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Wartime Financial Moratorium

Great Britain · Economy / Banking. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1914

David Lloyd George3 August 1914

London · Economy / Banking

Emergency bank holidays and debt moratoria help contain financial panic at the outbreak of war.

Names involved

David Lloyd George

Provenance

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