I

Ickes, Harold, 330

Imperialism, 212, 219–22, 251

consent of governed, 211

dollar, 43, 437, 477

economic benefits of, 213

financial, 386, 443

increased centralization of administrative power, 216

sponsors of, 218

surplus capital and, 208

Indianapolis Board of Trade, 190

Indianapolis Monetary Convention, 188–201, 204–07, 236, 252–53, 256

Inflation, 285

dollar, 487–88

economics of, 272, 424

general assets, as base of, 236

nostrums, main sponsors of, 58

paper money schemes, 50, 58

rise in prices and, 69

Treasury notes, to finance war, 75

Insull, Samuel, 329–30

International Clearing Union, 481

International Harvester, 255, 263

International Monetary Fund (IMF), 339n, 482–85

International monetary order, 42, 232, 307, 389, 351, 352, 374, 483–89

cheap money, seduced by, 425

efforts to reconstruct, 356, 368, 437, 439, 465–67, 469, 476, 478

monetary chaos and, 352, 431

pre–World War I, 437–38

restoration of, 356

Interstate Commerce Commission, 184, 186

Investment Bankers’ Association, 328

Investment Bankers Code Committee, 329

Investment Bankers Conference Committee, 329

Iron and Steel Association, 148