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Matthew Parris
@froggermtp
Hobson’s choice.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Edmund Scot who came aboard from the Bantam factory. His ‘extraordinarie
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
M+C Morgan
@mcmorgan
Jack White
@jackmileswhite
Patrick
@palomalley
John
@jjc
John Scull
@jlscull
J. S. Morgan’s core business was short-term trade finance, “discounting bills,” as it was called. Its primary customers were American cotton or iron merchants. They typically sold their goods on credit, taking back a piece of paper, or “bill of exchange,” which could be cashed at a specific bank such as Barings at some set future date. If a merchan
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