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Excerpt from The Gold Room: And the New York Stock Exchange and Clearing House For nearly a fortnight after the New York banks suspended specie payments, on the 31st of December, 1861, there was no regular gold market. The transactions in the precious metals had been confined to the counters of the dealers in bullion and uncurrent money, who asked for it a small but gradually advancing premium. The first formal dealings in gold took place in Wall street - or rather in William street - on Monday the 13th of January, 1862, and all the transactions on that day were at 103. The existence of the New York Gold Room practically began at that date - although the Gold Exchange was not organized until...
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1879.
Central bankers have enjoyed great power and autonomy. They have cooperated to construct and preserve towering structures of debt, reshaping relations of power and ownership around the world. In Central Banks and Gold, Simon James Bytheway and Mark Metzler explore how this financialized form of globalism first took shape a century ago.
**USA Today bestseller and Wall Street Journal business bestseller** They say John Maynard Keynes called gold a "barbarous relic." They say there isn’t enough gold to support finance and commerce. They say the gold supply can’t increase fast enough to support world growth. They’re wrong. In this bold manifesto, bestselling author and economic commentator James Rickards steps forward to defend gold—as both an irreplaceable store of wealth and a standard for currency. Global political instability and market volatility are on the rise. Gold, always a prudent asset to own, has become the single most important wealth preservation tool for banks and individuals alike. Rickards draws on...
Laura Lonshein Ludwig: poet, recipient of four New York State Councilfor the Arts Grants, listed in Who's Who in the World in 2004for her work as a screenwriter, satirist, poet, actress, and director. Laurahas performed on stages across the nation, on radio, TV, and in poetryvenues. Regional editor for upstate New York for Medicinal PurposesLiterary Review, previously the staff assistant for the New Press LiteraryQuarterly, and a producer with the Museum of Sound Recording,Laura's plays and poetry can be heard on shows created by Teachersand Writers Collaborative, WNYE, The Light Show (WBAI 99.5 FM),Earth Bird, Channel 57, MNN. Laura's poetry can be heard on the JoeFranklin's Memory Lane rad...
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