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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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A Ready Reckoner of the World’s Foreign and Colonial Exchanges of Seven Monetary and Currency Intermediaries

May 21, 2010

PREFACE I earnestly invite the most serious attention, with unbiased mind, of every one especially rulers, statesmen, legislators, and economists — to this analysis of the world’s prices and foreign and colonial exchanges of intermediaries; and to the simple arithmetical demonstration to travellers, traders, and financiers of their effects upon the interchanges of things...

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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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Readings in Money and Banking, Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Philips

March 31, 2010

PREFACE Designed mainly for class, room use in connection with one of the introductory manuals on the subject of Money and Banking or of Money and Currency, this volume, in itself, lays no claim to completeness. Where its use is contemplated the problems of emphasis and proportion are, accordingly, to be solved by the...

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The Principles of Currency and Banking – Being Five Lectures Delivered in Queen’s College

March 31, 2010

PREFACE In the present edition of these Lectures I have corrected some inaccuracies which occurred in the first. I have in many places, where my meaning seemed to be obscure, endeavoured to make it plain ; and I have, in some instances, altered the arrangement of the subjects. I believe that they are thus...

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Principles of Banks and Banking of Money, as Coin and Paper

March 31, 2010

THE metals have so long performed the use of money, that money and coin are become almost synonymous, although in their principles they be quite different. The first thing therefore to be done in treating of money, is, to separate two ideas, which, by being blended .together, have very greatly contributed to throw a...

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Articles On Banking And Currency From The Economist Newspaper By Thomas Joplin

March 15, 2010

INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS. Several members of the Joint-Stock Bank Association having thought that many of the articles of the Economist on Banking and Currency might be usefully re-published, the late Editor has been requested to make a selection of them for that purpose. The Economist was set on foot by Mr. Joplin, with the support...

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A Short History of Paper-Money and Banking in the United States, including an account of provincial and continental paper-money by William M. Gouge

March 8, 2010

Importance of the Subject. In an address to the stockholders of the United States Bank, at their meeting in 1S28, Mr. N. Biddle, the President of that institution, stated, that, of five hundred and forty-four Banks in the United States, one hundred and forty-four had been openly declared bankrupt, and about fifty more had...

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A View of the Banking Question Resulting from Practise and Experience

March 8, 2010

INTRODUCTION. It is alleged by persons of great political influence, that defects very injurious to the community exist in the present system of Banking in England, and manifold evils in its practice ; and that the Legislature is imperatively called upon to remove those defects, by sanctioning some new method of Banking, and introducing...

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A Treatise on Currency and Banking by Condy Raguet

March 8, 2010

PREFACE. THE suspension of specie payments by all the banks in the United States, south of New England, in the year 1814, and of all, with a very few trifling exceptions, in the year 1837, has strongly impressed the public mind with the belief that there is something defective in the present banking system...

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American Banking by Parker Willis

March 6, 2010

A London financial expert soon after the passage of the Federal Reserve Act wrote these significant words :

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The Meaning of Money by Hartley Withers

February 25, 2010

INTRODUCTORY The meaning of Money is not a question of economic theory. The object of this volume is to explain a matter of plain, positive, practical fact, which is very important, very dull and very little understood ; and to do so as clearly as may be, and with the least possible use of...

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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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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

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