The banking schemes and usury where trademen and bankers from Amsterdam, or Venetian merchants, or Babylonian money changers; the trapezoids, pried on the weak and poor, sucking their necessities dry is certainly not a new thing.

During the 13th - 16th centuries their were competing factors between the merchants and banking cartels of the Templars and Knights Hospitallers, against the Judaic merchants of Venice, Spain and Amsterdam who learned their banking schemes duringm the neo-babylonian period of exile. Many becoming court Jews for the kings of Babylon and emperors for Rome.

The banking schemes were not created by the Rothschilds per say, they perfected them. Similarly, the Templars created the IOU, the marrano bankers perfected them.

Yes, the Rothschilds, the Frankfurt school of new bankers competed against their British counterparts. Eventually, the Rothschilds would take over the Bank of England but in the 19th century these British banks fomented the Civil War aginst the Frankfurt school of bankers. Andrew Jackson who fought the British banks was a Freemason who helped the Rothschilds pervail, his statue is erected in some interesting places in London connected to the Rothschilds.

When the Union won the war, Lincoln sided with the recomstructionists, ie the JP Morgan, Frankfurt shhool of bankers who were part and parcel of the creation of the FED.