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America's Money Machine, the Federal Reserve Bank

Politics / Central Banks Jun 10, 2009 - 02:32 AM GMT

By: LewRockwell

Politics

Elgin Groseclose, an eminent monetary economist in the 20th century, rips the roof off the Federal Reserve in this wonderful history that takes us from the Fed's founding to the 1960s. He shows that the gap between the promise and the reality is shockingly massive, so much so that the Federal Reserve must be considered one of the greatest failures in the history of public policy.


My first thought when reading this book was: who these days has time for this in-depth level of research? Thanks goodness someone did it, because I've not seen what he digs up repeated in any other source. Groseclose was meticulous, having spent many years culling through the archives of every institution and person involved with Fed decision-making. In case after case, he chronicles the policy failure, and the relentless decline in money's quality from the Fed's inception and forward.

Groseclose is a case of a major figure in 20th century economic thought who has been unjustly forgotten. After his PhD (American University) he taught at the City College of New York and became the first financial editor of Fortune and served as a financial consultant to Iran, helping to restore a gold standard after the war and controlling inflation. For many years, he ran his own institute, which permitted him time to do the extraordinary research you find in this book.

As just one example, the opening chapters unearth an editorial from the New York Times, which denounces the idea of the Fed as an example of the "shallow sophistries of (Theodore) Roosevelt Socialism," and further said that the American people are too intelligent and have too much common sense to put up with a central bank like the Fed. So not only was there opposition to the Fed, it had a voice and its predictions of a coming calamity turned out to be right on.

He shows that at no time in its history has the Fed actually achieved what it promised: low inflation, economic stability, stable growth, reliable regulation of the banking system. Groseclose goes further to show that the Fed has generated unrelenting cycles and inflation and been the major fuel for the growth of government – politicizing the whole of American economic life.

It is a great pleasure for the Mises Institute to be able to bring back this book, which contains singular research and will provide outstanding source material for a new generation of anti-Fed activists.

As a side benefit, the cover art of this book – though you can't see it in this photo – is actually built by thousands of tiny paper dollars. It is $15 in the Mises store.

This originally appeared on Mises.org.

Jeffrey Tucker [send him mail] is editorial vice president of www.Mises.org.

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