Currency and Credit - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... INDEX. Absorpt1on of gold-- as currency after the War, 358-9. by Germany in 1872-3, 311. Acceptance, acceptor, see Bills of Ex- change. Accepting houses, 105, 213; at a finan- cial centre, 15s. Accommodation bills, 195. Account-- money of, 2, 5, 14, 31, 74, 182, 295, 365-7. unit of, see Monetary unit. Advances, bank, 7,98-9,194; to Govern- ment, 208, 219-22. Advances by Central Bank-- in a crisis, 152-3, 158. in war-time, 220. Advances by Bank of England-- to Government during the Napoleonic Wars, 272, 277-8. to Government during the War of 1914-19, 220. to Pitt's Government, 256-7, 258-9. Advances of exchequer bills-- during crisis of 1793, 256. during crisis of 1811, 272. Agadir crisis, 1911, 219. Agricultural products-- credit requirements of dealers in, 123. effect of a crisis on, 138 (see also Harvest, Famine). America, see United States. America, Latin-- paper money current in, 344. silver production of, 305. speculative trade with, in 1810, 271, 353- Americans, paper money invented by, 305. Amiens, Treaty of, 270. Amsterdam-- Bank of, 178, 192, 201, 288. exchanges on, before and after recoin- age of 1696, 292, 298. as financial centre, 267, 291 (see also Holland). Antwerp-- exchanges on, during Tudor debase- ment, 284, 287. as financial centre, 284. Argentina-- ■peculation in, leads up to Baring crisis, 1890, 316-17. utilisation of gold exchange standard by, 120. Assignate, French, 176, 233-54, 261, 355- Assignats, French-- called 1'Argent de Paris, 246. effect of, on French coinage, 300-1. speculation in, 246, 254. total issue of, 252. Assignment of debts, 4, 99, 100, 186, 376- Australian gold discoveries, 175, 307. Austria- H ungary-- crisis of 1873, 312, 323. currency, effect of wars of 1859,1864, and 1866 on, 322-3....