Posts Tagged ‘ Hyperinflation ’

Adventures in Thrift

February 18, 2010

PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR The incidents, the stores, the organizations and the individuals described in this book are real, not fictitious. At the time that this book goes to press, each one of the societies mentioned is actively engaged in the task of reducing the cost of living for its members. The National Housewives’...

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A Few Facts and Suggestions on Money, Trade, and Banking by J. H. WALKER.

February 11, 2010
A Few Facts and Suggestions on Money, Trade, and Banking by J. H. WALKER.

INTRODUCTION Every man in the community has now the same liberty to make and issue money, that he has to buy, sell, walk, run, lift, or do a dozen other things, — no law hindering him. The only restriction is, that his money shall not be made in imitation of that made by any...

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An Inquiry into the Currency Principle: The Connection of the Currency with Prices and the Expediency of A Separation of Issue From Banking

February 10, 2010
An Inquiry into the Currency Principle: The Connection of the Currency with Prices and the Expediency of A Separation of Issue From Banking

PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR SOME part of the following pages was written immediately after the appearance of the reports of the committee of the House of Commons on Banks of Issue, and the greater part has since been put together without any definite view to publication. The reason which has determined me in now...

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An Inquiry Into The Causes and Modes of the Wealth of Individuals, or, The Principles of Trade and Speculation

February 9, 2010
An Inquiry Into The Causes and Modes of the Wealth of Individuals, or, The Principles of Trade and Speculation

INTRODUCTION. POLITICAL ECONOMY is the science which treats of general or national wealth, general or aggregate as distinguished from individual, as the term Political implies. This science is directed chiefly against, or has reference to the errors of statesmen or legislators, as connected with trade or the industry of mankind ; and, however extensive,...

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Modern Money Mechanics – Federal Reserve

February 9, 2010
Modern Money Mechanics – Federal Reserve

The purpose of this booklet is to describe the basic process of money creation in a “fractional reserve” banking system. The approach taken illustrates the changes in bank balance sheets that occur when deposits in banks change as a result of monetary action by the Federal Reserve System – the central bank of the...

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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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An Outline of the Money Market

December 13, 2009
An Outline of the Money Market

Synopsis 1. The Evolution of the Money Market. 2. The Importance of the Banking Element. 3. The Origin and Development of Banking. 4. Banking and the Bank of England 5. How the Banker Obtains His Funds. 6. How the Banker Uses His Funds. 7. The Bank of England. 8. Management of the Bank of...

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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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Benner’s Prophecies of Future Ups and Downs in Prices by Samuel Benner

May 31, 2009
Benner’s Prophecies of Future Ups and Downs in Prices by Samuel Benner

PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK FUTURE UPS AND DOWNS IN PRICES – WHAT YEARS TO MAKE MONEY ON PIG IRON, HOGS, CORN, AND PROVISIONS There is a time in the price of certain products and commodities;  Which, if taken by men at the advance leads on to fortune; And if taken at...

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Banks and Paper Currency – Their Effects on Society

May 28, 2009

BANKS AND A PAPER CURRENCY – Introduction by the Author of the Book A pamphlet was published at Louisville, Kentucky, with the title ” Elements of a Bank Charter, arranged for the benefit of the public, and safety of the Stockholders.” As the general reasonings on which it was founded, applying to the proposed...

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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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