HISTORY OF MONEY phần 6 doc

... mails and greatly accelerated the spread of news by the rapid distribution of the daily papers. They popularized seaside and other holiday resorts and improved communications by their use of the ... telegraph. Most of all, the railways took away business from the turnpike roads and the canals until the horse and the canal barge became almost obsolete. More and more p...

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... rather important feature of metaphor. White (19 96) called it ‘bifurcation’ and found its general neglect to be one of the central charges against many philosophical accounts of metaphor. In this I ... formulations is a trade-off between the vocabulary of semantic descent and the vocabulary of qualification. Even more importantly, even the simple case of (d) shows how there can b...

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... drawn from the top right- 160 161 162 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14 264 /14 264 -h/14 264 -h.htm (75 of 147)3/9/20 06 11:03:42 PM The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Practice & Science Of Drawing, ... general character of them all. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14 264 /14 264 -h/14 264 -h.htm (74 of 147)3/9/20 06 11:03:42 PM The Project Gutenberg eBook...

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... ‘,’) SwFile.write(libM[1] + ‘,’) ProductOf=raw_input(‘Enter the name of the software vendor: ‘) SwFile.write(ProductOf + ‘,’) Size=raw_input(‘Enter the size of the software (in MB): ‘) SwFile.write(Size ... address location bar of the browser. The standard methods of HTTP 1.1 that are used to specify the type of user request are GET, POST, HEAD, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, and CONN...

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... was worth 1/20th of an ounce of gold; $20 bought an ounce of gold. Today a dollar is worth 1 /60 0th of an ounce of gold, meaning it takes $60 0 to buy one ounce of gold. The number of dollars created ... today, there is a fair amount of trading by central banks, the dumping of hundreds of tonnes of gold, loaning of gold for the sole purpose that this indi- cator of...

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... was defined as both a weight of 371 .25 grains of pure silver and/or a weight of 24 .75 grains of pure gold—a fixed ratio of 15 grains of silver to 1 grain of gold. 26 Anyone could bring gold and ... Girard, Promoter of the Second Bank of the United States,” Journal of Economic History (November 19 42) : 125 – 32. 57 Annals of Congress, 14th Cong., 1st sess., April...

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... 18 23 $3, 129 $1 ,35 4 43. 3 1824 3, 8 43 1,797 46.8 1825 4,091 1,918 46.9 1826 4,550 2,206 48.5 1827 4, 936 2,1 03 42.6 1828 4,885 2,067 42 .3 1829 4,748 2,078 43. 8 1 830 5,124 2,171 42 .3 1 831 ... 7, 139 3, 464 44.8 1 832 7,1 23 3,060 43. 0 1 833 7,889 2,824 35 .8 Source: Wilfred S. Lake, “The End of the Suffolk System,” Journal of Economic History 7, no. 4 (194...

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... misinterpretation of 144 Klein, Money and the Economy, pp. 145 46 . THE ORIGINS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT T he Federal Reserve Act of December 23, 1913, was part and parcel of the wave of ... 1896. 155 1 54 On silver agitation, the gold reserves, and the panic of 1893, see Friedman and Schwartz, Monetary History, pp. 1 04 33, 705. 155 Ibid., Monetary H...

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... state. 35 The Investor, 19 January 1901, pp. 65 66, cited in Etherington, Theories of Imperialism, p. 17. Also ibid., pp. 7–23. 36 Parrini and Sklar, “New Thinking,” p. 56 5, n. 16. 254 A History of ... Jacobson Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 (Princeton, N.J.: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1963), pp. 148 56 . 224 A History of Money...

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... our history to offer federal leadership in mobilizing the economic resources of the people.” Hoover recalls it was a “program unparalleled in the history of depressions.” 15 The major opponent of ... who wanted government to pour new money into 45 Chernow, House of Morgan, pp. 330– 36, 358–59; Rothbard, America’s Great Depression, p. 289. 284 A History of Money and Bankin...

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... the Banking Act of 1933 began the cru- cial process of stripping away the dominant power of the Fed- eral Reserve Bank of New York (and hence of the Morgans) over the operations of the Federal ... role of John J. McCloy, who was to serve as chairman of the Council of Foreign Relations, of the Rockefeller Foundation, and of the Rockefeller flagship bank, the Chase Nationa...

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... banker. 24 Benjamin Strong was a protégé of the most powerful of the partners of the House of Morgan after Morgan himself, Henry 3 68 A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era ... of Nations at Genoa in the spring of 1922. 390 A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II 52 Eric G. Davis, “R.G. Hawtr...

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... Policies, 192 7– 192 9,” American Economic Review (September 193 5). 96 On the real estate boom of the 192 0s, see Homer Hoyt, “The Effect of Cyclical Fluctuations upon Real Estate Finance,” Journal of Finance ... before leaving office in March 192 9, Coolidge called American prosperity “absolutely sound” and assured everyone that stocks were “cheap at current prices.” 98 , 99 420...

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... Cockayne, Brien, 360 Code of Fair Competition, 328–29n Cohen, Benjamin V., 322, 330 Coinage Act of 1792, 65, 65n, 104 of 1834, 104 –06, 106 n, 110 11 494 A History of Money and Banking in the ... Jay beginnings, 132–35 House of Cooke, 133–35, 145–47, 147n, 156 crash of, 156 enormous political influence of, 134, 145–47, 156 expansion of, 156 482 A History of Mo...

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