You were there so your rational comes from the real truth of events? I suspect after all has been said between us that you are very touchy for whatever reasons about this subject. My university science education and nearly 90 years of living including responsible public service don’t encourage ‘flimsy evidence or magical thinking’. Neither does such make me squeamish about honest, no-ax-to-grind debate.
And were you there? I didn’t think so. That makes us even. Funny how that argument cuts both ways.
The “touchiness” is nothing more than my impatience with conspiracy thinking. If you have a science education then you have little excuse for wandering in those swamps. There’s plenty of writing on the Fed and it’s origins that don’t resort to nonsense:
http://eh.net/?s=federal+reserve