16 FEBRUARY 1929, page 34

Finance Public And Private

Bank Rate So much that is unnecessarily alarming, and, indeed, it might be said so much that is absurd, has been written with regard to the recent rise in the Bank of England......

Beginning Of The Boom.

As a consequence, however, of this improvement in the general international situation, international trade began also to improve and many industrial concerns began to enjoy......

A Necessary Retrospect.

Even to those who do not follow financial affairs very -closely, it is a matter of _fairly general knowledge that, as a consequence of the War and the developments following the......

The Banker's Responsibility.

Again, and in view of the nonsense which has been talked in some quarters with regard to the monetary authorities, whether here or in the United States, having no right to......

Liberty : Its Responsibilities.

Moreover, in desiring to obtain a fair and a common- sense view of the situation, it is very necessary to appre- ciate all that is involved in the liberty of. the individual to......

A Changed Position.

Up to the spring of last year, notwithstanding American 'activity in lending abroad, the value of money in New York was well below that of this country, but as the boom in Wall......

Wry The Rate Rose.

• Ostensibly the prime cause of the rise in the Bank Rate was the fact:that within a period of five months the Bank • of England has lost nearly £27,000,000 in gold, and for......

New York The Storm Centre.

Thanks, however, to the skill with which the Bank of England had accumulated large amounts of gold in the . early part of last year, it was possible to meet the situation for a......