The Stock Exchange – A Short Study of Investment and Speculation by Francis Wrigley Hirst

April 5, 2010

INTRODUCTION IN an old Pennsylvanian almanac of the eighteenth century two qualities were postulated for success in business: first, application or industry, and second, thrift or frugality. The first without the second often leads to nothing. “A man if he knows not how to save as he gets, may keep his nose all his...

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Views on the Currency by Thomas Joplin

April 5, 2010

PREFACE THE principles of the following Work have appeared in former publications, but are more fully developed in this. Those publications have not been generally read, but were not, perhaps, without their effect. They at least have furnished the sub-stratum of more than one popular essay: if any writings on subjects of Political Economy...

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The Art of Wise Investing – a Series of short articles on investment values

April 1, 2010

PREFACE While the popular impression is probably the reverse, yet it is an undeniable fact that a far vaster sum of money is annually lost in this country through unwise investment, than through pure speculation. While many fortunes are constantly jeopardized and dissipated through what is known as speculation in stocks, bonds, grain-futures and...

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The Advantages of the Proposed National Bank of England by Thomas Joplin

March 31, 2010

The invention of Banking; to assist and enlarge the commerce of mankind, has been happily compared with that of arithmetic to extend and expedite their powers of calculation. The utility, therefore, of Banks to a commercial nation like this, need hardly be descanted upon. They are the channels by which remittances of money are...

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Stocks and the Stock Market

March 31, 2010

With the development of large-scale machine production it was only natural that there should be a transition from the system of private partnership to that of Corporate organization, depending for its financial existence and support on the sale of bonds and stocks. Through the corporate form of organization it became possible to combine the...

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Stocks and Shares by Hartley Withers

March 31, 2010

INTRODUCTORY Stocks and shares are a matter of interest to all, and of bewilderment to most, of civilized humanity. The interest may be indirect and unrecognized. The salaried official may flatter himself, perhaps, that because he draws an income direct from Government he is beyond the reach of the influence of stock markets and...

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The Science of Money and American Finances by Luther Vanhorn Moulton

March 31, 2010

PREFACE The author of the present treatise were more than human did he not experience some slight misgivings upon this, his first introduction, to the reading public. The task he has undertaken is one of no little magnitude, and in its accomplishment he has been often reminded by well-meaning friends as well as ill-disposed...

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Readings in Money and Banking, Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Philips

March 31, 2010

PREFACE Designed mainly for class, room use in connection with one of the introductory manuals on the subject of Money and Banking or of Money and Currency, this volume, in itself, lays no claim to completeness. Where its use is contemplated the problems of emphasis and proportion are, accordingly, to be solved by the...

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The Principles of Currency and Banking – Being Five Lectures Delivered in Queen’s College

March 31, 2010

PREFACE In the present edition of these Lectures I have corrected some inaccuracies which occurred in the first. I have in many places, where my meaning seemed to be obscure, endeavoured to make it plain ; and I have, in some instances, altered the arrangement of the subjects. I believe that they are thus...

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Principles of Banks and Banking of Money, as Coin and Paper

March 31, 2010

THE metals have so long performed the use of money, that money and coin are become almost synonymous, although in their principles they be quite different. The first thing therefore to be done in treating of money, is, to separate two ideas, which, by being blended .together, have very greatly contributed to throw a...

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1816-1916, One Hundred Years of Savings Banking

March 28, 2010

Preface THE complexities of modern economic and social life induce study and investigation into causes for chaos as the result of difference between capital and labor, the high cost of living and other such problems. There is no doubt that fundamentally lack of thrift in the average individual ; his lack of co-operation, of...

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Our Defective American Banking System; A Diagnosis and A Prescription

March 28, 2010

THE periodic recurrence in the United States of severe financial crises, from which the other great nations of the world are nearly if not quite exempt, indicates that something is fundamentally wrong with our banking system and credit machinery. It is, indeed, not uncommon to hear that system denounced as the worst now to...

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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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