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    banking


    1. She had, after all, met her husband at a banking conference in Switzerland many years before and the sight of so many white crosses immediately made her smell a rat


    2. banking conference in Switzerland many years before and the sight


    3. Ava was banking on slipping into the next one unnoticed because the planets they would settle would have never produced souls before, so the creature in that area wouldn’t search for silicon intervention in the harvest of those souls


    4. But the annual produce of the land and labour of the country had before required only one million to circulate and distribute it to its proper consumers, and that annual produce cannot be immediately augmented by those operations of banking


    5. That the greater part of the gold and silver which being forced abroad by those operations of banking, is employed in purchasing foreign goods for home consumption, is, and must be, employed in purchasing those of this second kind, seems not only probable, but almost unavoidable


    6. But the revenue of idle people, considered as a class or order, cannot, in the smallest degree, be increased by those operations of banking


    7. The demand of idle people, therefore, for foreign goods, being the same, or very nearly the same as before, a very small part of the money which, being forced abroad by those operations of banking, is employed in purchasing foreign goods for home consumption, is likely to be employed in purchasing those for their use


    8. An operation of this kind has, within these five-and-twenty or thirty years, been performed in Scotland, by the erection of new banking companies in almost every considerable town, and even in some country villages


    9. The business of the country is almost entirely carried on by means of the paper of those different banking companies, with which purchases and payments of all kinds are commonly made


    10. The commerce of Scotland, which at present is not very great, was still more inconsiderable when the two first banking companies were established ; and those companies would have had but little trade, had they confined their business to the discounting of bills of exchange

    11. But the easy terms upon which the Scotch banking companies accept of repayment are, so far as I know, peculiar to them, and have perhaps been the principal cause, both of the great trade of those companies,and of the benefit which the country has received from it


    12. A banking company which issues more paper than can be employed in the circulation of the country, and of which the excess is continually returning upon them for payment, ought to increase the quantity of gold and silver which they keep at all times in their coffers, not only in proportion to this excessive increase of their circulation, but in a much greater proportion; their notes returning upon them much faster than in proportion to the excess of their quantity


    13. Had every particular banking company always understood and attended to its own particular interest, the circulation never could have been overstocked with paper money


    14. But every particular banking company has not always understood or attended to its own particular interest, and the circulation has frequently been overstocked with paper money


    15. But a banking company, which lends money to perhaps five hundred different people, and of which the attention is continually occupied by objects of a very different kind, can have no regular information concerning the conduct and circumstances of the greater part of its debtors, beyond what its own books afford it


    16. In requiring frequent and regular repayments from all their customers, the banking companies of Scotland had probably this advantage in view


    17. This second advantage, though equally real, was not, perhaps, so well understood by all the different banking companies in Scotland as the first


    18. A bank, indeed, which lends its money without the expense of stamped paper, or of attorneys' fees for drawing bonds and mortgages, and which accepts of repayment upon the easy terms of the banking companies of Scotland, would, no doubt, be a very convenient creditor to such traders and undertakers


    19. It is now more than five and twenty years since the paper money issued by the different banking companies of Scotland was fully equal, or rather was somewhat more than fully equal, to what the circulation of the country could easily absorb and employ


    20. They seem to have intended to support the spirited undertakings, for as such they considered them, which were at that time carrying on in different parts of the country ; and, at the same time, by drawing the whole banking business to themselves, to supplant all the other Scotch banks, particularly those established at Edinburgh, whose backwardness in discounting bills of exchange had given some offence

    21. The idea of the possibility of multiplying paper money to almost any extent was the real foundation of what is called the Mississippi scheme, the most extravagant project, both of banking and stock-jobbing, that perhaps the world ever saw


    22. The splendid but visionary ideas which are set forth in that and some other works upon the same principles, still continue to make an impression upon many people, and have, perhaps, in part, contributed to that excess of banking, which has of late been complained of, both in Scotland and in other places


    23. No other banking company in England can be established by act of parliament, or can consist of more than six members


    24. It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country


    25. The judicious operations of banking enable him to convert this dead stock into active and productive stock ; into materials to work upon ; into tools to work with ; and into provisions and subsistence to work for ; into stock which produces something both to himself and to his country


    26. The judicious operations of banking, by substituting paper in the room of a great part of this gold and silver, enable the country to convert a great part of this dead stock into active and productive stock; into stock which produces something to the country


    27. The judicious operations of banking, by providing, if I may be allowed so violent a metaphor, a sort of waggon-way through the air, enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways into good pastures, and corn fields, and thereby to increase, very considerably, the annual produce of its land and labour


    28. The obligation of building party walls, in order to prevent the communication of fire, is a violation of natural liberty, exactly of the same kind with the regulations of the banking trade which are here proposed


    29. The proportion between the price of provisions in Scotland and that in England is the same now as before the great multiplication of banking companies in Scotland


    30. Some years ago the different banking companies of Scotland were in the practice of inserting into their bank notes, what they called an optional clause; by which they promised payment to the bearer, either as soon as the note should be presented, or, in the option of the directors, six months after such presentment, together with the legal interest for the said six months

    31. The promissory notes of those banking companies constituted, at that time, the far greater part of the currency of Scotland, which this uncertainty of payment necessarily degraded below value of gold and silver money


    32. The late multiplication of banking companies in both parts of the united kingdom, an event by which many people have been much alarmed, instead of diminishing, increases the security of the public


    33. Joe had settled into a job as real estate agent after finishing High School, but by the time he was in his mid-thirties, the housing market had become a hard sell for him because of ongoing problems in the nation’s economy and the banking sector


    34. Yet somehow, for some reason, he was seemingly being punished by his corrupt government, or the badly managed economic structure, or the power-mongering banking system, or perhaps even by God himself! Who were the true villains in this nasty, unspeakable situation he had been so unfairly subjected to? Who was to blame! The culprits had to be identified quickly so they could be scolded and punished and then things could be put back the way they were


    35. Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules


    36. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, in consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it


    37. The principal banking companies in Europe, accordingly, are joint-stock companies, many of which manage their trade very successfully without any exclusive privilege


    38. The bank of England has no other exclusive privilege, except that no other banking company in England shall consist of more than six persons


    39. stored in gold or currency any more, but in ones and zeros in banking computers, and Frank was a


    40. He instructed me to take all the cash money for the little jobs like five, ten, or twenty dollars that were paid for without writing a ticket and to keep that in one envelope and not let his wife Paula deposit it on Fridays when she came by to take care of the banking

    41. Canada has never had a banking crash, compared to the US, which had sixteen financial collapses


    42. These wars, along with the failures of capitalism in the Great Recession, and the bailouts of Wall Street, banking, and housing markets, mean there is no financial way to pursue major wars for some time


    43. Standard Bank & Citi Bank is all over Africa and they offer electronic internet banking with very good security functions


    44. Frank was still not convinced that using on-line banking was safe, but didn’t want his face plastered all over the security cameras at the cash machine, so using the password he’d thrown away all those years ago, he logged onto the bank’s website


    45. ) On top of that, the economy had just collapsed in 2007 due to inequality, plus theft and corruption on the part of the banking and housing industries


    46. On the Great Recession, her husband's deregulation played a major role in the housing and banking collapses


    47. The deposition taken from Caroline Steepleton stated that they bounced in Brian Walston’s account in Escazu, where he had been banking for years


    48. By Mid-morning, a reporter from the BBC's convened a debate between the occupation and representatives from the local Chinese Embassy and one of the many Scottish Banking institutions that supported the IMF


    49. They must still communicate electronically with someone, some commercial banking enterprise within the boundaries of civilization


    50. Count von Brechtsler had established himself with the Pilsudski government and became a success at everything from agriculture to banking











































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    "banking" definitions

    engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc.


    transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc.