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The aim of this book is to give a comprehensive exposition of the theory and practice of commercial banking in the United States. In its preparation the author has been guided by the following principles: 1. To move from general to particulars, that is, from general theory in the first volume and a comprehensive...
Introduction The characteristics of the efficient (in the mean-variance sense) portfolio frontier have been discussed at length in the literature. However, for more than three assets, the general approach has been to display qualitative results in terms of graphs. In this paper, the efficient portfolio frontiers are derived explicitly, and the characteristics claimed for...
Chances for Success in the Stock Market Stock market speculation, notwithstanding all the calumnies and maledictions heaped upon it since its inception, is steadily increasing throughout the length and breadth of the land. There is no gainsaying the fact that speculation has been the cause of many a lost fortune, but one should not...
PREFACE This book, as its name indicates, is concerned with the every-day financial problems of the private business concern. The point of view taken throughout is that of an organizer or financial manager of an enterprise. While the book deals primarily with business conditions and financial practice in the United States, it includes many...
There is little doubt that the years 1874-5 will witness some new form of mania for the British Investing Public ; and it is in the belief that more attention will be directed to the securities of America, that this small work has been compiled. English railways have been carried to such a high...
PREFACE. The object of these chapters, some of which were published in the “Financial Review of Reviews” during the autumn of 1910, is to present a study of the art of investment upon its industrial, rather than its financial, side, that is to say, to consider it in relation to the productive energy it...
People frequently act in haste, and repent at leisure. In this case, there was no cause for repentance. But it naturally led to reflection, and it appeared to me, that instead of coming forward in times of such danger, and blindly entering into an obligation, so unlimited, in favour of Banks, which, for any...
INTRODUCTION The extraordinary movements of the stock market during the year 1884 invite a careful inquiry. Prices dropped lower than at any other time since the resumption of specie payments, losing in a few weeks well-nigh half of the marvelous gain which had been realized during two years and a half. Failures of extraordinary...
Importance of the Subject. In an address to the stockholders of the United States Bank, at their meeting in 1S28, Mr. N. Biddle, the President of that institution, stated, that, of five hundred and forty-four Banks in the United States, one hundred and forty-four had been openly declared bankrupt, and about fifty more had...