... retrenchment and taxation the only means of escaping the perils previously guarded against by the gold standard. It had been declared that going off the gold standard had automatically disposed of the problem of adverse trade balance and that the balance of ...

... magistrate, announcing a ins of 101 against a motorist— That is without reference to the gold standard. Defending Solicitor—l understand that the gold standard does net egeo shillings ; • Niagistrebe--No. Thai is - sonde the in siniiinsai ...

... notions poarnMe about the gold standard and the restrictions which the Act Parliament imposed on the Bank of England now fairly understand the large question involved. Whatever the eventual result of the suspension of the gold standard may be, the immediate ...

... was that a State which maintained the gold standard had in that very fact a guarantee against great inflation. The fact that it had been found necessary withdraw from the impregnable fortress of the gold standard only placed upon them a new obligation ...

... Brussels 1920 and at Genoa in 1922. The Brussels conference urged the return to the gold standard, while the Genoa conference urged not only the rehabilitation of the gold standard but the importance of preventing undue fluctuations in the purchasing power ...

... IMPERIAL PREFERENCE. Going off the gold standard operated no doubt for the time being as block on foreign imports, but it was a perfectly indiscriminate block. It operated against food and raw materials just the same ns against articles of luxury, lie ...

... people m this country who are urging the abolition of the gold standard. That is counsel of chaos and despair. What this country and the world need above all is the restoration of the gold standard to its normal functioning. CUNARD WINTER CKUISIA by S ** ...

... is not arrested tnere can be only one ultimate outcome which will be that the lest of the ■world will be forced off the gold standard. If that should happen France and America would be exposed to serious and unavoidable defaults. ...

... previously guarded against by the gold standard. (Hear, hear.) Last week,” lie proceeded, Britain was held by two anchors. It could not plunge into economic chaos for these two anchors. One anchor was the gold standard. We are still left with the other ...

... Gold and Silver. Britain's suspension of the gold standard has been speedily followed by a revival of the movement for the remonetisation of silver. This policy had many distinguished supporters, including the late Lord Balfour, in the last quarter of ...

... fraction below yesterday’s. World markets are settling down the new conditions raised by Great Britain’s suspension of the gold standard. In the meantime Reuter messages yesterday show that interest in the crisis has shifted momentarily to the United States ...

... the honesty ©f our national finances. The House of Commons also insisted by the same verdict that the departure from the gold standard makes the restoration of the balance of trade more ■urgent than ever. Currency depreciation will not itself work this miracle ...