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Alexander Hamilton, a portrait by William J. Weaver now housed in the U.S. Department of State. In United States history, the Hamiltonian economic program was the set of measures that were proposed by American Founding Father and first Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in four notable reports and implemented by Congress during George Washington's first term.
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves, also known as Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street, is a non-fiction book by Andrew Ross Sorkin chronicling the events of the 2008 financial crisis and the collapse of Lehman Brothers from the point of view of Wall Street CEOs and US government regulators. [1]
The museum was founded in 1988 as the Museum of American Financial History but was renamed the Museum of American Finance in 2005. [2] Until December 2006, it was located at 26 Broadway . [ 3 ] On January 11, 2008, the museum opened in a new location at 48 Wall Street , the former headquarters of the Bank of New York . [ 4 ]
Tariffs in United States history; Protectionism in the United States; Friedrich List, German-American economist; Import substitution industrialization, a key feature of the American System adopted in much of the Third World during the twentieth century; Lincoln's expansion of the federal government's economic role
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 is a book written in 1963 by future Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz.It uses historical time series and economic analysis to argue the then-novel proposition that changes in the money supply profoundly influenced the United States economy, especially the behavior of economic fluctuations.
[99]: 118–19, 146, 216–37, 285, 419, 554 In financial matters, the decentralizing ideology of the Democratic-Republicans meant they wanted the First Bank of the United States to expire in 1811, when its 20-year charter ran out. The bank's absence made the financing of the war much more difficult to handle, and it caused special problems in ...
The report analyzed the financial standing of the United States and made recommendations to reorganize the national debt and to establish the public credit. [2] Commissioned by the US House of Representatives on September 21, 1789, the report was presented on January 9, 1790, [3] at the second session of the 1st US Congress. [4]
A financial plan can also be an estimation of cash needs and a decision on how to raise the cash, such as through borrowing or issuing additional shares in a company. [3] Note that the financial plan may then contain prospective financial statements, which are similar, but different, to those of a budget. Financial plans are the entire ...