Comments on: Ouvrard’s experience helped loosen the purse-strings of other bankers https://www.isegoria.net/2024/09/ouvrards-experience-helped-loosen-the-purse-strings-of-other-bankers/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 11 Nov 2026 17:50:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Jim https://www.isegoria.net/2024/09/ouvrards-experience-helped-loosen-the-purse-strings-of-other-bankers/comment-page-1/#comment-3712215 Jim Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:12:48 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=51934#comment-3712215 Since Napoleon, banker-defying statesmen have done substantially less well. Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Adolf Hitler, John F. Kennedy, Muammar Gaddafi…the list marcheth onward.

Occasionally, for a time, there is an exception.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fmcIrsPH1FU

]]> By: Bruce https://www.isegoria.net/2024/09/ouvrards-experience-helped-loosen-the-purse-strings-of-other-bankers/comment-page-1/#comment-3712178 Bruce Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:27:16 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=51934#comment-3712178 Napoleonic paper currency was put out of business by a herculean counterfeiting effort by William Playfair, mentioned in Isegoria for his amazing knack for graphs:
https://www.isegoria.net/2008/05/magic-ink/

Bruce Berkowitz wrote a good biography of Playfair, titled ‘Playfair’. James Watt used Playfair as a draftsman, which he was great at, but first he chased Watt’s patent infringers, then he did the patriotic counterfeiting, then he took on and lost to the Bank of England. Give or take some land fraud implicating America’s Founding Fathers he slowed down after that.

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