Excerpt from The War and Our Financial Fabric In this work I attempt to gather up some of the lessons to be learnt from the experiences of the greatest of financial crises. Many predictions have been unrealized and many theories destroyed, and we are able, I think, to see with greater clearness and to grasp with more boldness the problems that perplexed us in the past. Banking, credit and currency problems have ever been subjects of contentious controversy, experts and academic critics alike being unable to agree upon their reading of phemena and upon right interpretations. The problems are indisputably complex, the most complex, probably, in the vast domain of ecomics, and vision and logic have t guided us with sureness amidst their intricacies. Hence we have groped and gone our different ways, finding ourselves at common goal. Royal Commissions have been asked for in order to tackle and, if possible, to find solutions that will be universally acceptable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.