- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Payments System before World War I
- 3 Treasury Debt Management before World War I
- 4 Treasury Finance during World War I
- 5 Designing the Liberty Loans
- 6 Marketing the Liberty Loans
- 7 Treasury Cash Management: Certificates of Indebtedness
- 8 Treasury Cash Management: War Loan Deposit Accounts
- 9 Federal Reserve Support of the Treasury Market during World War I
- 10 Coda on Treasury Debt Management during World War I
- 11 Treasury Finance during the 1920s
- 12 Paying down the War Debt
- 13 Revival of the Over-the-Counter Market
- 14 Evolution of the Primary Market and the Introduction of Treasury Bills
- 15 Coda on Treasury Debt Management during the 1920s
- 16 Treasury Finance during the Great Depression
- 17 Nonmarketable Treasury Debt
- 18 Treasury Debt Management during the Great Contraction
- 19 Treasury Debt Management during the New Deal
- 20 The Primary Market during the Great Depression
- 21 Statutory Control of Treasury Indebtedness
- 22 The Brief Revival and Subsequent Extinction of National Bank Notes
- 23 Coda on Treasury Debt Management during the Great Depression
- 24 Treasury Debt Management since 1939
- References
- Index
Treasury Cash Management: Certificates of Indebtedness
Treasury Cash Management: Certificates of Indebtedness
- Chapter:
- (p.109) 7 Treasury Cash Management: Certificates of Indebtedness
- Source:
- Birth of a Market
- Author(s):
Kenneth D. Garbade
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
Treasury officials adopted two strategies to ease fluctuations in government balances at the Federal Reserve Banks, which would have otherwise resulted from the immense flows of funds attributable to wartime tax payments and bond sales. The first was to raise (and quickly disburse) money in smaller amounts—several hundred million dollars at a time—by issuing certificates of indebtedness that could be used later to satisfy tax liabilities or to fund bond subscription payments. The second was to redeposit bond and tax receipts in Treasury accounts at commercial banks. This chapter examines the first strategy. Between April 1917 and mid-1919, the Treasury made thirty-three public offerings of bond-anticipation certificates and fourteen public offerings of tax-anticipation certificates. In view of the novelty and unprecedented scale of the operation, the certificate program worked quite well.
Keywords: Treasury bonds, government debt, Federal Reserve Banks, short-term certificates, wartime tax payments, bond sales
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Payments System before World War I
- 3 Treasury Debt Management before World War I
- 4 Treasury Finance during World War I
- 5 Designing the Liberty Loans
- 6 Marketing the Liberty Loans
- 7 Treasury Cash Management: Certificates of Indebtedness
- 8 Treasury Cash Management: War Loan Deposit Accounts
- 9 Federal Reserve Support of the Treasury Market during World War I
- 10 Coda on Treasury Debt Management during World War I
- 11 Treasury Finance during the 1920s
- 12 Paying down the War Debt
- 13 Revival of the Over-the-Counter Market
- 14 Evolution of the Primary Market and the Introduction of Treasury Bills
- 15 Coda on Treasury Debt Management during the 1920s
- 16 Treasury Finance during the Great Depression
- 17 Nonmarketable Treasury Debt
- 18 Treasury Debt Management during the Great Contraction
- 19 Treasury Debt Management during the New Deal
- 20 The Primary Market during the Great Depression
- 21 Statutory Control of Treasury Indebtedness
- 22 The Brief Revival and Subsequent Extinction of National Bank Notes
- 23 Coda on Treasury Debt Management during the Great Depression
- 24 Treasury Debt Management since 1939
- References
- Index
