Northern Entrepreneur's Counterfeiting of Confederate Currency and the Impact it Had on Inflation

Download or read book Northern Entrepreneur's Counterfeiting of Confederate Currency and the Impact it Had on Inflation written by Raymond Rector and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The thesis, 'Northern Entrepreneur's Counterfeiting of Confederate Currency and the Impact it had on Inflation' takes an in depth look at the history of counterfeiting the currency of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War by entrepreneurs who saw the introduction of a new currency as an opportunity to profit. The thesis begins by providing background information on several major counterfeiters and their actions before and during the Civil War, as well as other sources of counterfeit bills not normally considered by scholars. The thesis also looks at the effects that this illegitimate increase in the money supply may have had on inflation in the South during the Civil War as well as the legal ramifications that the counterfeiter's actions had in the North"--Provided by the author.