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The Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 11 No. 1 1929

The Money Market in 1928

W. Randolph Burgess

Abstract

F OLLOWING several years of relatively easy money, the year I928 was marked by a more vigorous upward movement of interest rates than any year since the post-war inflation period. The discount rates of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and of a number of other reserve banks were raised three times in the course of the year, carrying these rates from 3'2 per cent at the beginning of the year to 5 per cent at the end. The relative levels of money rates at the two year-ends are shown in the following table: (Per Cctt)

DOI
10.2307/1927256
Volume
11
Issue
1
Pages
19
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