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Considerations on a new monetary system for China

May 22, 2010

Purpose of the pamphlet.— The Commission on International Exchange published at Shanghai a pamphlet, “Memoranda on a New Monetary System for China,” prepared by Mr. Jenks. In that pamphlet were given the reasons why the United States Government had appointed the Commission on International Exchange, a very brief outline of the plan which was...

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A Financial Chapter in the History of Bombay City

May 18, 2010

In 1897 the Editor of the Advocate of India invited me to contribute to its columns a narrative of the rise, growth and collapse of that colossal speculation popularly known in Bombay as the ” share mania,” a mania which in its ultimate consequences was more disastrous than either the South Sea Bubble Scheme,...

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On Chinese currency, preliminary remarks about the monetary reform in China

March 28, 2010

INTRODUCTION Great difficulty was frequently experienced in the course of this work in clearly distinguishing between different notions which had to be expressed by means of one and the same term in English. I have attempted to solve this difficulty by printing a genus with a small letter and a species with a capital...

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Advance India

February 18, 2010

PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR THE first part of this book has been written mainly for English readers ; the seven chapters that follow mainly for Indians. These chapters were contributed in the first instance in the form of special articles to leading newspapers and reviews in India, and are now reproduced in book form...

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A Study on the Central Bank of Japan by Itsuo Hamaoka

February 9, 2010
A Study on the Central Bank of Japan by Itsuo Hamaoka

INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY THE AUTHOR The attention of the people of the United States at the present time is drawn, with ever increasing interest, to the commercial and financial institutions of foreign countries. This is due, primarily, to the fact that the industrial growth of this country has brought her to the point when...

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A Financial Chapter in the History of Bombay City

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FOREWORD The New York Stock Exchange can The be said to have been begun 125 years. Beginning ago 100 years of which it has...

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The Essential Features of Securities by Byron Webber Holt

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