Banking, Currency and Foreign Exchange

Banking As A Public Service by Sir Edmund Walker

May 25, 2009

BANKING AS A PUBLIC SERVICE By SIR EDMUND WALKER, C.V.O. PRESIDENT OF THE CANADIAN BANK OP COMMERCE, TORONTO ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE NEW YORK STATE BANKERS’ ASSOCIATION AT BUFFALO, N.Y., JUNE, 1912. We are daily reminded that we live in a time of rapid and often precipitate change. The sixty or seventy centuries of...

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An Analysis of the Banking and Currency System of the United States Indicating the Cause of Periodic Panics and Suggesting A Remedy by Chas W Disbrow

May 25, 2009

….INTRODUCTION…. This pamphlet is designed to show that the periodic financial panics in the United States result from certain fixed and specific causes, and that an analysis of these causes indicates that the approach of such panics may be clearly noted and effectually prevented. It is designed to show that of the existing currency...

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Abnormal Features of Amercian Banking by B E Walker

May 24, 2009

ABNORMAL FEATURES OF AMERICAN BANKING. ADDRESS BY B. E. WALKER, PRESIDENT OF THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE, GIVEN AT THE MEETING OF THE AMERICAN BANKERS’ ASSOCIATION, DENVER, COLORADO, 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1908. Somebody once said to a celebrated English statesman, renowned for his clear perceptions of all economic subjects, “I suppose you understand all about...

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Cause and Cure of Hard Times

May 24, 2009

PREVIEW It is an essential part of the case of the silver men that the country is having “hard times.” The bolters from the Republican convention say, in their manifesto: “Discontent and distress prevail to an extent never before known in the history of the country.” This is an historical assertion. It is distinctly...

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A Report on the Currency

May 20, 2009

A Series of Weekly Meetings of friends of a Sound Currency began September 23d, 1858, in the rooms of the Mercantile Library Association, Clinton Hall, New York, Jambs Gallatin, Esq., residing. In addition to citizens of New York and Brooklyn, gentlemen from Boston, Salem, Louisville, Lexington, and other places, were present at one or...

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A Financial Chapter in the History of Bombay City

In 1897 the Editor of the Advocate of India invited me to contribute to its columns a narrative of the rise, growth and collapse...

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The New York Stock Exchange; a Discussion of the Business Done, Its Relation to Other Business, To Investment, Speculation and Gambling by H S Martin

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

What Our Problem Is There are available for purchase or sale securities of the widest possible variety, issued by countless corporations, municipalities, states, nations,...

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Twenty-One Years in the Boston Stock Market by Joseph Gregory Martin

PREFATORY REMARKS In the present work the compiler has aimed to furnish a full and reliable history of the several stocks in the Boston...

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The Stock Market Barometer : A Study of Its Forecast Value Based on Charles H. Dow’s Theory of the Price Movement

CYCLES AND STOCK MARKET RECORDS AN English economist whose unaffected humanity always made him remarkably readable, the late William Stanley Jevons, propounded the theory...

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