John Buchanan
John Buchanan
John MacLennan Buchanan, PC, QCis a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the 20th Premier of Nova Scotia from 1978 to 1990 and as a member of the Senate of Canada from 1990 to 2006...
paper pins interest
Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!
insecure paper currency
Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.
realization individual accepting
But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.
gold paper financial
At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
running gold panic
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.
gold use silver
Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.
credit modern
Modern money is almost altogether credit money.
kings army people
It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.