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Cheap Silver Lowers Wheat Price 1930

Why Cheap Silver Cheapens Wheat
TWO price phenomena that attract world-wide attention are the very low price of wheat and the world-wide decline in the value of silver.
This is a great deal more than a coincidence, one statistical observer is inclined to think.
The Cambridge Associates of Boston have prepared a chart, here reproduced, which shows that [...]

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World War 1 War Debts 1925

EFFECT OF WAR-DEBT FUNDING ON FOREIGN BONDS
FRANCE, Belgium, and other European countries have recently been funding their floating war debts to the United States Government. It happens that these countries have also floated a number of government bond issues in the United States, and the bonds have been sold to American investors and are being [...]

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Status of Credit Unions 1925

THE CREDIT UNION—”E PLURIBUS UNUM BANKING’
COOPERATIVE banking for the man of small means is being developed in this country by the credit union, which does for the small borrower for miscellaneous needs what the Building and Loan Association does for the home-builder. Credit unions have existed in Europe for three-quarters of a century. In this [...]

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