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"Americans as a whole view themselves as reasonably prudent and sober people when it comes to matters of money, reflecting the puritan roots of the earliest European settlers. Yet as a community, we also seem to believe that we are entitled to a lifestyle that is well-beyond our current income,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Whalen, R. Christopher, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2011.
Temas:
Debts, Public > United States.
Inflation (Finance) > United States.
Money > United States > History.
Monetary policy > United States > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: Preface.
  • Acknowledgments.
  • Chapter One Free Banking and Private Money.
  • The Bank of the United States.
  • State Debt Defaults.
  • The Age of Andrew Jackson.
  • The Panic of 1837.
  • The Gold Rush.
  • The Rise of Bank Clearinghouses.
  • Chapter Two Lincoln Saves a Nation by Printing Money.
  • The Lincoln Legacy.
  • Financing the War.
  • Salmon Chase and Jay Cooke.
  • Fisk & Gould Profit by Inflation.
  • The Panic of 1873.
  • Gold Convertibility Restored.
  • The Battle Over Silver Money.
  • A Changing American Dream.
  • The Silver Compromise.
  • Chapter Three Robber Barons and the Gilded Age.
  • The Age of Speculation.
  • Republicans Embrace Inflation.
  • The Panic of 1893.
  • The Cross of Silver.
  • The Evangelical Silverites.
  • The Turning Point: 1896.
  • Chapter Four The Rise of the Central Bank.
  • The Trust Buster: Theodore Roosevelt.
  • The Need for a Flexible Currency.
  • The Crisis of 1907.
  • The National Monetary Commission.
  • The Passage of the Federal Reserve Act.
  • Roosevelt, Wilson and the Politics of Reform.
  • Chapter Five War, Boom & Bust.
  • The Fed During WW I.
  • A Return to Republican Normalcy.
  • The Roaring Twenties.
  • The New Era of Debt and Investing.
  • The Bust: Stocks Fall and Tariffs Rise.
  • Chapter Six New Deal to Cold War.
  • FDR and the Era of Broken Precedent.
  • The Seizure of Gold and Dollar Devaluation.
  • Dollar Devaluation Hurt World Trade.
  • The Rise of the Corporate State.
  • Central Planning Arrives in Washington.
  • FDR Embraces Federal Deposit Insurance.
  • The Legacy of FDR.
  • The Fed and The RFC.
  • Corportivist Reform at the Fed.
  • The New Deal Fails, So America Goes to War.
  • Wartime Inflation and Debt Finance.
  • Bretton Woods and Global Inflation.
  • Chapter Seven Debt and Inflation A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats.
  • Federal Revenues Grow.
  • The Fed Regains Independence.
  • The Post-War Economy Soars.
  • The Legacy of War.
  • Cold War, Free Trade.
  • The Dollar's Golden Age.
  • Global Imbalances Return.
  • Richard Nixon's Betrayal.
  • The End of the Dollar Peg.
  • The Return of Sovereign Borrowing.
  • Chapter Eight Leveraging the American Dream.
  • The New Uncertainty.
  • Humphrey Hawkins and Full Employment.
  • Balanced Budgets and Inflation.
  • Volcker's Shock Treatment.
  • The Crisis Managers.
  • The Latin Debt Crisis.
  • Volcker's Apprentice: Gerald Corrigan.
  • Reagan Reappoints Volcker.
  • The Never-ending Crisis.
  • Volcker Exits and Crisis Returns.
  • From Excess to Delusion.
  • The Greenspan Legacy.
  • Chapter Nine Prospects.
  • The Growth Challenge.
  • Growth versus Inflation.
  • Changing Places.
  • Triffin's Dilemma and the Dollar.
  • Notes.
  • About the Author.
  • Index.

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