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Greenback Currency and the Case for Honest Paper Money
A polemical history argues that national paper money redeemable by exchanges is superior to coin. It denounces specie payments, links gold to despotism, and claims honest greenbacks would reduce costs, empower labor, and curb moneyed monopolies.
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Ita
United States
Lords of the Treasury
Gold Room
McCoulloch
Sherman
Charybdis
National Treasury of
John Law