Author: William L. Silber
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691208697
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world, Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt, during the 1970s altered the course of American and world history. FDR pumped up the price of silver to help jump start the U.S. economy during the Great Depression, but this move weakened China, which was then on the silver standard, and facilitated Japan's rise to power before World War II. Bunker Hunt went on a silver-buying spree during the 1970s to protect himself against inflation and triggered a financial crisis that left him bankrupt. Silver has been the preferred shelter against government defaults, political instability, and inflation for most people in the world because it is cheaper than gold. The white metal has been the place to hide when conventional investments sour, but it has also seduced sophisticated investors throughout the ages like a siren. This book explains how powerful figures, up to and including Warren Buffett, have come under silver's thrall, and how its history guides economic and political decisions in the twenty-first century"--Publisher's description
The Story of Silver
Author: William L. Silber
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691208697
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world, Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt, during the 1970s altered the course of American and world history. FDR pumped up the price of silver to help jump start the U.S. economy during the Great Depression, but this move weakened China, which was then on the silver standard, and facilitated Japan's rise to power before World War II. Bunker Hunt went on a silver-buying spree during the 1970s to protect himself against inflation and triggered a financial crisis that left him bankrupt. Silver has been the preferred shelter against government defaults, political instability, and inflation for most people in the world because it is cheaper than gold. The white metal has been the place to hide when conventional investments sour, but it has also seduced sophisticated investors throughout the ages like a siren. This book explains how powerful figures, up to and including Warren Buffett, have come under silver's thrall, and how its history guides economic and political decisions in the twenty-first century"--Publisher's description
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691208697
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world, Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt, during the 1970s altered the course of American and world history. FDR pumped up the price of silver to help jump start the U.S. economy during the Great Depression, but this move weakened China, which was then on the silver standard, and facilitated Japan's rise to power before World War II. Bunker Hunt went on a silver-buying spree during the 1970s to protect himself against inflation and triggered a financial crisis that left him bankrupt. Silver has been the preferred shelter against government defaults, political instability, and inflation for most people in the world because it is cheaper than gold. The white metal has been the place to hide when conventional investments sour, but it has also seduced sophisticated investors throughout the ages like a siren. This book explains how powerful figures, up to and including Warren Buffett, have come under silver's thrall, and how its history guides economic and political decisions in the twenty-first century"--Publisher's description
The Thirty Years' War on Silver
Author: Adolphus Leigh Fitzgerald
Publisher:
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Category : Money
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Money
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Dollars, Or, What?
Author: William B. Mitchell
Publisher:
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Category : Silver question
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Silver question
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Chapters on Silver, as Published in the Chicago Times in the Summer of 1894
Author: Henry G. Miller
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Category : Silver question
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Silver question
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
"Three Evenings with Silver and Money."
Author: Joseph Weeks Babcock
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Category : Bimetallism
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bimetallism
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Free Silver and the People
Author: Charles McClellan Stevens
Publisher:
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Category : Silver question
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Silver question
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Our Silver Coinage and Its Relation to Debts and the World-wide Depression in Prices
Author: John A. Grier
Publisher:
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Category : Silver question
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Silver question
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
30 Pieces of Silver
Author: Jonas Clark
Publisher: Spirit of Life Ministries
ISBN: 9781886885189
Category : Hypocrisy
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
When Jesus betrayed Jesus he was paid thrity pieces of silver. When he tried to return the money the chief priests said, This money was paid to have a man killed. We can't put it in the temple treasury. They could pay, we learn, for Jesus' murder with the silver, but they couldn't put it back in the church's bank account. That's the murderous spirit of religion that is still lurking about actively seeking to destroy His Church and your life. The religious spirit did not disappear after the resurrection of Jesus.
Publisher: Spirit of Life Ministries
ISBN: 9781886885189
Category : Hypocrisy
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
When Jesus betrayed Jesus he was paid thrity pieces of silver. When he tried to return the money the chief priests said, This money was paid to have a man killed. We can't put it in the temple treasury. They could pay, we learn, for Jesus' murder with the silver, but they couldn't put it back in the church's bank account. That's the murderous spirit of religion that is still lurking about actively seeking to destroy His Church and your life. The religious spirit did not disappear after the resurrection of Jesus.
The Story of Money
Author: Edward Cornelius Towne
Publisher:
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Category : Bimetallism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bimetallism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Conservative
Author: Julius Sterling Morton
Publisher:
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
A journal devoted to the discussion of political, economic, and sociological questions.
Publisher:
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
A journal devoted to the discussion of political, economic, and sociological questions.