Market Panics / Crashes

A Neglected Point In Connection With Crises by Johannsen

March 8, 2010

INTRODUCTORY The black central field and the red ring, together, represent the country’s money supply; consisting partly of coin, or certificates backed by coin; partly of bank notes; and partly of bank money (deposits in commercial banks, “money in bank”). The black central field represents such of the country’s cash funds as are available...

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A Century of Finance : Martin’s History of the Boston Stock and Money Markets

February 12, 2010
A Century of Finance : Martin’s History of the Boston Stock and Money Markets

PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR The present edition of this work covers 1 00 years of the History of the Boston Stock and Money Markets ; naturally sparse of material in the earlier dates, but the record is complete ; and it will be noted (see page 9, and tables pages 94-183) that there were...

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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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Benner’s Prophecies of Future Ups and Downs in Prices by Samuel Benner

May 31, 2009
Benner’s Prophecies of Future Ups and Downs in Prices by Samuel Benner

PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK FUTURE UPS AND DOWNS IN PRICES – WHAT YEARS TO MAKE MONEY ON PIG IRON, HOGS, CORN, AND PROVISIONS There is a time in the price of certain products and commodities;  Which, if taken by men at the advance leads on to fortune; And if taken at...

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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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A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurence in the US by Clement Juglar

May 20, 2009
A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurence in the US by Clement Juglar

INTRODUCTION NOTE BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK COMPRISING A CONDENSATION OF THE THEORY OF PANICS, BY M. JUGLAR, RENDERED INTO ENGLISH, WITH CERTAIN ADDITIONAL MATERIAL, BY DECOURCY W. THOM. In this translation, made with the author’s consent, my chief object being to convey his entire meaning, I have unhesitatingly rendered the French very...

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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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