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Walter Bagehot

Lombard Street : a description of the money market

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    main point on which one system of credit differs from another is 'soundness
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    Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed
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    cannot appeal, therefore, to experience to prove the safety of our system as it now is, for the present magnitude of that system is entirely n
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    must examine the system on which these great masses of money are manipulated, and assure ourselves that it is safe and right.
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    After this example, we must not confide too surely in long-established credit, or in firmly-rooted traditions of business
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    very large sum of foreign money is on various accounts and for various purposes held here. And in a time of panic it might be asked for. I
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    income will be an ample recompense to the poor man which would starve the rich man out of the trad
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    England has a special machinery for getting into trade new men who will be content with low pri
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    ew man, with a small capital of his own and a large borrowed capital, can undersell a rich man who depends on his own capital only
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    Political economists say that capital sets towards the most profitable trades, and that it rapidly leaves the less profitable and non-paying trades.
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