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

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by Murray N. Rothbard


  “New Era” of permanent prosperity, 420, 449–50

  New York Bible class, 266

  New York Chamber of Commerce, 234, 236, 238, 251, 254

  New York Herald-Tribune, 270n

  New York Journal of Commerce, 204, 277, 277n–78n, 426, 449, 258

  New York Stock Exchange, 88, 271, 312, 321, 326–28, 418, 423

  New York Times, 339, 420, 482–83, 486n

  Newsweek, 300n, 307

  Niemeyer, Otto, 364–65, 367, 382n, 391, 399n, 442

  Noble, Edward J., 301n

  Norman, Montagu “Monty,” 272, 360, 365–430, 399n–400n

  Bank for International Settlements and, 272, 427

  background of, 373

  betrayal of France, 429–30

  Britain’s major financial force, 442

  Genoa Conference and, 391–92

  House of Morgan and, 374–78

  powerful impact on international monetary policy, 375–76, 384, 409–12, 421, 423, 429

  Strong and, 373, 397, 412, 416, 444–46, 444n

  Norris, George, 290

  North American Review, 211

  O

  Ocean Herald, 191

  Olson, James Stuart, 288n

  “Open door” policy, 345, 469, 471, 476, 478

  Open market purchases, 202, 207, 275, 294–95, 336, 375n

  Orr, Alexander E., 191, 193

  Ottawa Agreements of 1932, 478

  Overstreet, Jesse, 201

  P

  Page, Walter Hines, 416, 416n, 445

  Palyi, Melchior, 362n

  Panic of 1819, 76–80, 80n, 90–91

  Panic of 1837, 95, 98–99, 121

  Panic of 1857, 113, 121

  Panic of 1873, 134, 141, 150, 153–56

  Panic of 1893, 168–69, 169n, 176

  Panic of 1907, 240–42

  launch of drive for central bank, 240

  “Parallel standard,” 109–11

  Party system transformation of 1896, 169–79

  Patterson, C. Stuart, 191, 194, 252, 254

  Paul, Ron, 47

  Payne, Henry C., 192–93

  Peabody, George Foster, 192–93

  Peake, Hayden, 340

  Pearson, Frank A., 455

  Pecora, Ferdinand, 312, 314–15, 323, 325n, 330

  Pecora–U.S. Senate Banking and Currency Committee, 310–312, 311n, 314–15, 316n, 320

  Peek, George, 471

  Pendleton, George H., 150

  Pendleton Plan, 150–51

  Perkins, Charles E., 199

  Perkins, Frances, 300n

  Perrin, John, 255

  Philippe, Raymont, 412n

  Pierce, E.A., 327

  Pietism, pietists, 172–78, 174n–76n

  branches of, 172n–73n

  creed, 172–73

  impetus for party system transformation, 172

  “Protestantizing society,” 175

  Pigou, Arthur Cecil, 360

  Pillsbury, C.A., 198

  Plehn, Carl C., 224n

  Poincaré, Raymond, 407–08, 411

  Political Science Quarterly, 214

  Polk, James K., 91

  Pollak Foundation for Economic Research, 273

  Pomerene, Atlee, 295

  Pope, Alfred A., 198

  Populists, 36, 177–78, 188–89

  Porter, Horace, 156

  Positivist approach to economic history, 7, 9–13, 32–36, 35n, 39

  Potter, William, 317

  Pratt, Sereno S., 244

  Praxeology, 7, 11, 13–14, 25–26, 33–34, 35n, 40

  Price controls, 60, 103, 281, 447

  Productivity, falling prices due to, 395

  Progressive Era, 29–30, 179, 183, 186, 216, 264, 314

  Progressive Party, 179, 314

  Property rights, private, 74–76, 79, 91

  Proto-monetarist, position of, 95

  Public Utility Holding Act (PUHA), 330

  Pullman Company, 191, 207

  Purves, Alexander, 208

  Purchasing Power, 15, 22, 25–26, 175, 209, 383, 389, 393–94, 396, 411, 454, 465

  Putnam, George Haven, 200n

  Q

  Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 42, 183n

  Quesnay, Pierre, 399n

  R

  Raguet, Condy, 82, 91

  Railroads

  Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, 199, 239, 247n

  Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, 454

  Birmingham Railroad, 194

  Camden and Amboy Railroad, 153

  Erie Railroad, 207n

  Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company, 265

  Missouri Pacific Railroad, 195, 292

  Morris and Essex Railroad, 153

  New York Central Railroad, 194, 207, 217, 265, 372

  Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, 153

  Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railroad, 191

  Rand, James H., 298, 304, 448

  Raskob, John J., 311n, 313

  Recession

  always follows boom, 187, 272, 281, 355, 361

  bank credit increased in, 197, 201, 207

  colonial era, 55, 65, 100

  of 1907, 240

  of 1920–21, 272–73, 281, 283, 358–61, 379, 395

  of 1929–31, 272–74, 402, 424–25

  recoveries from, 425

  Reconstruction Finance Corporatiion (RFC), 288–95, 288n

  Rediscount rate, 414, 419, 423, 426

  Reed, David A., 457

  Reform of the Currency, 250–51

  Remington Rand Company, 298, 448, 454

  Republican Party

  party of great moral idea, 174

  upheaval of, 175–76

  state, changing role in, 172–74

  ongoing transformation, 170–71 See also Pietism

  Resumption Act of January 1875, 151

  Review of Reviews, 216

  Reynolds, Arthur, 237

  Reynolds, George M., 237, 245, 247, 254

  Reynolds, Jackson E., 276, 427

  Ricardo, David, 82, 210

  Ricardian Currency School, 91

  Ridgely, William B., 206, 243

  Riefler, Winfield W., 335

  Rist, Charles, 407

  Roberts, George E., 243, 249, 255

  Robey, Ralph W., 415, 449

  Rockefeller forces, 298, 300–02, 309

  CFR and, 347

  Committee for the Nation, behind-the-scenes role in, 307–08

  Morgan, resentment of, 308

  Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 204–07, 206n, 244, 266, 302n, 309–10

  Rockefeller, John D., Sr., 201, 207

  Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich, 206n

  Rockefeller, William, 207

  Rockoff, Hugh, 113n

  Rogers, James Harvey, 473

  Roman Catholicism, 173–77

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 188, 265, 298–99, 300, 306, 310, 322, 372, 448, 450, 454–56

  abandon gold-coin standard, 297, 301, 303–04, 308, 431, 453–58, 466

  academic economists and, 453

  Atlantic Conference and, 345

  banking influence, 456

  bombshell message, famous, 307

  Committee for the Nation, influence of, 454–55

  early monetary appointments, 301

  Fisher influence and, 453–55, 465–67

  Roosevelt Cabinet, 300

  unscrupulous money changers and, 314

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 188n, 192, 199, 209, 216, 225, 229, 263, 300

  Root, L. Carroll, 195

  Root, Oren, 331n

  Root, Elihu, 221, 228, 243, 251, 267–69, 289, 380, 422

  Röpke, Wilhelm, 487n

  Rosenwald, Julius, 255

  Rosenwald, Lessing J., 298, 454

  Rothbard, Murray N., 7–41

  approach to monetary history, 7, 10–11, 11n, 23–24, 30–34

  theoretical guide, 24–26, 30, 33

  Round Table, 363–64

  Rovensky, John E., 448 />
  Rovere, Richard, 347n

  Royal Commission on Indian Finance and Currency, 389

  Royal Economic Society, 388

  Rueff, Jacques, 487n, 489

  Rueff Plan, 490

  Rumsey, Mary Harriman, 300n–01n

  Rylands, Peter, 363

  S

  Sage, Russel, 150

  Salter, Sir Arthur, 399n–400n, 415, 416n

  Samuel Commission, 405

  Sapiro, Aaron, 285

  Say’s Law, 210

  Sayre, Francis B., 471

  Schacht, Hjalmar, 412–13, 469–71

  Schell, Richard, 149

  Schiff, Jacob, 234–39, 235n, 245, 251, 265

  Schilling, Richard, 177–78

  Schlick, Count of, 49n

  Schröder, J. Henry, 458

  Schultz, William J., 69n

  Schwartz, Anna Jacobson, 34, 154–55, 155n, 164, 166, 169, 278, 336n

  Scott, D.R., 326

  Scott, Thomas A., 149–50

  Scriveners, 56

  Seager, Henry R., 246

  Sears, Roebuck and Company, 255, 298, 454, 456

  Securities Act of 1933, 315, 320, 322

  Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 320–21, 321n, 323–30, 325n, 328n–29n

  Securities Exchange Act of June 1934, 320–27

  Sego Milk Company, 332

  Seligman, Isaac N., 215n, 218

  Seligman, Edwin R.A., 215–16, 215n, 218, 241–42, 246, 250

  Sexauer, Fred H., 298, 454

  Shaw, Dr. Albert, 216

  Shaw, Leslie M., 198–99, 207–08, 234, 236

  Shearman, Thomas, 218

  Shedd, John G., 255

  Shelton, Arthur B., 249

  Sherman, John, 130, 133–35, 145, 151, 157

  National Banking Acts and, 134–35

  Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890, 167–69

  Shoup, Laurence H., 346

  Sibley, Joel, 170

  Siegel, Barry, 187, 265, 368

  Silva, Edward T., 215, 389

  Silver Purchase Act

  of 1878, 159–61

  of 1890, 167–69

  Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory, 339n

  Sloan, Alfred P., 296n

  Smith, Al, 309

  Smith, Vera C., 77n–78n

  Smith, Vivian Hugh, 369–70, 374

  Snowden, Philip, 364

  Snyder, Carl, 420n

  Sound Currency, 196

  South Sea Bubble, 353–54

  Soviet Union, 33

  Spahr, Walter E., 383n–84n

  Spain, 49–50, 53, 65–68, 106–08, 220–21, 226–27

  Spaulding, Elbridge G., 130

  Special Drawing Rights, 488

  Specie, 49–132

  as standard money, 353–54

  payment resumption and trade, 54–55, 85

  payment, suspension of, 74, 75–80, 100, 123, 169, 200, 240

  redemption, cessation of the boom and, 98 See also Gold coin; Money

  Specie Circular, 98–99

  Sprague, Albert A., 198

  Sprague, Oliver M.W., 246, 305–06, 460, 464, 466

  Spring-Rice, Sir Cecil Arthur, 370

  Springfield (Mass.) Republican, 213

  Stabilization Fund, 480–81

  Stable Money Association, 303, 448, 453–54

  Stable Money League, 448

  Stahlman, E.B., 191

  Stamp, Josiah, 447

  Stanard, Edwin O., 191

  Standard and Poor’s, 417–18

  Standard Oil Company, 192, 198, 263, 266n, 296n, 308n, 333n–34n, 379

  Stearns, Frank W., 267, 379, 379n–80n

  Stern, J. David, 457

  Stetson, Francis Lynde, 243, 247n

  Stettinius, Edward, 347, 347n, 477

  Stevens, Thaddeus, 148

  Stewart, Walter W., 420n–21n

  Stigler, George J., 32–34

  Stillman, James, 207, 235

  Stimson, Henry L., 268n, 269, 287, 306, 347, 380n, 422, 472

  Stock market, 271–76, 304, 312–17

  artificial stimulus, 274

  boom, 416–20, 422, 425

  crash of 1929, 272, 417–25

  acceptance program and, 239

  Strakosch, Sir Henry, 391, 399n–400n, 442

  Straus, Isidore, 235

  Strauss, Albert, 236

  Strobel, Edward R., 217

  Strong, Benjamin, 257, 264–66, 269–72, 309, 368–69, 371, 377, 378, 390, 399–400, 412, 415–17, 421, 443

  and England, 376, 413, 414, 416,

  Anglophile policies of, 444

  coup de whiskey, 445

  discount rates, lowering of, 445

  Fed postwar inflationary policy and, 375

  India, gold-coin standard and, 446

  inflation policy, 83, 270–71, 372, 413, 415, 417

  Norman, and, 372–76, 397, 444

  world depression, architect of, 271

  World War I entrance and, 446

  Strong, Reverend Josiah, 214

  Studenski, Paul, 123

  Sunny, B.E., 255

  Swope, Herbert Bayard, 467

  Sybil, Lady, 374

  T

  Taber, Louis J., 298, 454

  Taft, William Howard, 238, 248, 253

  Taft, Robert A., 484, 484n

  Talbert, Joseph T., 237

  Tansill, Charles Callan, 270n, 371n, 469n

  Tariffs

  Carey “gospel” of, 148–49, 149n

  free-market lowering of, 92

  McKinley Tariff Act of 1890, 167

  motive for, 25, 175

  on steel, 24, 29, 147–48, 84

  Taussig, Frank W., 199–200, 203, 246

  Taylor, Frank M., 199–200

  Taylor, Robert S., 195, 201

  Teagle, Walter C., 296n

  Temin, Peter, 35n, 94–95, 99, 103

  Texas Gulf Sulphur Company, 267n, 379n–80n

  “Thaler,” 49n

  Thayer, Martin R., 126n

  Third World countries

  exploitation of, 222

  imposition of gold-exchange standard on, 233, 387–88, 389n

  victims of imperialism, 219

  Thymology, 17–22, 26, 31–33, 40

  Timberlake, Richard H., 42n, 76n, 99n, 351n, 353,

  Times of London, 364, 475, 482

  Today magazine, 300n, 307

  Tollison, Robert D., 31

  Train, George Francis, 149

  Transportation, 78, 88, 120, 191, 197–98, 334, 392, 413

  Trask, Spencer, 194

  Traylor, Melvin A., 302, 309, 456

  Triffin Plan, 490

  Tripartite Monetary Agreement, 344, 432, 468

  Trivoli, George, 119

  Truman, Harry S., 343, 484

  Tucker, Rufus S., 450

  Tullock, Gordon, 51

  U

  U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 255, 281

  U.S. exports and, 474

  U.S. Investor, 210, 210n, 212–14

  U.S. Treasury, 89, 99, 120–27, 135, 142, 157, 161, 206, 284–85, 297, 338, 367, 371, 382, 391, 415, 452, 480

  as central bank, 201–08, 222, 234, 236

  depository, all congressional funds, 63

  financial capital of world, 477

  Independent Treasury System, 104, 207–08

  notes, 75, 76, 83, 89, 167–69 See also Gage, Lyman

  Unemployment, 161, 357, 366–68, 377, 395, 425, 441, 462

  depressed export industries and, 361

  Employment Fund and, 404

  hard money, villain for, 406

  relief, 334

  rational solutions for, rejected, 405

  trade unionism and, 361, 404

  wage rates rigidity and, 400–03

  Union for Sound Money, 190

  United Corporation, 321, 330

  Untermyer, Samuel, 322

  Utah Construction Company, 332n, 333, 333n–34n

  V

  Van Buren, Martin, 92, 104

 
; Van Fenstermaker, J., 71n, 88n–89n

  Vandenberg, Arthur, 457

  Vanderlip, Frank A., 204, 207, 235–36, 238–43, 246, 251, 253, 298, 454

  Vassar-Smith Committee on Financial Facilities in 1918, 360

  Versailles, 450

  Vietnam War-era, 14–15

  Virginia School, 31

  Vissering, G., 429

  W

  Wade, Festus J., 244

  Wages, 51, 132, 161–62, 361, 367, 403–05, 426, 457

  Wall Street Journal, 242, 244, 248–49

  Wallace, Henry C., 285

  Wallace, Henry Agard, 448

  Wallace’s Farmer, 448

  War

  debt holders benefitted, 84

  finance and, 73

  monetizing debt, financing thru, 351

  War(s)

  Civil War, 122

  economic impact of, 130–31

  impact on U.S. banking system, 122, 144, 147–48, 153

  French and Indian War, 54

  King George’s War, 54

  of 1812, 72–73, 75, 84, 92, 122

  of 1898, theory of imperialism, 211

  Revolutionary War finance, 59–62

  Spanish-American War, 11, 211–12, 216, 220–21, 389

  World War I, 227, 245, 270–71, 279–84, 290, 299, 311, 346, 351, 356–58, 371, 384, 407, 410–11, 446

  World War II, 475, 478

  War collectivism, 280–81

  War Finance Corporation (WFC), 280–86, 288–90

 

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