Banking and financial conspiracies
Money and its institutions draw suspicion because so much of the system is genuinely opaque. These files gather the theories about who really controls it, and sort them honestly. Some describe proven scandals, such as the banks that colluded to rig the LIBOR benchmark behind hundreds of trillions in loans. Others are debunked tropes, including the antisemitic myth of a Rothschild family secretly ruling world finance, named here as the hoax it is. The task is to keep the documented manipulation and the manufactured cabal firmly apart.
Reference: Wikipedia
Global banks rigged LIBOR, the benchmark interest rate behind hundreds of trillions in loans and derivatives
LIBOR, the London Interbank Offered Rate, was for decades the most important number in finance: a daily benchmark, assembled from what a panel of large banks said it would cost them to borrow, that set the price of everything from corporate loans and mortgages to interest-rate derivatives with a notional value estimated in the hundreds of trillions of dollars. Beginning in the mid-2000s, traders at some of those banks learned they could nudge the number their own firms submitted, and lean on submitters at rival banks, to make their derivatives positions pay. During the 2008 financial crisis a second scheme ran alongside the first: banks lowballed their submissions so they would not look weak to the market. Barclays broke the story open in June 2012 with a roughly $450 million settlement, its chief executive resigned within days, and a cascade of penalties followed: UBS, RBS, Rabobank and Deutsche Bank among them, with total fines exceeding $9 billion. A handful of traders were criminally convicted, though the UK Supreme Court quashed several of those convictions in 2025 on a legal technicality. LIBOR itself was reformed after the Wheatley Review and then phased out entirely between 2021 and 2023. On the claim that the benchmark was deliberately manipulated, the verdict is substantiated.
Read the case file →Central bank digital currencies are a coordinated plan to abolish cash, surveil every transaction, and let the state freeze or program your money
Central bank digital currencies are real. China is running the world's largest digital-yuan pilot, the European Central Bank is preparing a digital euro, and dozens of other central banks are studying the idea. So is the underlying worry: a digital form of state money could, if built carelessly, record every transaction, be switched off for individuals, or be programmed to expire or restrict what it buys. That genuine design question is the seed of a much larger claim: that CBDCs are a single, coordinated plot to abolish cash and impose a social-credit system of total control. The surveillance risk is documented and unsettled. The coordinated-tyranny plot is not, and the halting, openly argued, frequently abandoned real-world record cuts against it.
Read the case file →Gold and silver prices are deliberately suppressed by bullion banks and Western central banks to defend fiat currency and crush leveraged long investors
In the second week of July 2026, the metals that had spent a year setting records went into free fall. Gold fell from roughly $4,150 to about $4,000 an ounce; silver dropped from around $63 to $58, described in the coverage as its worst single stretch since 1980. For a large community of precious-metals investors, a move that violent was not a market. It was a takedown: proof that bullion banks and Western central banks periodically slam prices to defend paper money and wipe out leveraged longs. The suspicion is not baseless. Real traders really have been convicted of rigging these markets. What has never been shown is the larger thing the theory needs: a permanent, coordinated scheme to hold gold and silver down by design.
Read the case file →The Federal Reserve is a privately owned bank run by a secret cabal that engineers inflation, booms, and busts to enrich insiders
In November 1910, a United States senator and a handful of the most powerful bankers in the country boarded a private railcar under assumed names, traveled to a secluded island off Georgia, and drafted the blueprint for what became the Federal Reserve. That meeting really was secret, and the participants denied it for decades. That real secrecy is the seed from which a much larger theory grows: that the Fed is a privately owned bank, controlled by an elite cabal, deliberately manufacturing inflation, booms, busts, and debt to enrich insiders and quietly rule the country. The secret meeting is documented. The cabal is not.
Read the case file →BlackRock and Vanguard secretly own nearly every major company and covertly rule the economy, media, and governments
Two asset managers keep turning up at the top of nearly every list of a big company's largest shareholders: BlackRock and Vanguard. A popular claim takes that real pattern and runs: the two firms secretly own almost everything and quietly rule the economy, the media, and governments as a hidden cabal. The scale is real, and the concentration is a legitimate subject of debate among economists and regulators. The cabal is not. Most of the money is not theirs; it belongs to the millions of pensioners and ordinary investors whose index funds they run.
Read the case file →The World Economic Forum's 'Great Reset' is a covert plan to abolish private property and impose a global authoritarian government
In June 2020, with the world locked down, the World Economic Forum announced an initiative it called the Great Reset: a call to rebuild the post-pandemic economy along greener, fairer lines. The name was ominous, the language was vague and grand, and it came from an annual gathering of billionaires and heads of state at Davos. Within months a darker reading had taken hold: that the Reset was a covert plan by a global elite to use COVID and climate to abolish private property, end capitalism and national sovereignty, and impose an authoritarian world government. The initiative is real. The book is real. The slogan is real. The plot is not something the evidence can support.
Read the case file →The true identity of Bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, is known and being deliberately concealed
In late 2008 a person or group writing under the name Satoshi Nakamoto published a nine-page paper describing Bitcoin, released the first software a few weeks later, and mined the network's founding block. Within about two years they handed off the project and disappeared, leaving behind roughly a million bitcoin that have never moved. Their real identity has never been established. Around that void grew a specific claim: that Satoshi's identity is in fact known, and that powerful interests, or Satoshi themselves, are deliberately keeping it secret. This case file separates the genuine, unsolved mystery from that stronger framing. The anonymity is real and consequential; the evidence for an orchestrated cover-up is not.
Read the case file →The Rothschild family is a secret Jewish cabal that controls the world's money, central banks, wars, and governments
Few surnames carry more conspiratorial freight than Rothschild. The theory holds that this one Jewish family is a secret cabal that owns the world's central banks, engineered wars and revolutions for profit, controls the Federal Reserve, and pulls the strings of governments everywhere. This file separates the real from the fabricated. The Rothschilds were a genuinely powerful banking dynasty who, for much of the 1800s, held the largest private fortune in the world and financed governments across Europe. That is history. The cabal is not: fact-checkers and historians have systematically refuted the central-bank ownership claims, the fake-Waterloo-news fortune, and the notion that the family secretly runs global finance today. The framework traces to an 1846 antisemitic pamphlet and to a much older libel about Jews and money. Rated as a conspiracy theory, it is debunked, and it is antisemitic by design.
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