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  1. Introduction: Money and Politics
  2. The Genesis of Money
  3. What is the Optimum Quantity of Money?
  4. Monetary Inflation and Counterfeiting
  5. Legalized Counterfeiting
  6. Loan Banking
  7. Deposit Banking
  8. Problems for the Fractional-Reserve Banker: The Criminal Law
  9. Problems for the Fractional-Reserve Banker: Insolvency
  10. Booms and Busts
  11. Types of Warehouse Receipts
  12. Enter the Central Bank
  13. Easing the Limits on Bank Credit Expansion
  14. The Central Bank Buys Assets
  15. Origins of the Federal Reserve: The Advent of the National Banking System
  16. Origins of the Federal Reserve: Wall Street Discontent
  17. Putting Cartelization Across: The Progressive Line
  18. Putting a Central Bank Across: Manipulating a Movement, 1897-1902
  19. The Central Bank Movement Revives, 1906-1910
  20. Culmination at Jekyll Island
  21. The Fed at Last: Morgan-Controlled Inflation
  22. The New Deal and the Displacement of the Morgans
  23. Deposit “Insurance”
  24. How the Fed Rules and Inflates
  25. What Can Be Done?