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Bullion and Foreign Exchanges theoretically and practically considered

May 22, 2010

BULLION and Foreign Exchanges are subjects generally comprised among the contents of higher class books on Practical Arithmetic; though, of course, the consideration given in works of the kind to these interesting topics is necessarily only limited and superficial, at the best. There are several publications on Banking and Commercial Business which go somewhat...

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Banking Reform in the United States – a Series of Proposals, including a Central Bank of limited scope

May 22, 2010

THE four article in this volume were published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics for May 1900, February, August and November 1010. Only the first of them has been subjected to any very considerable revision. Matters which are considered more in d( tail in the subsequent papers have been omitted, corrections and additions have...

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A Financial Chapter in the History of Bombay City

May 18, 2010

In 1897 the Editor of the Advocate of India invited me to contribute to its columns a narrative of the rise, growth and collapse of that colossal speculation popularly known in Bombay as the ” share mania,” a mania which in its ultimate consequences was more disastrous than either the South Sea Bubble Scheme,...

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The Principles of Banking, Its Utility and Economy; with Remarks on the Working and Management of the Bank of England by Thomson Hankey

April 19, 2010

Every note presented at the Bank of England for payment must be immediately paid in gold coin ; but as it was known that the wants of the community in this country were such as to require, for the ordinary trade, from 17 to 20 million pounds of Bank of England Notes to be...

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The Principles and Practice of Banking by William Gilbart

April 19, 2010

THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF BANKING. An eminent historian observes, that ” it is a cruel mortification, in searching for what is instructive in the history of past times, to find that the exploits of conquerors who have desolated the earth, and the freaks of tyrants who have rendered nations unhappy, are recorded with...

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The People’s Money : A Brief Analysis of the Present Position in America by John Wesley De Kay

April 19, 2010

THERE is an increasing feeling throughout the United States that there has developed in recent years a power with which the Government is unable to cope, and which is beyond the control of the public. The steps by which this power has been centred in the hands of a few men are little known...

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The Financial and Commercial Crisis Considered

April 19, 2010

The recurrence at the present time of one of those visitations of commercial and financial distress of which I have, during a long life, experienced so many, has once more forced upon the consideration of Parliament and the public the interminable subject of banking and circulation. Whatever may be the variance of opinions on...

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The Business Man and His Bank by William Henry Kniffin

April 19, 2010

PREFACE The man who stands before the counter screen of a bank looks at a piece of complicated yet smooth working machinery that is to him a deep mystery. He admires but does not understand it. He knows that the receiving teller takes his deposit and the paying teller cashes his check. When he...

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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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The Theory and Practice of Banking Vol 1 by Henry Dunning Macleod

April 5, 2010

INTRODUCTION THE following work is an attempt to explain, in as clear and simple language as possible, the elementary principles of Currency and Banking, their progressive development in practice, and the laws at present affecting them. Many of the works already existing on these subjects are excellent in several respects, and contain much valuable...

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The Theory and Practice of Banking Vol 2 by Henry Dunning Macleod

April 5, 2010

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Views on the Currency by Thomas Joplin

April 5, 2010

PREFACE THE principles of the following Work have appeared in former publications, but are more fully developed in this. Those publications have not been generally read, but were not, perhaps, without their effect. They at least have furnished the sub-stratum of more than one popular essay: if any writings on subjects of Political Economy...

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The Advantages of the Proposed National Bank of England by Thomas Joplin

March 31, 2010

The invention of Banking; to assist and enlarge the commerce of mankind, has been happily compared with that of arithmetic to extend and expedite their powers of calculation. The utility, therefore, of Banks to a commercial nation like this, need hardly be descanted upon. They are the channels by which remittances of money are...

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The Science of Money and American Finances by Luther Vanhorn Moulton

March 31, 2010

PREFACE The author of the present treatise were more than human did he not experience some slight misgivings upon this, his first introduction, to the reading public. The task he has undertaken is one of no little magnitude, and in its accomplishment he has been often reminded by well-meaning friends as well as ill-disposed...

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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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