Ford's thirteenth and fourteenth chapters constitute his most extended treatment of Jewish financial power. He began with the Rothschild family, which he described as the founders and exemplars of the 'Jewish money power' thesis. Mayer Amschel Rothschild had established his banking house in Frankfurt in the late 18th century and placed his five sons — Amschel Mayer, Salomon Mayer, Nathan Mayer, Carl Mayer, and James (Jakob) Mayer — in Frankfurt, Vienna, London, Naples, and Paris respectively, creating an international banking network that was unprecedented in its geographic scope and its capacity for rapid communication and coordinated action across national boundaries.
Ford cited Nathan Mayer Rothschild's role in the Napoleonic Wars as the paradigmatic example of the Rothschild method. According to the account Ford presented, Nathan had positioned couriers along the route from Waterloo to London and had received news of Napoleon's defeat several hours before it reached official channels. He then used this information advantage to trade British government bonds, first selling to create the impression that Napoleon had won (causing other investors to sell), then buying at the depressed price when in fact the opposite was true, and profiting enormously when the official news of Wellington's victory arrived. Ford acknowledged that this story was disputed and that some historians considered it apocryphal, but he argued that whether or not it was literally true, it accurately illustrated the Rothschild competitive advantage: superior information networks and the willingness to use information asymmetry for financial gain.
Ford devoted considerable space to Jacob Schiff, whom he described as the American successor to the Rothschild tradition — a Jewish financier who used his position at the apex of American investment banking to advance specifically Jewish interests through financial power. Ford cited Schiff's financing of Japanese war bonds during the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) as evidence: Schiff had personally arranged $200 million in bond financing for Japan through a consortium of banks, with the explicit stated motivation of weakening Tsarist Russia in retaliation for Russian pogroms against Jews. Schiff was open about this motivation — he had said publicly that he hoped Japan would 'defeat the enemy of his people.' Ford argued that Schiff had used his position as a prominent American financier to direct American capital toward foreign policy objectives driven by Jewish rather than American interests.
Ford also cited Bernard Baruch's testimony before the Senate Munitions Investigating Committee (the 'Nye Committee'), which had examined the role of Wall Street bankers in America's entry into World War I. Baruch had served as chairman of the War Industries Board during the war, with virtually dictatorial authority over American industrial production. Ford presented Baruch's central wartime role as an example of the pattern he had been documenting throughout: a Jewish financier at the apex of American financial life simultaneously occupying a position of decisive authority in American government, with the ability to direct American economic resources in ways that served both American and specifically Jewish interests.
Ford's treatment of the Federal Reserve System focused on the allegation that the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 had been drafted in a process substantially influenced by Paul Warburg, a partner at Kuhn, Loeb & Company who had emigrated from Germany in 1902. Warburg had been a public and persistent advocate for American banking reform along the lines of the German central banking model, and his detailed proposals were widely acknowledged as having influenced the structure of the Federal Reserve. Ford argued that Warburg's role meant that the American central banking system had been designed by a man whose primary professional relationships and financial interests were international rather than specifically American, and whose firm was part of the same Jewish financial network — connected to the Rothschild banking interests through various relationships — that Ford had been describing throughout the series.
Ford concluded these chapters with what he called the 'power follows the Jew' thesis: that wherever in the world financial and commercial power concentrated, Jewish individuals and institutions would be found at the center of that concentration. Ford argued that this was not the result of conspiracy in the traditional sense — no single document of instruction, no hidden meeting, no explicit plan — but the result of communal solidarity, centuries of commercial experience, preferential networks of mutual support, and what Ford called the 'racial genius' of the Jewish people for finance and trade. Ford stated that he did not consider this a criticism of Jews as individuals but an observation about the systemic results of a particular communal organization interacting with modern capitalism.