America's Money Machine

CONTENTS
Preface lX
PART I The Roots of Reform
1. The Quality of the Times 3
2. The First Shock Wave IO
3. The Lapping at the Dikes I6
4. The Rich Man's Panic 22
5. A Measure of Expediency 3 I
6. The Aldrich-Vreeland Bill 43
7. An Interlude for Debate 46
8. The Great Investigation 53
9. The Setting of the Current 6I
10. The Bill Considered 67
PART II The Great Reversal
I 1. Advent of Storm 8I
12. The First Inundation 87
13. Collapse of a Theory 93
14. The Path of Retreat IOO
15. When to Reef Sail Io8
16. The Wounds of War II8
17. Wading in the Big Pond I27
18. The Lapping Waves of Crisis I35
19. The Fulcrum and the Lever I43
20. The Gushing Fountain I5I
PART III Debacle of an Idea
2 1. The Crumbling of the Dikes I57