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A History of Money and Banking in the United States is a 2002 book by economist Murray Rothbard, released posthumously based on his archived manuscripts. [1] The author traces inflations, banking panics, and money meltdowns from the Colonial Period through the mid-20th century.
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance is a non-fiction book by Ron Chernow, published in 1990.It traces the history of four generations of the J.P. Morgan financial empire, on both sides of the Atlantic, from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987.
The history of banking began with the first prototype banks, ... The most famous Italian bank was the Medici Bank, ... A customer's deposit book, ...
Rothbard, Murray N., History of Money and Banking in the United States.Full text (510 pages) in pdf format, A libertarian interpretation; Schweikart, Larry, ed. Banking and Finance to 1913 (1990), an encyclopedia with short articles by experts Schweikart, Larry, ed. Banking and Finance, 1913-1989 (1990), an encyclopedia with short articles by ...
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World is a 2008 book by then-Harvard professor Niall Ferguson, [1] and an adapted television documentary for Channel 4 (UK) and PBS (US), [2] which in 2009 won an International Emmy Award. It examines the long history of money, credit, and banking.
The bank's initial public offering in July of 1791 was the largest such event in the young country's history, as the $8 million of offered shares were quickly snapped up by the nation's elite.
According to Cole, some of the most popular requests bank tellers receive are for rare or collectible currencies like $2 bills or silver dollars.
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.