That there were books written about similar topics more that a century ago.

My favorite one is US money vs corporate currency by Alfred Owen Crozier. This american lawyer wrote the best case against the Federal Reserve. The book is about the Aldrich plan, the original bill of the FED. It was published in 1912, one year before the FED was created. It predicted the great depression, world wars and the confiscation of gold.

Prophetic!