I think Farrell would say that what you cite is a part of a longer continuum. He traces economic control back to Babylon, to Byzantium, to Venice, to London, to New York (if I remember it all correctly).
Farrell sees some real continuity to all of this. An ideology about gold and religion and physics which has shaped our world for thousands of years and which is behind virtually all political/military endeavors. There is an elite which does not want to share power.
Some of the big events (1861) are more noticeable. Farrell tries to connect a lot of dots and make the case that it’s all a lot bigger than it appears.
That those in power always want to retain power seems self evident to me, but in 1776, our nation represented an experiment to break the power of the aristocracy.
We continued along this path until the economic aristocrats in this nation decided to protect their interests by preventing the South from trading directly with Europe and thereby bypassing the cut they normally took from such trade.
In the last few years I have come to realize that the civil war was initiated because an independent South represented a threat to the financial interests of the Wealthy power brokers of New England. So long as all the Southern trade with Europe was controlled by influential New Yorkers, all was fine, but when they decided to cut out these influential New Yorkers, that is when a war was needed to stop them.
I didn't know any of this for most of my life, and I have only come to realize it after looking at the economic numbers in the lead up to the civil war.