This newly detailed ILLUSTRATED edition of the Classic texts examines the history of money and how it came into being. Brough give a very vivid account of the history of money in good times, as well as the ugly evil side of the monetary game in this classic book. Revisited with great precision, the colorful pictures of money and the history thereof, comes to life as the author takes us on a jorney into the past and present tense of money. " Money is so important a factor in the creation of wealth that until we can have a ...
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This newly detailed ILLUSTRATED edition of the Classic texts examines the history of money and how it came into being. Brough give a very vivid account of the history of money in good times, as well as the ugly evil side of the monetary game in this classic book. Revisited with great precision, the colorful pictures of money and the history thereof, comes to life as the author takes us on a jorney into the past and present tense of money. " Money is so important a factor in the creation of wealth that until we can have a paper currency with sufficient elasticity, not only to respond promptly to legitimate demands in every section of the country, but to return to its issuers for redemption when that demand shall cease, we can neither know what the productive powers of the nation are, nor can they be developed to their fullest extent; but we shall never have such a currency so long as the national government continues to exercise the function it has assumed of supplying the common medium of exchange."
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