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. For our entire lives, my sister and I had been obsessed with that money. It seemed to us a fascinating amount of money. Second house money. Trust fund money. Political influence money. “Okay,” one of us said, “who had more money: the Sarah side of the family, or the Michael side of
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by Carlota Pérez · 1 Jan 2002
, ‘Wall Street was under constant scrutiny from one government agency or another’ and so were banks and insurance firms. The uncovering of the so-called ‘Money Trust’ by the Glass 223. Galbraith (1990:1993) p. 62. The Changing Nature of Financial and Institutional Innovations 143 group made the need for regulation clear
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in taxpayer money and hoping the problem will go away. “Bombing Bikini Again,” read the headline in a newspaper article in 1994: “This Time with Money.” Trust funds, compensation, claims, payouts, investments—these days such words pepper the language of the Bikinians: “In all our meetings now,” said a former Peace Corps
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by Paul Pierson and Jacob S. Hacker · 14 Sep 2010 · 602pp · 120,848 words
on bigness and the banks as the great challenges to democracy of the day. Indeed, in the very year of Roosevelt’s fiery speech, “the money trust” became the focus of highly publicized congressional hearings that revealed widespread abuses in the banking industry. It then became the subject of one of the
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by Andrew Jackson (economist) and Ben Dyson (economist) · 15 Nov 2012 · 363pp · 107,817 words
that within countries, those that use a currency constitute an economic community that co-operate in the production of goods and services: those that accept money trust that there will be things available to spend the money on in the future, entailing production by other members of the community. Holding currency therefore
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
by Joel Bakan · 1 Jan 2003
loss of power in and control of large corporations turned out to be managers' gains. In 1913, a congressional committee set up to investigate the "money trust," led by Congressman the management is virtually self-perpetuating and is able through the power of patronage, the indifference of stockholders and other influences to
When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
by Ashlee Vance · 8 May 2023 · 558pp · 175,965 words
solve the endless stream of technical challenges that had stumped thousands of people for decades. It would make awesome rockets, and it would make awesome money. Trust me, guys. I’m Peter Beck. I have floppy hair, cool charts, and enthusiasm. Beck would turn up at the meetings like a carnival barker
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by Marc Randolph · 16 Sep 2019 · 334pp · 102,899 words
quantity, venture capitalist catnip. He’d orchestrated major deals, he’d appeared—reluctantly—on the cover of USA Today next to his Porsche. People with money trusted him because he had a track record of making them money. Even in 1998, he had around his head the halo of Silicon Valley success
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by Kurt Andersen · 14 Sep 2020 · 486pp · 150,849 words
giant industrial corporation,” which was much more plausible. The association of power with the banker had always depended on the somewhat tenuous belief in a “money trust”—in the notion that the means for financing the initiation and expansion of business enterprises was concentrated in the hands of a few men. The
Money Free and Unfree
by George A. Selgin · 14 Jun 2017 · 454pp · 134,482 words
concoction. A month before it was finally submitted to Congress, Charles Lindbergh Sr. assailed the plan as a scheme to preserve, and even enhance, the “Money Trust’s” share of the nation’s bank reserves, by requiring state as well as national banks subscribing to the proposed National Reserve Association to conform
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two subcommittees. The first, assigned to Arsène Pujo (D-LA), who had served on the National Monetary Commission, took on the task of investigating the Money Trust—which is to say, the very same banking interests that had played so prominent a part in shaping the Aldrich plan. The other, headed by
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assigned the task of developing an alternative plan for currency reform. Although this division prevented Pujo himself from being made responsible for currency reform, the Money Trust investigations put any plan even vaguely associated with Wall Street on the defensive. This more than countered the National Citizens’ League’s efforts, while causing
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