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Banks and banking, Central United States History Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) Camp David (Md.) Edwards, E. Jay (Elisha Jay) 1847-1924 Federal Reserve banks History Monetary policy United States History Monetary policy United States History 20th century United States Economic conditions 1971-1981 United States Economic policy 1971-1981 United States. Federal Reserve Board.Blinder, Alan S.
Summary: "In this book, Alan Blinder, one of the world's most influential economists and one of the field's best writers, draws on his deep firsthand experience to provide an authoritative account of sixty years of monetary and fiscal policy in the United States. Spanning twelve presidents, from John F. Kennedy to Joe Biden, and eight Federal Reserve chairs, from William McChesney Martin to Jerome...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.973 BLIAlgeo, Matthew.
Summary: Recounts the summer of 1893 when President Grover Cleveland disappeared for five days, covering up a surgery to remove cancer from his palate and jaw.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEVELAND, GROVER ALGVolcker, Paul A
Summary: As chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987), Paul Volcker slayed the inflation dragon that was consuming the American economy and restored the world's faith in central bankers. That extraordinary feat was just one pivotal episode in a decades-long career serving six presidents. Told with wit, humor, and down-to-earth erudition, the narrative of Volcker's career illuminates the changes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VOLCKER, PAUL A VOLNesvetailova, Anastasia
Summary: "The fundamental motive for financial innovation is not to make the system work better, but to avoid regulation and oversight. This is not a bug of the financial system, but a built-in feature. The president of the US is not a tax avoider because he is an especially fraudulent financier; he's a tax avoider because he is a wealthy man in a system premised on such deceit. Finance is an industry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.0973 NESGarten, Jeffrey E.
Summary: "The former dean of the Yale School of Management and Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration chronicles the 1971 August meeting at Camp David, where President Nixon unilaterally ended the last vestiges of the gold standard-breaking the link between gold and the dollar-transforming the entire global monetary system"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 GARLowenstein, Roger
Summary: Chronicles the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that created the Federal Reserve, tracing the financial panic and widespread distrust of bankers that prompted the landmark 1913 Federal Reserve Act and launched America's first steps onto the world financial stage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015