| ISBN13: | 9781032978925 |
| ISBN10: | 1032978929 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 220 pages |
| Size: | 234x156 mm |
| Weight: | 570 g |
| Language: | English |
| 700 |
The Financiers and the Nation
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The Financiers and the Nation (1934) examines a dozen or so of the major financial frauds permitted by Bank of England and City merchants in 19th and 20th centuries and ends with a few proposed remedies, among them being the nationalization of the Bank of England and the establishment of a capital investment board.
In The Financiers and the Nation (1934) Mr. Johnston ? Privy Councillor ? examines a dozen or so of the most spectacular of the major financial frauds permitted by Bank of England and City merchants in 19th and early 20th centuries and ends with a few proposed remedies, among them being the nationalization of the Bank of England, the development of regional municipal banks, greater use of the Post Office Savings Bank, and the planning and direction of a capital investment board.
1. The Steam Power Speculators 2. Foreign Loan Panics 3. The Great Railroad Ramp 4. Truck Tricks 5. The Vultures 6. Usury on the Great War 7. Post-war ?Prosperity? 8. How Farrow?s Bank Fell 9. Plundering the Municipalities 10. Lessons from Lee Bevan 11. The Methods of Mr Bottomley 12. White and Loewenstein: Leaders of Men 13. The Kreuger Swindles 14. The Dissipation of British Thrift 15. Remedial Measures: A National Investment Board 16. Remedial Measures: A State-Owned Bank of Great Britain 17. Remedial Measures: The Post Office Bank 18. Remedial Measures: Municipal Banking 19. Remedial Measures: Co-operative Banking 20. The Joint Stock Banks and the Magnates of the City 21. High Finance and the Crisis of 1931
