Institute of American Economics

The Institute of American Economics based in Chicago and formerly known as the Midwest Monetary Federation was a nationalist think-tank headed by Ralph Keeling and his aid Willis Overholser. Two of the incorporators of the Institute, Otto Brennemann and Donald McDaniel, were indicted for sedition but never stood trial.

Its predecessor the Midwest Monetary Federation once employed the leading New York American nationalist Joe McWilliams who was the principal defendant in the Great Sedition Trial of 1944 in Washington DC.

The Institute published Ralph Keeling's 1947 book Gruesome Harvest which was subtitled The Costly Attempt To Exterminate The People of Germany.