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Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • relate the amount of currency that we had outstanding in the United States to the gold that we possessed. Originally, when the Federal Reserve Act was enacted back in 1913, they put currency and bank deposits-you had to keep a certain gold reserve