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nbsp Money in Ancient Times was coins and bars made of precious metal, although much of commerce was a matter of barter. The Phoenicians [2500-64 B.C.E.] invented banks because it was too dangerous to ship tons of gold - losses from pirates or storms were devastating. So they invented 'letters of credit' that were easily delivered to their various outposts, documents to be traded for gold, etc. in storage at those locations. Banking in Medieval Times was also centered on international trade, especially the Bardi and Peruzzi and Medici families of Florence.

The new merchant class of the 17th Century began depositing gold with London (and other) goldsmiths for safekeeping and the goldsmiths began issuing paper 'specie' that could be traded for gold on demand. The Bank of England originated the permanent issue of banknotes in 1695; by the beginning of the 19th Century, a bankers' clearing house was established in London to allow multiple banks to clear transactions. The Rothschilds pioneered international finance on a large scale, financing the purchase of shares in the Suez canal for the British government in 1875.

Banking was generally a service to governments and commercial investors (i.e. Wall Street) until A.P. Giannini [] created the Bank of Italy to serve individual workers and small businesses in 1904; that enterprise grew to become the international behemoth Bank of America by 1945.

          Not much has changed since then except as to form:
          • In 1957, American Express issued the first of its charge cards, which are different in that they require full payment at the end of each month; American Express issued the first embossed plastic cards in 1959.
          • The first credit card system was launched in 1958 by Bank of America in Fresno, California; the name was changed to Visa in 1976.
          • The ancestor of MasterCard was born in 1966 when a group of banks established the Interbank card system to compete with BankAmericard; it received a significant boost when Citibank joined them in 1969 and merged its own Everything Card, launched in 1967; the name was changed to Master Charge in 1969 and to MasterCard in 1978.
          • The first successful A.T.M.s (automated teller machines) began operation in May 1968 in England and Sweden.

          The first home banking service was offered to consumers in December 1980 by United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee; the bank partnered with Radio Shack to produce a secure custom modem for its TRS-80 computer that allowed bank customers to access their account information securely; thousands of customers paid $25-$30 per month for bill pay, account balance checks, and loan applications, as well as game access, budget & tax calculators, and daily newspapers.
          Four of New York's major banks (Citibank, Chase Manhattan, Chemical Bank, and Manufacturers Hanover) followed in 1981 by offering home banking services, using the videotex system, which was a commercial failure except in France (where millions of Minitel videotex terminals were given out by the telecom provider).
          In 1995, Wells Fargo was the first U.S. bank to add online banking services to its website; by 2000, 80% of U.S. banks offered e-banking; by 2009, 47% of Americans used online banking; and by 2018, the number of digital banking users in the U.S. reached approximately 61 percent.
          Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency, invented in 2008 to circumvent the legal and moral restrictions of banking. {The entire cryptocurrency scheme is a 'financial bubble' inevitably destined to implode.}

A Few Important Dates

2021 November:

Cryptocurrency Bitcoin reached a record high of nearly $69,000.

2022 Sat Jan 22:

A dramatic sell-off in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies outpaced a marked retreat in the U.S. stock market, as the price of bitcoin fell from its November highs of nearly $70,000 to now around $35,000.

2022 June:

Events are being labeled 'The Crypto Winter'.

2022 Mon Nov 14:

The F.T.X. crypto exchange's collapse and bankruptcy caused further damage: Bitcoin dropped to $16,500 and is now down 65 percent in 2022; analysts say that it could drop below $10,000.

2024 July 15: The Target retail chain stopped accepting personal checks from customers, citing 'extremely low volumes' of the old-school payment method.

The Bank for International Settlements [est. 1930] - HQ in Basel, Switzerland with offices in Hong Kong and Mexico City
supports central banks around the world, including the U.S. Federal Reserve
http://www.bis.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_for_International_Settlements

The Bank of Canada [chartered 1934]
http://www.bank-banque-canada.ca/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Canada

The Bank of England [est. 1694; nationalized in 1946]
"Promoting the good of the people of the United Kingdom by maintaining monetary and financial stability."
the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based; it is the world's eighth-oldest bank
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England

The Bank of Scotland [est. 1695; reorganized 2007; takeover by Lloyds TSB in 2009]
http://www.bankofscotland.co.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Scotland

Deutsche Bundesbank [est. 1957; merger 1990] of Germany
the central bank of the Federal Republic of Germany; merged with East Germany's central bank in 1990
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Bundesbank
Deutsche Notenbank [East Germany 1948-1968]
Staatsbank der DDR [East Germany 1968-1990]

The European Central Bank []
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Central_Bank

Swiss National Bank [est. 1874 & 1906]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_National_Bank

Bank of America Corporation [founded 1904]
founded in San Francisco as the Bank of Italy by A.P. Giannini [1870-1949]; merger/name change 1928; merged in 1998 with Nations Bank [1874-1998],
sold the BofA building in San Francisco, and consolidated operational HQ in Charlotte, NC.
"Bank of America is NOT too damn big to fail!"
Bank of America entry at Wikipedia

City Bank of New York [1812-1998]
est. 1812, renamed Citicorp/Citibank in 1974, merged with Travelers Group in 1998
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citibank

Travelers Insurance Corp. [est. 1863; merged with Citicorp in 1998]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Travelers_Companies

Commercial Credit Corp. [1912-88]
est. 1912; merged with Control Data Corp. [est. 1957] in 1968; spun off to private in 1986; merged with Primerica in 1988
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Data_Corporation#Commercial_Credit_Corporation

Primerica Financial Services [1977-93]
est. 1977, renamed 1987; acquired by Commercial Credit in 1988; merged with Travelers Insurance in 1993
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primerica

Citigroup [merger 1998] - incorporated in Delaware
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup

Credit Suisse Group AG is based in Zürich, Switzerland
Credit Suisse 3Q2022 total assets were US$700B; Credit Suisse USA 3Q2022 assets were US$13.77B (just under 2%).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_Suisse

Chase Manhattan Bank [est. 1799, merged 2000]
now JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA - commercial bank division
official website • entry at Wikipedia

JPMorgan Chase & Co. [merger 2000] multinational banking & financial services - New York City
owns failed Bear Stearns & failed Washington Mutual
"J.P. Morgan Chase [is] America's biggest bank and a crime syndicate that apparently is too big to jail."
— activist Jim Hightower (2014)
official website • entry at Wikipedia

"Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase" [Oct 19, 2010] by Duff McDonald https://www.amazon.com/Last-Man-Standing-Ascent-JPMorgan-ebook/dp/B002QJZ9ZY/ https://www.amazon.com/Last-Man-Standing-Ascent-JPMorgan/dp/1416599541/

"The History of JPMorgan Chase: Leadership in Finance Since 1799" [2013] by Shelley (ed. ) Diamon https://www.amazon.com/History-JPMorgan-Chase-2012/dp/B077S1JHL2/ https://www.amazon.com/History-JPMorgan-Chase-Bank/dp/B09R5TBJTL/ https://www.amazon.com/History-JPMorgan-Chase-Leadership-Finance/dp/B00NBDXJAQ/

"JPMorgan’s Fall and Revival: How the Wave of Consolidation Changed America’s Premier Bank" [Oct 23, 2020] by Nicholas P. Sargen https://www.amazon.com/JPMorgans-Fall-Revival-Consolidation-Americas-ebook/dp/B08L7D88KX/ https://www.amazon.com/JPMorgans-Fall-Revival-Consolidation-Americas/dp/3030470601/ https://www.amazon.com/JPMorgans-Fall-Revival-Consolidation-Americas/dp/3030470571/

Lloyds Banking Group [founded in 1765]
http://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyds_Banking_Group

Nations Bank [1874-1998] - Charlotte, NC
began as Commercial National Bank [est. 1874] and American Trust Company [est. 1909]; Nations Bank formed by multiple mergers in 1991;
purchased BankAmerica in 1998, named the merged company Bank of America Corp.
NationsBank entry at Wikipedia

Rothschild & Co. in Paris, France
multinational investment bank and financial services company, and the flagship of the Rothschild banking group
http://www.rothschildandco.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_%26_Co

Edmond de Rothschild Group, Swiss bank in Geneva
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_de_Rothschild_Group

N.M. Rothschild & Sons, British bank in London
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N_M_Rothschild_%26_Sons

Mayer Amschel Rothschild, former German bank in Frankfurt-am-Main
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayer_Amschel_Rothschild

Rothschild et Cie Banque, Paris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_%26_Cie_Banque

S.M. von Rothschild, former Austrian bank in Vienna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._M._von_Rothschild

C M de Rothschild & Figli, former Italian bank in Naples
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_banking_family_of_Naples

banker Mayer Amschel Rothschild [1744-1812]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayer_Amschel_Rothschild

{second son} banker Nathan Mayer Rothschild [1777-1836]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Mayer_Rothschild

"Rothchild" feature film [Austria 1933] /tt0030700/
comedy of mistaken identity & bank fraud, based on novel by Paul Laffitte

"The House of Rothschild" biopic [USA 1934] /tt0025272/ starring George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young

"The Rothschilds/Die Rothschilds" [Germany 1940] /tt0248379/ Nazi anti-semitic propaganda

"The Rothschilds" Broadway musical [Oct 1970 - Jan 1972] starring Hal Linden & Jill Clayburgh
http://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-rothschilds-3089
takes place between 1772 and 1818 in Frankfort, London, Aix-la-Chapelle, and elsewhere in Europe
http://www.amazon.com/Rothschilds-Musical-1970-Original-Broadway/dp/B0000024WT/ cd
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0013AZMXQ/ mp3

Prescott Sheldon Bush [1895-1972] - grandfather of George W. Bush
U.S. Army captain, 1917-19; banking & golfing exec; U.S. Senator [GOP-CT], 1952-63

co-founded Union Banking Corp.
[est. 1924; the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s; assets siezed during WWII; dissolved in the 1950s]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Banking_Corporation

billionaire investor Kenneth C. 'Ken' Griffin
not really a bad guy, just that he donates only to Republicans & their causes and is opposed to any tax on the Wealthy Class
entry at Wikipedia • E.S.L. Investments [est. 1988] entry at Wikipedia
founder, CEO, co-chief investment officer, and 80% owner of multinational hedge fund Citadel LLC [est. 1990]
also owns Citadel Securities, one of the largest market makers in the U.S.

takeover investor Carl C. Icahn
entry at Wikipedia
"King Icahn" [1993] by Mark Stevens

vulture investor Edward S. 'Eddie' Lampert
entry at Wikipedia • E.S.L. Investments [est. 1988] entry at Wikipedia
In October 2018, Sears Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and announced the closing of 142 more Sears and Kmart stores by the end of the year;
while the announcement blamed plunging sales and massive debt, the true cause was looting of assets by Edward S. Lampert and his E.S.L. Investments.

Deal From Hell / Great American Newspapers book by James O'Shea

"The Deal From Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers"
[2011] by James O'Shea
The Tribune Company conglomerate of Chicago merged with Times Mirror of Los Angeles in June 2000, doubling the company's size. Chicago investor Sam Zell bought out the company in April 2007 for $8.4 billion. But by December 2008, the company filed bankruptcy. Former Chicago Tribune managing editor O'Shea reports on the behind-the-scenes meetings and dealings that helped destroy the newspaper industry in America.
Kindle Edition from PublicAffairs [8/2012] for $9.99
PublicAffairs 8¼x5½ pb [8/2012] out of print/used
PublicAffairs 9½x6¼ hardcover [6/2011] for $20.89

"State Banking in Early America: A New Economic History" [Oxford Univ Press 2003] by Howard Bodenhorn ISBN 0-19-514776-6
"The Second Bank of the United States" [Univ Chicago Press 1902] by Ralph C.H. Catterall
"Nicholas Biddle: Nationalist and Public Banker, 1786–1844" [Univ Chicago Press 1959] by Thomas Payne Govan
"Andrew Jackson and the Bank War" [W.W. Norton & Company 1967] by Robert V. Remini ISBN 978-0393-09757-3
"Biddle's Bank: The Crucial Years" [Columbia Univ Press 1967] by Jean A. Wilburn

"The Bank War: Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and the Fight for American Finance" [Westholme Publng 2016]
by Paul Kahan ISBN 9781594162343
http://www.amazon.com/Bank-War-Jackson-Nicholas-American-ebook/dp/B087WZQB9J/

"The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America"
[Univ Press of Kansas 2019] by Stephen W. Campbell ISBN 978-07006-2744-8

"Frontline: The Economic Meltdown" on DVD [P.B.S. June 2013]

Tagline: "How America's fiscal fallout triggered a world crisis" • Five hour-long TV news programs about the 2008 G.O.P. Economic Meltdown: "Breaking The Bank" [10/2008] {IMDb}; "Inside The Meltdown" [2/2009] written & directed by Michael Kirk {IMDb}; "Ten Trillion and Counting" [3/2009] co-produced & written by Mark Obenhaus {IMDb}; "The Warning" [10/2009] written & directed by Michael Kirk {IMDb}; and "Cliffhanger" [2/2013] co-written & directed by Michael Kirk {IMDb}
P.B.S. Home Video color DVD [6/2013] 2 disks for $18.99

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	"The Rothschilds: A Family of Fortune" [1973] by Virginia Cowles Mayer Amschel Rothschild was born in a ghetto in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany; his early interest in old coins led to canny investments; he was patronized by Crown Prince Wilhelm, the business expanded into banking, with branches in London & Paris – and the family became a household name Kindle Edition from Sharpe Books [2/2018] for $3.99 Endeavour 8x5 pb [9/2018] for $11.60 Futura mass pb [1975] out of print/used Alfred A. Knopf hardcover [1973] out of print/used Random House/Knopf hardcover [1973] out of print/40+ used
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	"The Mystery of Banking" [1983, rev 2008] by Murray N. Rothbard [1926-95], 2008 Preface by Douglas E. French, 2008 Foreword by Joseph T. Salerno The first eleven chapters of the book unravels how the central bank operates to create money through the fractional-reserve banking system and how this leads to inflation of the money supply and a rise in over-all prices in the economy; subsequent five chapters cover the historical mystery of how an inherently inflationary institution like central banking, which is destructive of the value of money and, in the extreme case of hyperinflation, of money itself, came into being and was accepted as essential to the operation of the market economy Dead Authors Society 11x8½ pb [12/2020] for $11.95 Terra Libertas Ltd pb [2011] out of print/used Ludwig von Mises Institute hardcover [9/2008] for $24.54 E.P. Dutton hardcover [1983] out of print/used
	"The Business of Investment Banking: A Comprehensive Overview" [1999] by K. Thomas Liaw, PhD - Department of Economics & Finance at St. John's University Already a staple of industry training programs and a valued reference among banking professionals, these revised editions add a wealth of new information to this indispensable practical resource Kindle Edition from Wiley & Sons [10/2011] for $51.00 {sic} Wiley & Sons 3rd edition 10x7 hardcover [10/2011] for $72.49 {sic} Wiley & Sons 2nd edition 10½x7¼ hardcover [12/2005] out of print/used
	"A History of Money and Banking In The United States: The Colonial Era To World War II" [2002] by Murray N. Rothbard [1926-95], Edited & with An Introduction by Joseph T. Salerno compilation of writings by anarcho-capitalist economist Rothbard, who died 7 years prior Kindle Edition from Ludwig von Mises Institute [10/2010] for $3.99 Ludwig von Mises Institute pb [8/2002] out of print/used Ludwig von Mises Institute hardcover [8/2002] for $22.95
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	"Money Makers: Inside The New World of Finance and Business" [2010] by David Snider & Dr. Chris Howard Illuminates the histories, mechanics, operations & challenges of investment banking, venture capital, private equity, hedge funds, management consulting, and the management of Fortune 500 companies. Palgrave Macmillan hardcover [2/2010] for $18.48
	"Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy" [2011] by Murray N. Rothbard [1926‑95], Introduction by Anthony Gregory and an Afterword by Justin Raimondo Fiery 108-page monograph that shows how wealthy elites are only able to manipulate world affairs via their connections to state power. Kindle Edition from Ludwig von Mises Institute [6/2011] for $2.99 Ludwig von Mises Institute 9x6 pb [11/2016] for $4.00 {sic}
	"Boom and Bust Banking: The Causes and Cures of The Great Recession" [2012] Edited by David Beckworth Kindle Edition from Independent Institute [10/2012] for $17.99 Independent Institute 9x6 pb [10/2012] for $22.80 official book page at Independent Institute
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	"Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles" [2020] by William Quinn & John D. Turner Visits to Paris & London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s, and Shanghai in the 2000s help us to understand why bubbles happen, and why some have catastrophic economic, social, and political consequences whilst others have actually benefited society Kindle Edition from Cambridge Univ Press [8/2020] for $10.99 Cambridge Univ Press 8x5 pb [10/2021] for $16.95 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [8/2020] for $15.60
	"Gonzo Wall Street: Riots, Radicals, Racism, and Revolution - How The Go-Go Bankers of The 1960s Crashed The Financial System and Bamboozled Washington" [2022] by Richard E. Farley A story of corruption and financial malfeasance that unfolds throughout the tumultuous 1960s, during the administrations of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon - with a surprising cast of famous and infamous characters: Abbie Hoffman, Roy M. Cohn, Ross Perot, Donald Regan, Michael Bloomberg, Felix Rohaytn, Sandy Weill, Ken Langone, and many others. Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster/Regan Arts [8/2022] for $14.99 Simon & Schuster/Regan Arts 9x6 hardcover [10/2022] for $32.00

	"The Money Changers" [1908] by Upton Sinclair [1878-1968] A novel about the Wall Street Panic of 1907, a financial disaster brought on deliberately by powerful banking barons intent upon the ruin of their rivals. Kindle Edition from Public Domain Books [6/2004 edition] for FREE! Dodo Press 8¾x5¾ pb [10/2007] for $1.50 {sic} Aegypan 9x6 hardcover [9/2006] for $24.95
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	"Fool's Gold: How The Bold Dream of A Small Tribe At J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted By Wall Street Greed and Unleashed A Catastrophe" [2009] New York Times & Wall Street Journal bestseller by Gillian Tett Free Press 8½x6½ pb [4/2010] for $11.29 Abacus pb [5/2010] out of print/used Little, Brown export edition 9¼x6 pb [3/2009] - overpriced Free Press 9x6 hardcover [5/2009] for $23.90 "Gusha No O'gon: Daibo'so' o Unda Kin'yu' Gijutsu" Japanese-language edition [2009] Translated by Koji Hirao & Nami Hijikata Nihon Keizai Shinbun Shuppansha 7½x5½ tankoban pb [10/2009] for $61.44 "L'Or des Fous" French-language edition [2011] Kindle Edition from Jardin Des Livres [5/2015] for $9.99 Jardin Des Livres 9¼x5¾ pb [1/2013] for $25.16
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