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Lombard Street : a description of the money market /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Homewood, Ill., R.D. Irwin, c1962.Description: 176 pSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 332.110942 BAG
LOC classification:
  • HG3000.L82 B3 1962
Online resources: Summary: The book describe and explain the world of international and corporate finance, banking, and money in understandable language. The book was in part a reaction to the financial collapse of Overend, Gurney and Company, a wholesale discount bank located at 65 Lombard Street, London, from which the book draws its title. When this bank suspended payments on 10 May 1866, panic spread across London, Liverpool, Manchester, Norwich, Derby and Bristol. Bagehot's advice also refered to as "Bagehot's dictum" for the lender of last resort during a credit crunch is summarized by Charles Goodhart as follows: Lend freely; At a high rate of interest; and On good banking securities.
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Monograph & others Monograph & others CBN HQ Library General Stacks Non-fiction 332.110942 BAG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31008101219620

With a new introduction by Frank C. Genovese.

The book describe and explain the world of international and corporate finance, banking, and money in understandable language. The book was in part a reaction to the financial collapse of Overend, Gurney and Company, a wholesale discount bank located at 65 Lombard Street, London, from which the book draws its title. When this bank suspended payments on 10 May 1866, panic spread across London, Liverpool, Manchester, Norwich, Derby and Bristol.
Bagehot's advice also refered to as "Bagehot's dictum" for the lender of last resort during a credit crunch is summarized by Charles Goodhart as follows:
Lend freely;
At a high rate of interest; and
On good banking securities.

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