A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II

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Title Page Contents Introduction by Joseph T. Salerno Part 1: A History of Money and Banking in the United States before the Twentieth Century Shilling and Dollar Manipulations Government Paper Money Private Bank Notes Revolutionary War Finance The Bank of North America The United States: Bimetallic Coinage The First Bank of the United States: 1791-1811 The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath The Second Bank of the United States, 1816-1833 The Jacksonian Movement and the Bank War The Jacksonians and the Coinage Legislation of 1834 Decentralized Banking form the 1830s to the Civil War A Free-Market "Central Bank" A False Start Operation Begins The Country Banks Resist Suffolk's Stabillizing Effects The Suffolk Difference The Suffolk's Demise The Civil War Greenbacks The Public Debt and the Natinal Banking System The Post-Civil War Era: 1865-1879 The Gold Standard Era with the National Banking System, 1879-1913 Prices, Wages, adn Real Wages Interest Rates A Burst in Productivity Capital Formation 1896: The Transformation of the American Party System Part 2: The Origins of the Federal Reserve The Progressive Movement Unhappiness with the National Banking System The Beginnings fo the "Reform" Movement: The Indianapolis Monetary Convention The Gold Standard Act of 1900 and After Charles A. Conant, Suprlus Capital, and Economic Imperialism Conant, Monetary Imperialism, and the Gold-Exchange Standard Jacob Schiff Ignites the Drive for a Central Bank The Panic of 1907 and Mobilization for a Central Bank The Final Phase: Coping with the Democratic Ascendancy Conclusion Part 3: From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the Financial Elites The Early Fed, 1914-1928: The Morgan Years The Hoover Fed: Harrison and Young The Advent of Eugene Meyer, Jr. Meyer in the Hoover Administration The New Deal: Going Off Gold Banking and Financial Legislation: 1933-1935 Marriner S. Eccles and the Banking Act of 1935 Epilogue: Return of the Morgans Part 4: The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years The Classical Gold Standard Britain Faces the Postwar World Return to Gold at $4. 86: The Cunliffe Committee adn After American Support for the Return to Gold at $4.86: The Morgan Connection The Establishment of the New Gold Standard of the 1920s Bullion, Not Coin The Gold-Exchange Standard, Not Gold The Gold-Exchange Standard in Operation: 1926-1929 Depression and the End of the Gold-Sterling-Exchange Standard: 1929-1931 Epilogue Part 5: The New Deal and the International Monetary System The Background of the 1920s The First New Deal: Dollar Nationalism The Second New Deal: The Dollar Triumphant Epilogue Index