Scope and Contents Documents related to Eccles' work on the Commission on Money and Credit, established in 1958 by the Committee for Economic Development as a self-governing body to study the financial and monetary institutions of the United States. Such a study had not been undertaken since 1906 when the Albrich Commission performed a similar task, which eventually led to the establishment of a central banking system-the Federal Reserve-in 1913. The Commission on Money and Credit, financed by its...