US Economy

The Banking Octopus & the Silver Question: An American Financial History by F.M Fogg

April 19, 2010

INTRODUCTION This little story, based on fact, represents, though feebly, the relation that exists between the producing classes and the banks of America. The courts, lawyers, and constabulary hold the same relation to the banks they do to the robbers above mentioned. The banks are the great disbursing agencies of the government, and the...

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The Banking & Currency Problem in the United States by Victor Morawetz

April 19, 2010

THE PROBLEM For many years the country has suffered from recurring periods of severe financial stringency. During these periods interest rates have been excessively high, and business men have lost heavily through inability to obtain necessary loans and discounts from the banks. At times wide-spread panic and general suspension of payments by the banks...

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All Classes Productive of National Wealth

February 18, 2010

We should be apt to imagine, that, if any doctrine were thoroughly settled among mankind, it would be that respecting the production of wealth by the various classes. As circulators, men of every class have been, in all ages, employed in the pursuit of it, as the source of income, or the means of...

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A Hundred Years of American Commerce Vol 1

February 18, 2010

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF AMERICAN COMMERCE CONSISTING OF ONE HUNDRED ORIGINAL ARTICLES ON COMMERCIAL TOPICS DESCRIBING THE PRACTICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF TRADE IN THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE PAST CENTURY AND SHOWING THE PRESENT MAGNITUDE OF OUR FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL INSTITUTIONS WITH A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS OF AMERICAN...

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Once Upon A Dime Comic Book- Federal Reserve Bank of New York

February 9, 2010
Once Upon A Dime Comic Book- Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Federal Reserve Bank of New York Presents a fable about the island kingdom of Mazuma and the growth of its economy from barter to a sophisticated modern system, with its own central bank, to illustrate basic concepts of barter, money, banking, and inflation. Please Activate the Full Screen Mode for Better Viewing Pleasure (2nd...

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A Fraudulent Standard by Arthur Kitson

December 13, 2009
A Fraudulent Standard by Arthur Kitson

PREFACE The idea expressed and the conclusions arrived at in this work, are the result of many years of careful thought and study, coupled with practical and varied experience of a very busy in connection with industrial, commercial, and financial affairs, both here and abroad. It is now nearly a quarter of a century,...

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Cause and Cure of Hard Times

May 24, 2009

PREVIEW It is an essential part of the case of the silver men that the country is having “hard times.” The bolters from the Republican convention say, in their manifesto: “Discontent and distress prevail to an extent never before known in the history of the country.” This is an historical assertion. It is distinctly...

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A Financial Chapter in the History of Bombay City

In 1897 the Editor of the Advocate of India invited me to contribute to its columns a narrative of the rise, growth and collapse...

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The New York Stock Exchange; a Discussion of the Business Done, Its Relation to Other Business, To Investment, Speculation and Gambling by H S Martin

FOREWORD The New York Stock Exchange can The be said to have been begun 125 years. Beginning ago 100 years of which it has...

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The Essential Features of Securities by Byron Webber Holt

What Our Problem Is There are available for purchase or sale securities of the widest possible variety, issued by countless corporations, municipalities, states, nations,...

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Twenty-One Years in the Boston Stock Market by Joseph Gregory Martin

PREFATORY REMARKS In the present work the compiler has aimed to furnish a full and reliable history of the several stocks in the Boston...

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The Stock Market Barometer : A Study of Its Forecast Value Based on Charles H. Dow’s Theory of the Price Movement

CYCLES AND STOCK MARKET RECORDS AN English economist whose unaffected humanity always made him remarkably readable, the late William Stanley Jevons, propounded the theory...

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