The Story of the Bank of England / (A History of English Banking, and a Sketch of the Money Market)

CONTENTS

	CHAPTER	PAGE
I.	The Period of Monopoly, 1708 to 1826	1
II.	Before and After the Act of 1844	24
III.	The Bank's Weekly Return	48
IV.	The Issue and Banking Departments	63
V.	The Store in the Issue Department	74
VI.	Weekly Differences in the Return	85
VII.	The Bank as Agent of the Mint	94
VIII.	The Principal Currency Drains	101
IX.	Banks and the Creation of Credit	113
X.	The Battle of the Banks	126
XI.	The London Money Market	139
XII.	The Bank Rate and Stock Exchange Securities	154
XIII.	The Banks as Stockbrokers	161
XIV.	The Short Loan Fund and the Price of Securities	169
XV.	Panic Years	177
XVI.	The Banks and the Public	224
XVII.	Bank Stock	240

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