A History of Prices, and of the State of the Circulation, from 1793 to 1837, Volume 2Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838 - Corn laws (Great Britain) |
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... cost , when it was too late , that the effective demand on the Con- tinent for colonial produce and British ... interest , it may easily be conceived that the whole value of the original investment might be nearly absorbed . The ...
... cost , when it was too late , that the effective demand on the Con- tinent for colonial produce and British ... interest , it may easily be conceived that the whole value of the original investment might be nearly absorbed . The ...
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... rate of interest in this country , such reduction being calculated pe- * It was computed that in pursuance of these notices the Bank had paid upwards of five millions of gold . culiarly to favour those operations . And yet it was E 2 ...
... rate of interest in this country , such reduction being calculated pe- * It was computed that in pursuance of these notices the Bank had paid upwards of five millions of gold . culiarly to favour those operations . And yet it was E 2 ...
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... rate of interest on ex- chequer bills . This was the very reverse of the policy which both the government and the Bank ought to have adopted . The government ought to have taken the opportunity of the comparatively high price of stocks ...
... rate of interest on ex- chequer bills . This was the very reverse of the policy which both the government and the Bank ought to have adopted . The government ought to have taken the opportunity of the comparatively high price of stocks ...
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... rate of interest granted by them , and the comparatively low rate in this country , holding out a great inducement for the transmission of British capital to the Continent . The importations of corn in the latter part of 1817 , and ...
... rate of interest granted by them , and the comparatively low rate in this country , holding out a great inducement for the transmission of British capital to the Continent . The importations of corn in the latter part of 1817 , and ...
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... rate of interest when it ought to have been raised ) , combined with the effect of the large importations of grain and other produce , which were then in progress , caused a depression of the exchanges , and a consequent efflux of ...
... rate of interest when it ought to have been raised ) , combined with the effect of the large importations of grain and other produce , which were then in progress , caused a depression of the exchanges , and a consequent efflux of ...
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31 August agricultural amount ation average price Bank circulation Bank issues Bank notes Bank of England bankers bullion cause cent circumstances close commencement commercial committee commodities compared consequence considerable consumption contraction corn laws cotton country banks country circulation crops currency deficiency demand Deposits depression diminished discounts discredit distress effect enlargement exchanges exchequer bills export extent fall of prices favourable February foreign France greater grounds harvest high prices House of Commons important increase influence instances interval joint-stock banks June June 25 liabilities loans Lord Liverpool manufactures ment metallic millions money market monied capital months nearly nerally occasion operation overtrading paper Peel's bill period preceding pressure prevailed price of wheat prices of corn Private produce proportion quantity quarter rate of interest reduction rise of prices scarcity season securities small notes spring supply supposed tion trade value of money variations vols
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