The Standard of ValueLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 187 pages |
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... closing of the mint against silver , and cannot be corrected or prevented from increasing in their intensity except by the re- storation of silver to its former position in the currency . I contend that if the Double Standard is a ...
... closing of the mint against silver , and cannot be corrected or prevented from increasing in their intensity except by the re- storation of silver to its former position in the currency . I contend that if the Double Standard is a ...
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... closing of the factories against cotton enhanced the cost of all articles of clothing , and made even woollen blankets more scarce and A Review of the Position and Prophecies of the Bimetallists , by Arthur Crump , p . 55. Effingham ...
... closing of the factories against cotton enhanced the cost of all articles of clothing , and made even woollen blankets more scarce and A Review of the Position and Prophecies of the Bimetallists , by Arthur Crump , p . 55. Effingham ...
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... closing of the mints against silver restricts the supply of metal available for the payment of the interest on the National Debt , and leaves less value in the hands of each labouring man than he would retain if the coin in which the ...
... closing of the mints against silver restricts the supply of metal available for the payment of the interest on the National Debt , and leaves less value in the hands of each labouring man than he would retain if the coin in which the ...
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William Leighton Jordan. enhanced value which has been arbitrarily given to gold by the closing of the mints against the coinage of silver . 6 Mr. Crump tells us that ' The best thing to do is for those ' who find it their interest to ...
William Leighton Jordan. enhanced value which has been arbitrarily given to gold by the closing of the mints against the coinage of silver . 6 Mr. Crump tells us that ' The best thing to do is for those ' who find it their interest to ...
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... closing of the mints against silver that has made it ' an unprofit- ' able superfluity , ' just in the same manner as the closing of the factories against cotton would make existing stocks of that article ' an unprofitable superfluity ...
... closing of the mints against silver that has made it ' an unprofit- ' able superfluity , ' just in the same manner as the closing of the factories against cotton would make existing stocks of that article ' an unprofitable superfluity ...
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