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... dollar tells every one what it is . Nothing can be more obvious than this fact ; yet how many , even intelligent men , have been puzzled to say what the stamp it bears does for a sovereign . 4. Although any commodity , in principle ...
... dollar tells every one what it is . Nothing can be more obvious than this fact ; yet how many , even intelligent men , have been puzzled to say what the stamp it bears does for a sovereign . 4. Although any commodity , in principle ...
Pagina 23
... dollar or sovereign may settle twenty transactions in a quarter of an hour . In the great West it may remain weeks or months in a farmer's pocket before it can be used . In a nation in which life moves slowly , or buyers or sellers live ...
... dollar or sovereign may settle twenty transactions in a quarter of an hour . In the great West it may remain weeks or months in a farmer's pocket before it can be used . In a nation in which life moves slowly , or buyers or sellers live ...
Pagina 40
... dollar , was money , was most sharply and accurately drawn , and the right of the creditor to the covenanted payment as clearly estab- lished . A bank - note was pronounced not to be pay- ment ; it did not fulfil the contract entered ...
... dollar , was money , was most sharply and accurately drawn , and the right of the creditor to the covenanted payment as clearly estab- lished . A bank - note was pronounced not to be pay- ment ; it did not fulfil the contract entered ...
Pagina 41
... dollar or the piece of paper might be worth in the stores . Nevertheless , though bank - notes are not money , it is hopeless to try to strip them of that title . When the bank - notes are established in public confidence , it is im ...
... dollar or the piece of paper might be worth in the stores . Nevertheless , though bank - notes are not money , it is hopeless to try to strip them of that title . When the bank - notes are established in public confidence , it is im ...
Pagina 79
... dollar or pound to accept these notes as a full discharge of his debt . Upon such a basis the operation of issue becomes feasible . The Government owes interest on a national debt , and purchases supplies of all kinds from traders ...
... dollar or pound to accept these notes as a full discharge of his debt . Upon such a basis the operation of issue becomes feasible . The Government owes interest on a national debt , and purchases supplies of all kinds from traders ...
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