Corporate Finance

Seventeen Talks On the Banking Question

December 13, 2009
Seventeen Talks On the Banking Question

FOREWORD THIS book is written in the form of a conversation between Uncle Sam and six men of various occupations. It begins with the A, B, C of the subject and by question and answer goes over all the different phases of the subject precisely as you would expect them to arise under such...

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An Outline of the Money Market

December 13, 2009
An Outline of the Money Market

Synopsis 1. The Evolution of the Money Market. 2. The Importance of the Banking Element. 3. The Origin and Development of Banking. 4. Banking and the Bank of England 5. How the Banker Obtains His Funds. 6. How the Banker Uses His Funds. 7. The Bank of England. 8. Management of the Bank of...

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A Fraudulent Standard by Arthur Kitson

December 13, 2009
A Fraudulent Standard by Arthur Kitson

PREFACE The idea expressed and the conclusions arrived at in this work, are the result of many years of careful thought and study, coupled with practical and varied experience of a very busy in connection with industrial, commercial, and financial affairs, both here and abroad. It is now nearly a quarter of a century,...

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English Banking System – Its Development and Some Practical Problems It Has To Solve by George H Pownall

May 31, 2009
English Banking System – Its Development and Some Practical Problems It Has To Solve by George H Pownall

PREFACE By Professor H. S Foxwell MR. POWNALL has asked me to write a few words of preface to this issue in printed form of three lectures delivered by him at the London School of Economics last February. Such a request, coming from a colleague and an old friend, it was impossible to refuse....

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Bank Loans and Stock Exchange Speculation

May 31, 2009
Bank Loans and Stock Exchange Speculation

Attention has been repeatedly called to the vicious circle in which the American money market moves; how the volume of banking credit is rigidly inelastic, being determined as to circulation by bonds and securities and as to loans and discounts by a fixed ratio to legal reserve; how the surplus funds which piled up...

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Elementary Banking by Howard Wolfe

May 31, 2009
Elementary Banking by Howard Wolfe

Preface by O’Howard Wolfe This book is not the result of any preconceived theories on methods of education in banking. Neither does it make any pretense of being complete as to the subjects covered nor exhaustive in its treatment of them. It is based on fifteen years of practical experience, beginning with a small...

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Courses of Study in Corporation Finance and Investment by Lyon Hastings

May 31, 2009
Courses of Study in Corporation Finance and Investment by Lyon Hastings

Prefatory by Lyon Hastings About two years ago at the written request of several members of the Investment Bankers Association, the Board of Governors appointed a Special Committee consisting of Lawrence Chamberlain, Chairman, EW Bulkley and A.W Bullard, to consider the expediency of compiling and printing a text or texts of subject matter relating...

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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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