-Reserve
The Creature from Jekyll Island
History of the Federal Reserve. Mixes serious institutional history with claims of private control and monetary conspiracy.
When There is No Money
Treatise #1 of Beers's 11-treatise corpus. Argues that Federal Reserve Notes are an unredeemable debt instrument backed by citizen labor, making the people creditors of the system rather than debtors. The structural argument depends on a chain of 19th-century Supreme Court cases — Willard v. Tayloe, Hepburn v. Griswold, Knox v. Lee, Canter — and 20th-century evidence like the Patman 1933 Congressional Record entry. Direct primary-source verification finds the chain does not hold: Willard does not say what Beers attributes to it; Hepburn was overruled by Knox; Knox itself upheld paper-currency authority on the merits; and Patman's 'mortgage on all the homes' line was spoken in *support* of fiat-backed currency expansion, not against it.