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Informationen zum Autor Jeremy Wormell worked in the gilt-edged market in London. His previous publications on the fixed-interest markets have been The Giltedged Market (1985), The Gilt-edged Market Compendium (1989) and National Debt in Britain 1850–1930 (1999). Zusammenfassung This impressive and pioneering work describes and analyses the managemet of the national debt of the United Kingdom from the Boer War (1899-1902) to the period of the great depression in the early 1930s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I The foundations of the twentieth-century debt; Chapter 1 Sinking funds, annuities and savings banks; Chapter 2 An Edwardian debt; Part II The Great War; Chapter 3 Lloyd George’s Loan; Chapter 4 McKenna’s Conversion; Chapter 5 The small saver and continuous borrowing; Chapter 6 The beginning of overseas borrowing and the Anglo-French Loan; Chapter 7 The year of drift; Chapter 8 The year of drift; Chapter 9 External borrowing 1917–18; Chapter 10 External borrowing 1917–18; Chapter 11 Bonar Law’s Loans; Chapter 12 National War Bonds and continuous borrowing; Part III Repayment, refinancing, conversion and funding; Chapter 13 Victory and Funding; Chapter 14 The struggle for internal control, 1919–23; Chapter 15 The external market and Canada; Chapter 16 The debt to the US Treasury and the Blackett–Rathbone talks; Chapter 17 The Balfour Note and the Baldwin Settlement; Chapter 18 The price of indebtedness,1924–31; Chapter 19 The great conversion; Chapter 20 Savings Certificates, savings banks and capital advances; Chapter 21 Debt repayment and the sinking funds; Chapter 22 The development of market management;
