American Default : : The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold / / Sebastian Edwards.
The untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economyThe American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt did just that, when in a bid to pull the country out of depression, he depr...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Timeline
- Dramatis personae
- Chapter 1. Gold and the Professors
- Chapter 2. A Tragic Disaster
- Chapter 3. The Quest for Money
- Chapter 4. A National Calamity
- Chapter 5. Moderate Inflation Is Necessary and Desirable
- Chapter 6. A Transfer of Wealth to the Debtor Class
- Chapter 7. The Gold Clause Is Gone
- Chapter 8. A London Interlude
- Chapter 9. Order in Place of Chaos
- Chapter 10. The Gold-Buying Program
- Chapter 11. The Path to the Supreme Court
- Chapter 12. Nine Old Men and Gold
- Chapter 13. Embarrassment and Confusion
- Chapter 14. The Waiting Game
- Chapter 15. The Decisions, at Last
- Chapter 16. Consequences
- Chapter 17. Could it Happen Again?
- Appendix. George F. Warren versus Irving Fisher's Plans for the Dollar
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index