Many years ago, went out and got a degree in banking & finance.
I had already read a lot of the books by Ron Chernow on tycoons/banks. Started to piece all this stuff together. Figured out that the old money trusts had simply re-organized & consolidated under the Fed. The money trusts of course were connected back to London.

They first got their guy Ulysis Grant to de-monetize silver...gold could only be money and [they] held most of the gold supply. [They] used this power to usher in banking panics, then to usher in the Fed.

Everything from this point on (gold confiscation, world wars, decoupling dollar from gold index, etc.) was just another stepping stone toward further consolidation.

[They] kept consolidating family interests/ private trusts (non profits) leading up to what you have today...Black Rock, Vanguard, et al controlling everything (globally).