1st Edition

The Financiers and the Nation

By Thomas Johnston Copyright 1934
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

Thomas Johnston