Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mention that co-operatives are "even bigger business in Britain. ... It has a $700,000,000 bank...
Would you mind telling me the name of this bank...
...slack lay entirely in the fact that the nation's banks now have some $3,000,000,000 in reserves over & above what they need to support their present business. That excess could support a credit expansion of at least $30,000,000,000. It is the threat of such credit inflation that gives bankers like Chase National's Chairman Winthrop Aldrich the jitters every time they think about it. And, through the mysteries of central banking, excess reserves are about to take another rise as a result of the payment of the Bonus, the Reserve Board estimating...
Measured praise for Chairman Eccles and his Board was heard last week from none other than Montagu Collet Norman, foxy old governor of the Bank of England, who arrived in Manhattan for one of his hasty U. S. visits. Asked what he thought of the boost in reserve requirement, he replied...
Pushing back his blue beret and twirling his spectacles, the bearded dean of British banking was then asked if some of the gold which caused the expansion in bank reserves would not soon return to Europe. Expressing a facetious wish which the Reserve Board feels will be fulfilled in all seriousness, Governor Norman replied : "I hope not. You can keep it. We had all the trouble digging it out of the ground, but you can keep it. You are too rich over here, but you can keep your gold...