The Fed at One Hundred : A Critical View on the Federal Reserve System

Introduction -- A Pre-history of the Federal Reserve -- Does U.S. History Vindicate Central Banking? - Ben Bernanke, the FDR of Central Bankers -- Fed Policy Errors of the Great Depression -- The Federal Reserve: Reality Trumps Rhetoric -- A Fraudulent Legend: The Myth of the Independent Fed -- Will Gold Plating the Fed Provide a Sound Dollar? Arthur Burns: The Ph.D. Standard Begins and the End of Independence -- The Federal Reserve's Housing Bubble and the Skyscraper Curse -- There Is No Accounting for the Fed -- Fiat Money and the Distribution of Incomes and Wealth -- Unholy Matrimony: Monetary Expansion and Deficit Spending -- Information, Incentives, and Organization: The Microeconomics of Central Banking -- A Stocktaking and Plan for a Fed-less Future.