Help organising your research by adding bookmarking your articles. You can review your Bookmarks in the Saved area. *
* We take your privacy seriously. Bookmarks and notes are personal to you and are not public.
... the gold standard would havo world-wide repercussions , and would increase tho dislocation and instability of international trade and finance , but thero was no need to exaggerate tlio difficulties . For seven years wo wero off tho gold standard during ...
... COMPROMISE. (By Our Political Correspondent.) WESTMINSTER, Monday. The political reactions of the decision to suspend the gold standard formed the dominant topic of discussion at Westminster to-day. It was freely asserted in those quarters which have fought ...
... formation of a National Government, then the Budget of cuts and economies and now i the Government's decision to suspend the gold standard. Outwardly there would seem to be excuse for public uneasiness and alarm and yet the nation has accept. ed these changes ...
... evidently unable to appreciate the difference' between a departure from the Gold Standard with the Budget m a condition or assured solvency , and being pushed off the Gold Standard while national finance under the management of their leaders was still in ...
... position the country is sound. This position must be maintained. ULTIMATE RESOURCES ENORMOUS. It is one thing to go off the gold standard with unbalanced Budget and uncontrolled inflation; it is quite another thing to take this measure, not because of internal ...
... of a hastily-convened meeting of the Cabinet, held on Sunday night, it was decided that Britain should depart from the gold standard. Yesterday the House of Commons adopted the measures necessary to give effect to this decision. It had been thought that ...
... failed . It had been formed to keep the country on the gold standard , with ihe most wild and fantastic prophecies of both Mr MacDonald and Mr Snowdcn as to what would happen if we left the gold standard . None of these prophecies had . fortunately , been ...
... CURRENT EVENTS Prices Off The Gold Standard By ARGUS the first time for many wee „ there is announced a diminution the numbers of the unemployed. i the same time there are pub^ 5 assurances by various trade associ-' 1 that there will be no immediate ...
... indeman . 22 Young Sh-oct , Edinburgh , September 23 , 1931 SiE , —The country having taken tho plunge and gone off the gold standard , it is to bo hoped that there will bo no undue haste to get back to it . It is true that we could quite easily get back ...
... to ensure that this stampede shall not rob us of all our gold, and so push us off the gold standard altogether. The consequence* of the suspension of the gold standard are hound to disagreeable. said the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his broadcast talk ...
... not matter very much that we had gone oft’ the gold standard, as it would have very much the same effect as a tariff. That was a very dangerous assumption to make, because this matter of the gold standard, once the pound was not linked and tied closely ...
... CONDITIONS The prevailing uncertainty m tlic world money markois as the result of the temporary abandonn . 'ci :: of the gold standard b y Great Britain is 5 :. o ? n by ihe following cables from Reuter corre- ...