"Came across it while researching the economic writings of Ezra Pound, who was apparently influenced by two of the crackpots, Gesell and Douglas."

Was this research fueled by the recent death of Eustace Mullins, who researched the Federal Reserve at Pound's request and secured Pound's release (FDR's political prisoner) from a mental hospital?

"In 1949, while I was visiting Ezra Pound who was a political prisoner at St.
Elizabeth’s Hospital, Washington, D.C. (a Federal institution for the insane),
Dr. Pound asked me if I had ever heard of the Federal Reserve System. I
replied that I had not, as of the age of 25. He then showed me a ten dollar bill
marked "Federal Reserve Note" and asked me if I would do some research
at the Library of Congress on the Federal Reserve System which had issued
this bill. Pound was unable to go to the Library himself, as he was being held
without trial as a political prisoner by the United States government. After
he was denied broadcasting time in the U.S., Dr. Pound broadcast from Italy
in an effort to persuade people of the United States not to enter World War
II. Franklin D. Roosevelt had personally ordered Pound’s indictment,
spurred by the demands of his three personal assistants, Harry Dexter
White, Lauchlin Currie, and Alger Hiss, all of whom were subsequently
identified as being connected with Communist espionage.

...

Although this book in its inception was expected to be a tortuous work on
economic and monetary techniques, it soon developed into a story of such
universal and dramatic appeal that from the outset, Ezra Pound urged me to
write it as a detective story, a genre which was invented by my fellow
Virginian, Edgar Allan Poe. I believe that the continuous circulation of this
book during the past forty years has not only exonerated Ezra Pound for his
much condemned political and monetary statements, but also that it has
been, and will continue to be, the ultimate weapon against the powerful
conspirators who compelled him to serve thirteen and a half years without
trial, as a political prisoner held in an insane asylum a la KGB. His earliest
vindication came when the government agents who represented the
conspirators refused to allow him to testify in his own defense; the second
vindication came in 1958 when these same agents dropped all charges against
him, and he walked out of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, a free man once more. His
third and final vindication is this work, which documents every aspect of his
exposure of the ruthless international financiers to whom Ezra Pound
became but one more victim, doomed to serve years as the Man in the Iron
Mask, because he had dared to alert his fellow-Americans to their furtive
acts of treason against all people of the United States."
- from the Foreword to "The Secrets Of The Federal Reserve" by Eustace Mullins

http://www.archive.org/details/TheSecretsOfTheFederalReserve

"Pound was, in turn, denounced by many as an anti-semite for railing against central banking... all very interesting!"

As has been Mullins.

The World Order: A Study in the Hegemony of Parasitism - Eustace Mullins
http://www.archive.org/details/TheWorldOrder

Biological Jew - Eustace Mullins
http://www.archive.org/details/BiologicalJew