Jody posted a video about the history of the Federal Reserve and though it was over 3 hours long I watch it. The theme of that video was that EVERY recession and depression since the mid 1800's has been deliberately contrived by bankers and that the Federal Reserve (formed in 1913 along with the income tax) is the key manipulator and orchestrator. The game plan is to periodically crash the economy (they call this a natural "business cycle") by freezing lending, crash the stock market with fear; force families and small businesses to give up property at pennies on the dollar, buy up the "bargins"; consolidate money including gold (Fort Knotts may be empty according to this theory); start wars if necessary because war is the most lucrative investments for bankers because they can lend to both sides; finally control the word economy as a shadow (sometimes called invisible) government.
Wow! what a nice plan.

Now a few presidents like Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln saw the danger and issued (in Lincoln's time) "Greenbacks" which is a note printed and honored directly from the US treasury. It is inherently stable- but the bankers were left out so in 1913 most of Congress was in recess, a technicality keep congress officially open and two congressmen secretly pass a bill that formed the perverse Federal Reserve which let bankers control "Our" money and to parcel it out and actually earn interest by a system called "fractional" banking. It virtual skims off 90% of the value of our money and it keeps the US government in perpetual debt- yes it makes it IMPOSSIBLE for the US government to be debt free. We got trouble in River city folks and it's deep and wide.