The Economic Wisdom of Antony C. Sutton’s The War on Gold
2023-12-26
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Antony C. Sutton (1925–2002) was a British economist and economic historian who taught at California State University, Los Angeles. Sutton was also a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
His work focused primarily on the financial and commercial cooperation between major United States banks and corporates (call it “Wall Street interests”) and foreign states that were openly hostile to America.
In his book Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution (1974), Sutton used extensive data and documents to point out that, for instance, Wall Street interest groups financed and promoted Bolshevik Russia.
In Sutton’s book Wall Street and FDR: The True Story of How Franklin D. Roosevelt Colluded with Corporate America (1975), he paints a highly critical picture of the