Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.