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Sources on 1887 Manuscript Predicting Financial Crashes Sought

A Victorian-era manuscript from 1887 that predicted/planned our modern financial collapse? Looking for sources & parallels. Fellow researchers, I need to run something by you that's been nagging at me. I've been down a rabbit hole of pre-20th century financial occultism (bear with me) and keep hitting a wall with a specific document. It's referred to in some circles as the"1887 Memorandum"or"The Speculator's Vade Mecum."Supposedly authored by a consortium of London bankers, commodity traders, and... oddly... early eugenicists. It wasn't a public pamphlet, but a privately circulated, leather-bound manuscript for "members of the club." The core thesis, from what fragments I've pieced together from citations in later works, was terrifyingly modern:that industrial capitalism was inherently unstable and would produce catastrophic boom/bust cycles, but that these cycles could not only be predicted—they could beorchestratedand harvested.It allegedly contained not just economic theory, but a kind of social alchemy. It mapped how to: Use control of media (the press of the day) to shift public sentiment from irrational exuberance to blind panic. Time the deliberate triggering of credit crunches to consolidate assets into fewer hands after the collapse. Use colonial resource extraction to create artificial scarcity in the metropole, driving up prices and profits. The most chilling part? Some analysts who claim to have seen secondary sources say it contained along-wave timelinepredicting periods of major instability. The dates align suspiciously well with 1929, 1973, 2008... and it supposedly marked the period we're in now (2020s-2030s) as the "Grand Liquidation" or "Final Harvest," where the debt-based system hits its mathematical limit. I can't find the original. It's not in the British Library's public catalog under any obvious name. The few books that cite it are themselves obscure and out of print. My questions to you: Has anyone here ever encountered solid references to an "1887 Plan" or manuscript related to cyclical economic crashes?Any names of authors, publishing houses, or secret societies linked to it? Does this concept connect to any better-documented conspiracy theories (e.g., the "Chicago Plan," the "Bankers' Conspiracy" of the 19th century)? Is this just a retroactive myth, a "prophecy" constructed after the fact to explain 2008, or is there a genuine Victorian document that laid out a playbook for financial crisis capitalism? This feels bigger than the usual Rothschild/Rockefeller chatter. This would be the original source code, the philosophical and operational blueprint. I found a dense, footnoted analysis trying to reverse-engineer this manuscript's possible contents on a niche research hub . It's a deep dive, but it treats this as a historical detective case, not just a meme. If this document is real, it's not just history. It's the operating manual they're still using.
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