All transatlantic steamship lines last week decided to make some money by charging $2,500 for carrying a million dollars worth of gold ingots across the water. Previous rate: $1,875. At the same time all big New York banks flatly refused to act as agents for the shipment of gold coins to Europe. France, for all her touted gold standard, will not give Jean Frenchman any gold coins. Her central bank will pay gold in nothing less than $8,000 lots. Therefore the French peasantry, which has taken the...
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