Free Market
Author:
H.A. Scott Trask
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The Free Market 24, no. 3 (March 2004) Before there was the Federal Reserve there was the second Bank of the United States (1817–1836). Since the late nineteenth century, historians and economists have lauded this institution for its salutary control over the currency, its regulation of the state banks, its prudent stewardship of the