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Product: A Short History of Paper-money and Banking in the United States, Including an Account of Provincial and Continental Paper-money. To Which is Prefixed, An Inquiry Into the Principles of the System
Brand: Wentworth Press
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Product: To the Brink of Destruction: America's Rating Agencies and Financial Crisis (Cornell Studies in Money)
Description: To the Brink of Destruction exposes how America's rating agencies helped generate the global financial crisis of 2007 and beyond, surviving and thriving in the aftermath. Despite widespread scrutiny, rating agencies continued to operate on the same business model and wield extraordinary power, exerting extensive influence over public policy.

Timothy J. Sinclair brings the shadowy corners of this story to life by examining congressional testimony, showing how the wheels of accountability turned—and ultimately failed—during the crisis. He asks how and why the agencies risked their lucrative franchise by aligning so closely with a process of financial innovation that came undone during the crisis. What he finds is that key institutions, including the agencies, changed from being judges to being advocates years before the crisis, eliminating a vital safety valve meant to hinder financial excess.

Sinclair's well-researched investigation offers a clear, accessible explanation of structured finance and how it works. To the Brink of Destruction avoids tired accusations, instead providing novel insight into the role rating agencies played in the worst crisis of modern global capitalism.
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Product: A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II
Brand: Audible
Description: In what is sure to become the standard account, Rothbard traces inflations, banking panics, and money meltdowns from the colonial period through the mid-20th century to show how government's systematic war on sound money is the hidden force behind nearly all major economic calamities in American history.

Never has the story of money and banking been told with such rhetorical power and theoretical vigor. You will treasure this volume.

From the introduction by Joseph Salerno:

"Rothbard employs the Misesian approach to economic history consistently and dazzlingly throughout the volume to unravel the causes and consequences of events and institutions ranging over the course of US monetary history, from the colonial times through the New Deal era. One of the important benefits of Rothbard's unique approach is that it naturally leads to an account of the development of the US monetary system in terms of a compelling narrative linking human motives and plans that oftentimes are hidden and devious, leading to outcomes that sometimes are tragic. And one will learn much more about monetary history from reading this exciting story than from poring over reams of statistical analysis. Although its five parts were written separately, this volume presents a relatively integrated narrative, with very little overlap, that sweeps across 300 years of US monetary history."
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Product: Southern Independence: Why War?: The War To Prevent Southern Independence
Description: The "American Civil War" was not a “Civil War” and everyone knows it, yet the use of this misleading and inaccurate designation is almost universal in the English speaking world.Dr. Charles T. Pace has been the first to use a precisely accurate term for the U.S. “Civil War”---the WAR TO PREVENT SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE. In this work he traces how what he calls the Northern Money Party preferred war to allowing the South to get free of its economic domination. He reveals aspects of Abraham Lincoln's life and actions that even Prof. Thomas DiLorenzo missed. Along the way, reflecting on his long career as a family physician in North Carolina, the author describes what was good in a Southern life shared by blacks and whites over many generations.
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Product: Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World In Our Time
Description: TRAGEDY AND HOPE shows the years 1895-1950 as a period of transition from the world dominated by Europe in the nineteenth century to the world of three blocs in the twentieth century. With clarity, perspective, and cumulative impact, Professor Quigley examines the nature of that transition through two world wars and a worldwide economic depression. As an interpretative historian, he tries to show each event in the full complexity of its historical context. The result is a unique work, notable in several ways. It gives a picture of the world in terms of the influence of different cultures and outlooks upon each other; it shows, more completely than in any similar work, the influence of science and technology on human life; and it explains, with unprecedented clarity, how the intricate financial and commercial patterns of the West prior to 1914 influenced the development of today’s world.
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Product: In FED We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic
Description: “Whatever it takes”
That was Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s vow as the worst financial panic in more than fifty years gripped the world and he struggled to avoid the once unthinkable: a repeat of the Great Depression. Brilliant but temperamentally cautious, Bernanke researched and wrote about the causes of the Depression during his career as an academic. Then when thrust into a role as one of the most important people in the world, he was compelled to boldness by circumstances he never anticipated.
The president of the United States can respond instantly to a missile attack with America’s military might, but he cannot respond to a financial crisis with real money unless Congress acts. The Fed chairman can. Bernanke did. Under his leadership the Fed spearheaded the biggest government intervention in more than half a century and effectively became the fourth branch of government, with no direct accountability to the nation’s voters.
Believing that the economic catastrophe of the 1930s was largely the fault of a sluggish and wrongheaded Federal Reserve, Bernanke was determined not to repeat that epic mistake. In this penetrating look inside the most powerful economic institution in the world, David Wessel illuminates its opaque and undemocratic inner workings, while revealing how the Bernanke Fed led the desperate effort to prevent the world’s financial engine from grinding to a halt.
In piecing together the fullest, most authoritative, and alarming picture yet of this decisive moment in our nation’s history, In Fed We Trust answers the most critical questions. Among them:
• What did Bernanke and his team at the Fed know–and what took them by surprise? Which of their actions stretched–or even ripped through–the Fed’s legal authority? Which chilling numbers and indicators made them feel they had no choice?
• What were they thinking at pivotal moments during the race to sell Bear Stearns, the unsuccessful quest to save Lehman Brothers, and the virtual nationalization of AIG, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac? What were they saying to one another when, as Bernanke put it to Wessel: “We came very close to Depression 2.0”?
• How well did Bernanke, former treasury secretary Hank Paulson, and then New York Fed president Tim Geithner perform under intense pressure?
• How did the crisis prompt a reappraisal of the once-impregnable reputation of Alan Greenspan?
In Fed We Trust is a breathtaking and singularly perceptive look at a historic episode in American and global economic history.
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Product: Other People's Money: How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic (How Things Worked)
Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press
John Hopkins University Press
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Product: Engine of Inequality: The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America
Brand: Wiley
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Product: Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History
Brand: Mariner Books
Mariner Books
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Product: Money Mischief (Harvest Book)
Brand: Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Product: Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic (American Business, Politics, and Society)
Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press
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Product: The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
Brand: Belknap Press
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Product: A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States (Studies in Macroeconomic History)
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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Product: Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis
Brand: University of California Press
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Product: Sovereign of the Market: The Money Question in Early America (American Beginnings, 1500-1900)
Brand: University of Chicago Press
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Product: The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History (Oxford Handbooks)
Brand: Oxford University Press
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Product: The Coming Battle: A Complete History of the National Banking Money Power in the United States
Brand: Brand: W.B. Conkey Company
Description: 2000, hardcover edition (this incredible book was originally published in 1899), Walter Publishing, Merlin, OR. 364 pages. This mind-blower of a book concerns the complete history of the national banking money power in the U.S. The years of coverage, 1776 to 1899. You will shake your head in horror as you read what has happened over the years and how and why our national debt was deliberately created by men and women, our elective representatives, who sold us down the river. In this book, there is a direct quote that will warp the mind of anyone who reads it: "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, and the public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of public officialdom should be tempered and controlled." The speaker: Cicero, 63 BC. It doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or Republican. Those who have done this to us are on parade in a book every American should read and absorb. Incredible.
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