The Value of MoneyAnderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester)
General
The Value of Money
Anderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester)
Money
Do manufacturers' receipts from first sales belong in the wholesale
deposits, or must they be counted as a separate item? Dean Kinley does
not say. In his list of items, as reported by banks, that go in the "all
other" deposits,[268] he does not mention manufacturers, and the item is
far too important not to have been mentioned by so careful a writer had
he supposed that it belonged there. If manufacturers' first receipts
belong, not in the wholesale deposits, but in the "all other" deposits,
then we should expect manufacturing cities to show a high percentage of
"all other" deposits as compared with wholesale deposits. The city of
Pittsburg should be a good test case. The figures there, for State and
national banks and trust companies, are:
_Per Cent._
Retail deposits $1,061,420 9.6
Wholesale deposits 3,368,004 29.7
"All other" deposits 6,672,378 60.6
For Pittsburg, the percentage of "all other" deposits is lower decidedly
than the percentage for the country as a whole (about 75%), much lower
than for cities where there is active speculation, as Chicago and St.
Louis, to say nothing of New York, and is closer to the percentage of
the South Atlantic States, 52%, than to the average for the country. The
wholesale deposits of Pittsburg, however, rise to 29.7%, as against an
average for the country of 17%. There is nothing in these figures to
suggest that manufacturers' first receipts are exclusively in the "all
other" deposits. I should think it safe to hold that a substantial part
of them were included in wholesale deposits, and so already accounted
for in our estimate. The total value of products manufactured in 1909
was $20,672,051,870. I shall allow $5,672,051,870 of this to have been
already accounted for in our estimate of wholesale trade, and count 15
billions of it as a separate item. If there is an error here, it is very
much more than offset by our failure to subtract anything from the
wholesale figures for speculation. I think it probable that much more of
the figures for manufactures should be assigned to the wholesale figures
than I have assigned.
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