Author: F. W. TaussigPublisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 0894990160
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The Silver Situation in the United States
Author: F. W. TaussigPublisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 0894990160
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The Story of Silver
Author: William L. SilberPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691208697
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world, Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt, during the 1970s altered the course of American and world history. FDR pumped up the price of silver to help jump start the U.S. economy during the Great Depression, but this move weakened China, which was then on the silver standard, and facilitated Japan's rise to power before World War II. Bunker Hunt went on a silver-buying spree during the 1970s to protect himself against inflation and triggered a financial crisis that left him bankrupt. Silver has been the preferred shelter against government defaults, political instability, and inflation for most people in the world because it is cheaper than gold. The white metal has been the place to hide when conventional investments sour, but it has also seduced sophisticated investors throughout the ages like a siren. This book explains how powerful figures, up to and including Warren Buffett, have come under silver's thrall, and how its history guides economic and political decisions in the twenty-first century"--Publisher's description
Brief History of the Gold Standard (GS) in the United States
Author: Craig K. ElwellPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 143798889X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
The U.S. monetary system is based on paper money backed by the full faith and credit of the fed. gov't. The currency is neither valued in, backed by, nor officially convertible into gold or silver. Through much of its history, however, the U.S. was on a metallic standard of one sort or another. On occasion, there are calls to return to such a system. Such calls are usually accompanied by claims that gold or silver backing has provided considerable economic benefits in the past. This report reviews the history of the GS in the U.S. It clarifies the dates during which the GS was used, the type of GS in operation at the various times, and the statutory changes used to alter the GS and eventually end it. It is not a discussion of the merits of the GS. A print on demand oub.
China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937
Author: Austin DeanPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501752421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In the late nineteenth century, as much of the world adopted some variant of the gold standard, China remained the most populous country still using silver. Yet China had no unified national currency; there was not one monetary standard but many. Silver coins circulated alongside chunks of silver and every transaction became an "encounter of wits." China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937 focuses on how officials, policy makers, bankers, merchants, academics, and journalists in China and around the world answered a simple question: how should China change its monetary system? Far from a narrow, technical issue, Chinese monetary reform is a dramatic story full of political revolutions, economic depressions, chance, and contingency. As different governments in China attempted to create a unified monetary standard in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the United States, England, and Japan tried to shape the direction of Chinese monetary reform for their own benefit. Austin Dean argues convincingly that the Silver Era in world history ended owing to the interaction of imperial competition in East Asia and the state-building projects of different governments in China. When the Nationalist government of China went off the silver standard in 1935, it marked a key moment not just in Chinese history but in world history.
The United States Early Silver Dollars, 1794 to 1803
Author: Jules ReiverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Detailed year-by-year coverage; comprehensive guide to all known varieties and die states.
The Silver Situation in the United States
Author: Frank William TaussigPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Currency question
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Gilded Age
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Coinage Laws of the United States, 1792 to 1894, with an Appendix of Statistics Relating to Coins and Currency
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on FinancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury ... Relative to Banking Statistics of State Banks, Banking Institutions, Savings Banks and National Banks, Etc., from the Periods of 1830 and 1863, Respectively
Author: United States. Department of the TreasuryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banking statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
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