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 principal...
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The Banking Octopus & the Silver Question: An American Financial History by F.M Fogg
The Banking & Currency Problem in the United States by Victor Morawetz
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
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
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
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.
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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, since I...
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Cause and Cure of Hard Times
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 untrue....
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