Posts Tagged ‘ Paper Currency ’

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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Selected Articles on Central Bank in the US – Debaters’ Handbook Series

February 9, 2010
Selected Articles on Central Bank in the US – Debaters’ Handbook Series

INTRODUCTION With the possible exception of the tariff, no one question has so repeatedly confronted the American people as has the problem of establishing a satisfactory system of currency and banking. It has seemed unusually difficult to devise a plan that contains the fundamental requisites of safety, uniformity, and practicability. The proposal to regulate...

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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 Central Bank by Robert Emmett Ireton

February 9, 2010

Preface By the Author In this little book the writer hopes to place before the reader a concise embodiment of relevant fact and information of educational value in the pending central bank controversy. To eliminate the non-essentials and set down the concrete and practical has been his aim. To him these are: The defects...

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Seventeen Talks On the Banking Question

December 13, 2009
Seventeen Talks On the Banking Question

FOREWORD THIS book is written in the form of a conversation between Uncle Sam and six men of various occupations. It begins with the A, B, C of the subject and by question and answer goes over all the different phases of the subject precisely as you would expect them to arise under such...

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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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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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