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... questions of currency . A bad currency , as experience has only too often shown , inflicts severe calamities on a nation ; loss and ruin , public and private , all history teaches , are the deadly arrows which an ill - constructed ...
... questions of currency . A bad currency , as experience has only too often shown , inflicts severe calamities on a nation ; loss and ruin , public and private , all history teaches , are the deadly arrows which an ill - constructed ...
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... question immediately arises : Why do civilized nations buy this costly metal ? Property is given away for it at all hours : what has led to such a practice ? It is to understand the pursuit of food and clothing , of ornaments for house ...
... question immediately arises : Why do civilized nations buy this costly metal ? Property is given away for it at all hours : what has led to such a practice ? It is to understand the pursuit of food and clothing , of ornaments for house ...
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... question , “ What is a pound ? " The answer , no doubt , is furnished by the Mint , not in value , but in quantity . The Mint replies by setting an arithmetical sum . Given that 20 shillings make a pound and 12 pence a shilling , it de ...
... question , “ What is a pound ? " The answer , no doubt , is furnished by the Mint , not in value , but in quantity . The Mint replies by setting an arithmetical sum . Given that 20 shillings make a pound and 12 pence a shilling , it de ...
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... question - What is the value , the market price , of gold ? How is it to be expressed ? Put in this form , the question admits of no single answer . The market value or price of a sovereign is a hat for the hatter , a pair of shoes for ...
... question - What is the value , the market price , of gold ? How is it to be expressed ? Put in this form , the question admits of no single answer . The market value or price of a sovereign is a hat for the hatter , a pair of shoes for ...
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... question of supreme importance for a clear understanding of currency : the power of dealing with theories of currency , and language used on every side is intimately connected with the question and its answer . How much gold , how many ...
... question of supreme importance for a clear understanding of currency : the power of dealing with theories of currency , and language used on every side is intimately connected with the question and its answer . How much gold , how many ...
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Bank Charter Act Bank of England bank-notes Bank's banker BONAMY PRICE borrowers bought capital cash cheques and bills circulation coin commodity consumed convertible corn Cornhill Library creditor crisis Crown 8vo debtor debts demand Demy 8vo depositors doctrine English fact farmer Fcap fifteen millions France Frontispiece give gold Government Henry Illustrations inconvertible International Scientific Series Issue Department issuer King and Co.'s legal tender lend lent Library of Fiction LL.D loans LOMBARD STREET loss means ment metal money market nation notes obtain paid panic paper currency paper dollar payment Poems Portrait Post 8vo pound procure Prof Professor profit purchase quantity railway rate of discount receive reserve ROBIN GRAY Second Edition securities sell seller shillings Small crown 8vo sold sovereign Stoke Bishop Stopford Brooke suspension thing Third Edition tion tool of exchange trade Translated University of Erlangen vols Volume wealth word worth
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