Bagehot
Americannoun
noun
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In a financial panic, Bagehot prescribes, a central bank should lend freely to solvent banks against good collateral at a high rate of interest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
Some 150 years ago, the acclaimed constitutional writer Walter Bagehot wrote that the British monarchy needed reverence and mystery.
From Reuters • Jan. 10, 2023
Victorian-era economist and essayist Walter Bagehot would very strongly disapprove.
From Washington Post • Sep. 19, 2022
The interactions between what the 19th Century writer Walter Bagehot described as the "dignified" and "efficient" elements of a constitution - illustrated in the UK's model of governance.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2022
Mr. Bagehot dwells exclusively upon the unfavourable incidents of a royal education.
From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various
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