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Raguet, Condy, 82, 91

Railroads

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, 199, 239, 247n

Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, 454

Birmingham Railroad, 194

Camden and Amboy Railroad, 153

Erie Railroad, 207n

Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company, 265

Missouri Pacific Railroad, 195, 292

Morris and Essex Railroad, 153

New York Central Railroad, 194, 207, 217, 265, 372

Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, 153

Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railroad, 191

Rand, James H., 298, 304, 448

Raskob, John J., 311n, 313

Recession

always follows boom, 187, 272, 281, 355, 361

bank credit increased in, 197, 201, 207

colonial era, 55, 65, 100

of 1907, 240

of 1920–21, 272–73, 281, 283, 358–61, 379, 395

of 1929–31, 272–74, 402, 424–25

recoveries from, 425

Reconstruction Finance Corporatiion (RFC), 288–95, 288n

Rediscount rate, 414, 419, 423, 426

Reed, David A., 457

Reform of the Currency, 250–51

Remington Rand Company, 298, 448, 454

Republican Party

party of great moral idea, 174

upheaval of, 175–76

state, changing role in, 172–74

ongoing transformation, 170–71See alsoPietism

Resumption Act of January 1875, 151

Review of Reviews, 216

Reynolds, Arthur, 237

Reynolds, George M., 237, 245, 247, 254

Reynolds, Jackson E., 276, 427

Ricardo, David, 82, 210

Ricardian Currency School, 91

Ridgely, William B., 206, 243

Riefler, Winfield W., 335

Rist, Charles, 407

Roberts, George E., 243, 249, 255

Robey, Ralph W., 415, 449

Rockefeller forces, 298, 300–02, 309

CFR and, 347

Committee for the Nation, behind-the-scenes role in, 307–08

Morgan, resentment of, 308

Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 204–07, 206n, 244, 266, 302n, 309–10

Rockefeller, John D., Sr., 201, 207

Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich, 206n

Rockefeller, William, 207

Rockoff, Hugh, 113n

Rogers, James Harvey, 473

Roman Catholicism, 173–77

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 188, 265, 298–99, 300, 306, 310, 322, 372, 448, 450, 454–56

abandon gold-coin standard, 297, 301, 303–04, 308, 431, 453–58, 466

academic economists and, 453

Atlantic Conference and, 345

banking influence, 456

bombshell message, famous, 307

Committee for the Nation, influence of, 454–55

early monetary appointments, 301

Fisher influence and, 453–55, 465–67

Roosevelt Cabinet, 300

unscrupulous money changers and, 314

Roosevelt, Theodore, 188n, 192, 199, 209, 216, 225, 229, 263, 300

Root, L. Carroll, 195

Root, Oren, 331n

Root, Elihu, 221, 228, 243, 251, 267–69, 289, 380, 422

Röpke, Wilhelm, 487n

Rosenwald, Julius, 255

Rosenwald, Lessing J., 298, 454

Rothbard, Murray N., 7–41

approach to monetary history, 7, 10–11, 11n, 23–24, 30–34

theoretical guide, 24–26, 30, 33

Round Table, 363–64

Rovensky, John E., 448

Rovere, Richard, 347n

Royal Commission on Indian Finance and Currency, 389

Royal Economic Society, 388

Rueff, Jacques, 487n, 489

Rueff Plan, 490

Rumsey, Mary Harriman, 300n–01n

Rylands, Peter, 363