F

Fairchild, Charles S., 194, 198

Fairchild, Sidney T., 194

Fairman, Charles, 152

Falkner, Roland P., 221

Farben, I.G., 344

Farley, James A., 467

Farm prices

agitation for higher, 297, 456, 283

agricultural relief agency, 284

boom of 1880s, 166, 283

farm support for inflation, 287, 297–99, 432

Farrer, Gaspard, 365

Farwell, John V., 255

Fascism, 30

Faulkner, Roland P., 221n

Federal Advisory Council (FAC), 338

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), 338–39

Federal Farm Loan Board (FFLB), 285–86, 289

Federal Intermediate Credit System, 286

Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), 14, 319, 340

Federal Reserve Bank, 209, 250, 254, 257–58, 318–19, 337, 340–42, 371, 425, 426

Act of 1913

bailout of German Reichsbank, 286–87

Bank of England and, 368

efforts to help England, 423

credit policies of, 424

credit restraints removed, 341

easy money and bank failures, 426

effort to prevent gold inflow, 414

failure to control stock market boom, 418

failure of, 416, 445

fallacious qualitativist view, 419

favors granted to large banks, 247

monetary expansion by, 274

open market operations, complete control of, 340

origins of, 34, 39–40, 42, 190, 208

purpose of, 37, 368

spurious veil of regionalism, 247

stock market, deliberate stimulation of, 417

transfer power to political appointees in Washington, 318

veto power over district bank elections, 341

“Federal trough,” beginnings of, 59

Federalists

criticism of, 69n

support for central banks, 70–72, 83, 92, 101

Federation of British Industries, 362–64

Fels, Samuel S., 298, 454

Ferguson, E. James, 60n–61n

Ferguson, Thomas, 266, 308, 379, 433

Ferrell, H., 460

Fetter, Frank W., 358

Fiat money. See Money

Field, Marshall, 198, 255

Financial and Economic Committee

establishment of central banks, 393

goals of, 391–92

reconstruction of Central and Eastern Europe, 391

Financial elites, 263

abortive attempts by, 41

advising governments, science of, 231

establishment agrees more money needed, 288

force behind Fed creation, 258

interrelations of major financial groupings, 263

Financial panic of 1884, 160

Finland, 398, 398n

Finney, Charles, 172

Fish, Stuyvesant, 194

Fisher, Irving, 95, 246, 337, 390, 448, 466, 473

as inflationist, 303–04, 449, 453–56

Fleming, Lamar, 346, 486

Fletcher, Duncan, 314

Flynn, John T., 293

Forgan, James B., 237, 246–48, 252, 256

Founding Fathers, 65, 211

Fowler Bill, 205–06, 234

Fowler, Charles N., 205

Fowler, Samuel, 136n

France, 399, 407, 409–10, 411, 430

legend as spoiler, 407

monetary and fiscal reforms, 407–08

Frankfurter, Felix, 293, 322, 322n, 323n

Frazier, Frederic H., 298, 454

Frederickson, George, 136n

French Revolution, 358

Frères, Lazard, 278–79, 456

Frey, John P., 448

Friedman, Milton, 34–39, 35n, 55n, 134–35, 162, 166, 169

Fries, J.W., 194