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Lehman Brothers
 
Liang, Qiao
 
Limbaugh, Rush
 
Long-Term Capital Management, 1998 bailout of
 
Louvre Accord, 1987
 
Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio
 
 
McCarthy, Cormac
 
MacMillan, Margaret
 
Maastricht Treaty of 1992
 
Madison, James
 
Mandelbrot, Benoît
 
Mantega, Guido
 
Mao Zedong
 
marginal returns
 
MARKINT
 
Markowitz, Harry
 
Martin, William McChesney
 
Medvedev, Dmitry
 
Meltzer, Alan
 
mercantilism
 
Merkel, Angela
 
Merrill Lynch
 
Merton, Robert C.
 
Merton, Robert K.
 
Mexico
 
Milgram, Stanley
 
Miller, Alexey
 
Miller, Merton
 
momentum investing
 
monetarism
 
money
 
banking system definitions of
 
treating SDRs as
 
Morgan, J. P.
 
Morgan Stanley
 
Morgenthau, Henry
 
mortgage crisis, U.S.
 
Moscow
 
multinational corporations
 
multiple reserve currencies
 
multiplier theory, Keynesian
 
 
Nabucco
 
NASA
 
National City Bank of New York
 
National Economists Club, Washington, D.C.
 
National Export Initiative, U.S.
 
National Monetary Commission
 
natural gas industry, Russia’s
 
Netherlands
 
New Economic Policy, 1971, Nixon’s
 
Nixon, Richard M.
 
Nixon Shock of 1971
 
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
 
normal distribution of risk
 
Norman, Montagu
 
Norman v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.
 
North Korea
 
Norton, Charles D.
 
 
Obama, Barack
 
and China’s President Hu
 
and IMF’s SDR dollar replacement strategy
 
National Export Initiative
 
2008 to 2010 stimulus programs
 
and U.S. attack on Japanese yen
 
O’Donnell, Bill
 
over-the-counter derivatives
 
 
Pacific theater, dollar-yuan relationship
 
Page, Scott
 
Palazzo Corsini, Rome
 
Panic of 1890
 
Panic of 1907
 
Panic of 1931
 
Panic of 2008
 
bailouts during
 
Brazil and
 
exchange rate disputes
 
Federal Reserve and lender of last resort function in
 
G20 and
 
gold and money supply in aftermath of
 
liquidity shortages from losses in
 
money velocity in
 
SWF investments in
 
U.S. and China in
 
value at risk role in cause of
 
and Wall Street’s risk evaluation methods
 
paper currencies
 
Dubai as largest transshipment point for
 
gold backing for paper money
 
gold vs. paper money
 
paper-gold ratio during World War I
 
paper SDR
 
paper gold
 
Paris 1919
(MacMillan)
 
Paris Peace Conference of 1919
 
Pentagon, U.S.
 
People’s Bank of China (PBOC)
 
People’s Liberation Army (China)
 
Pépin, Jean-Luc
 
Peterson, Peter G.
 
phase transitions, in complex system
 
Plaza Accord, 1985
 
Poland
 
Pompidou, Georges
 
Portugal
 
price-gold-flow mechanism
 
price-specie-flow mechanism
 
primary dealers
 
private enterprise
 
prospect theory
 
protectionism
 
Putin, Vladimir
 
 
quantitative easing (QE)
 
Ray, Chris
 
Reagan, Ronald
 
real estate bubble of 2002 to 2007
 
recessions, U.S.
 
1970s to 1980s
 
of 2001
 
of 2007
 
See also
Panic of 2008
 
regional currency blocs
 
Reichsbank
 
reichsmark
 
rent seeking
 
rentenmark
 
reserve currencies
 
risk, in complex systems
 
risk aversion
 
Road, The
(McCarthy)
 
Rockefeller, John D., Jr.
 
Romer, Christina D.
 
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
 
Rothkopf, David
 
Rousseff, Dilma
 
Rubin, Robert
 
Russia
 
 
Samuels, Nathaniel
 
Samuelson, Paul
 
San Francisco earthquake, 1906
 
Sarkozy, Nicolas
 
Schacht, Hjalmar
 
Schiff, Jacob H.
 
Scholes, Myron
 
Schumer, Charles E.
 
Schwartz, Alan
 
Second Bank of the United States
 
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks of
 
Shakespeare, William
 
Sharpe, William
 
Shultz, George P.
 
Slovic, Paul
 
Smith, Adam
 
Smithsonian Agreement
 
social media
 
social psychology, on economics
 
Soros, George
 
South Korea
 
sovereign debt crisis of 2010, European
 
sovereign wealth funds (SWFs)
 
Spain
 
special drawing rights (SDRs)
 
stagflation
 
state capitalism
 
sterling
 
crisis of 1992
 
devaluations
 
and gold exchange standard
 
Stiglitz, Joseph
 
stimulus, Keynesian
 
stimulus programs, Obama’s
 
stock market crash
 
critical state system of a
 
of October 19, 1987
 
Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED)
 
Strategic Command, U.S. (STRATCOM)
 
Strauss-Kahn, Dominque
 
Strong, Benjamin
 
subprime mortgage crisis, U.S.
 
Sun Tzu
 
Superclass
(Rothkopf)
 
supercurrencies
 
supernotes
 
Svensson, Lars
 
Switzerland
 
 
Taft, William H.
 
Tainter, Joseph A.
 
Taiwan
 
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
 
tariffs
 
Tauss, Randy
 
Taylor, John B.
 
Taylor rule
 
Tea Party movement
 
tech bubble collapse of 2000
 
Temin, Peter
 
Thailand
 
Time
magazine
 
Tobin, James
 
Toronto Star
 
Trade Act, U.S. 1988
 
trade deficits
 
Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917
 
Treasury, U.S.
 
and bailout of 2008
 
China’s accumulation of Treasury debt
 
China’s purchases of Treasury bonds
 
China’s U.S. Treasury holdings
 
currency manipulation charges against China
 
and dollar-yuan exchange rate
 
exchange stabilization fund
 
Federal Reserve IOUs to
 
on gold exports
 
gold reserve, increased value of
 
and 1930s nationalization of gold mines
 
quantitative easing and Treasury bills
 
SWFs and Treasury bills
 
Treaty of Versailles
 
Tripartite Agreement of 1936
 
Tversky, Amos
 
twilight of sovereignty
 
Tymoshenko, Yulia
 
 
UBS
 
unemployment
 
United Kingdom.
See
England
 
United Nations
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