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A History of Money and Banking in the United States Before the Twentieth Century

English, History, 1 season, 65 episodes
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Murray Rothbard, in a complete revision of the standard account, traces inflations, banking panics, and money meltdowns from the Colonial Period through the mid-twentieth century to show how the American government's systematic war on sound money is the hidden force behind nearly all major economic calamities in American history. This audio edition is narrated by Matthew Menzinskis.
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33. The Beginnings of the Reform Movement: The Indianapolis Monetary Convention

From Part II of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Origins of the Federal Reserve". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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62. The First New Deal: Dollar Nationalism

From Part V of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The New Deal and the International Monetary System". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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35. Charles A. Conant, Surplus Capital, and Economic Imperialism

From Part II of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Origins of the Federal Reserve". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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56. The Gold-Exchange Standard, Not Gold

From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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64. Epilogue to Part V

From Part V of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The New Deal and the International Monetary System". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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39. The Final Phase: Coping with the Democratic Ascendancy

From Part II of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Origins of the Federal Reserve". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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45. Meyer in the Hoover Administration

From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the Financial Elites ". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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60. The New Deal and the International Monetary System

From Part V of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The New Deal and the International Monetary System". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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38. The Panic of 1907 and Mobilization for a Central Bank

From Part II of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Origins of the Federal Reserve". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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59. Epilogue to Part IV

From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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47. Banking and Financial Legislation: 1933-1935

From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the Financial Elites ". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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31. The Progressive Movement

From Part II of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Origins of the Federal Reserve". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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37. Jacob Schiff Ignites the Drive for a Central Bank

From Part II of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Origins of the Federal Reserve". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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54. American Support for the Return to Gold at $4.86: The Morgan Connection

From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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52. Britain Faces the Postwar World

From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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48. Marriner S. Eccles and the Banking Act of 1935

From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the Financial Elites ". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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44. The Advent of Eugene Meyer, Jr.

From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the Financial Elites ". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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43. The Hoover Fed: Harrison and Young

From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the Financial Elites ". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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50. The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years

From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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63. The Second New Deal: The Dollar Triumphant

From Part V of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The New Deal and the International Monetary System". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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61. The Background of the 1920s

From Part V of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The New Deal and the International Monetary System". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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42. The Early Fed, 1914-1928: The Morgan Years

From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the Financial Elites ". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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55. The Establishment of the New Gold Standard of the 1920s: Bullion, Not Coin

From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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58. Depression and the End of the Gold-Sterling-Exchange Standard: 1929-1931

From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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46. The New Deal: Going off Gold

From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the Financial Elites ". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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57. The Gold-Exchange Standard in Operation: 1926-1929

From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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49. Epilogue: Return of the Morgans

From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the Financial Elites ". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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51. The Classical Gold Standard

From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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41. From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the Financial Elites

From Part III of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the Financial Elites ". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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36. Conant, Monetary Imperialism, and the Gold-Exchange Standard

From Part II of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Origins of the Federal Reserve". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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34. The Gold Standard Act of 1900 and After

From Part II of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Origins of the Federal Reserve". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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40. Conclusion to Part II

From Part II of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Origins of the Federal Reserve". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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32. Unhappiness with the National Banking System

From Part II of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Origins of the Federal Reserve". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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53. Return to Gold at $4.86: The Cunliffe Committee and After

From Part IV of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The Gold-Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
2/24/2011 • 0
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24. The Post Civil War Era: 1865-1879

From 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II'. Read by Matthew Mezinskis.
6/18/2010 • 0
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20. The Stuffolk's Demise

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
6/17/2010 • 0
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25. The Gold Standard Era with the National Banking System, 1879-1913

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
6/17/2010 • 0
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26. Prices, Wages, and Real Wages

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
6/17/2010 • 0
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30. 1896: The Transformation of the American Party System

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
6/17/2010 • 0
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17. The Country Banks Resist

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
6/17/2010 • 0
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21. The Civil War

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
6/17/2010 • 0
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15. A False Start

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
6/17/2010 • 0
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27. Interest Rates

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
6/17/2010 • 0
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14. A Free Market “CENTRAL BANK”

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
6/17/2010 • 0
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28. A Burst in Productivity

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
6/17/2010 • 0
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22. Greenbacks

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
6/17/2010 • 0
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19. The Stuffolk Difference

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
6/17/2010 • 0
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16. Operation Begin

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
6/17/2010 • 0
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23. The Public Debt and the National Banking System

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
6/17/2010 • 0
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18. Suffolk's Stabalizing Effects

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
6/17/2010 • 0
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29. Capital Formation

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
6/17/2010 • 0
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12. The Jacksonians and the Coinage Legislation of 1834

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
6/1/2010 • 0
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13. Decentralized Banking from the 1830's to the Civil War

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
6/1/2010 • 0
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11. The Jacksonian Movement and the Bank War

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
6/1/2010 • 0
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8. The First Bank of the United States, 1791-1811

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
4/15/2010 • 0
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1. The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
4/15/2010 • 0
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5. Revolutionary War Finance

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
4/15/2010 • 0
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10. The Second Bank of the United States, 1816-1833

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
4/15/2010 • 0
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4. Private Bank Notes

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
4/15/2010 • 0
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A History of Money and Banking In the United States Before the Twentieth Century Audiobook

Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis. Download the complete audiobook (64 MP3 files) here. This audiobook is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and via RSS.
4/15/2010 • 0
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2. Shilling and Dollar Manipulations

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
4/15/2010 • 0
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6. The Bank of North America

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
4/15/2010 • 0
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7. The United States: Bimetallic Coinage

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
4/15/2010 • 0
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9. The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
4/15/2010 • 0
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3. Government Paper Money

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: "The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century". Narrated by Matthew Mezinskis.
4/15/2010 • 0