Frenzied Finance by Thomas Lawson

March 22, 2010

FOREWORD THERE will be set down in this book, in as simple and direct a fashion as I can write it, the story of Amalgamated Copper and of the ” System ” of which it is the most flagrant example. This “System ” is a process or a device for the incubation of wealth...

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Lessons of the Financial Crisis

March 22, 2010

LESSONS OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS – THE ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE THE PANIC AS A WORLD PHENOMENON By Frank A. Vanderlip, Vice-President National City Bank, New York. It might very properly be urged that the present is too early a date for us to draw wise conclusions from...

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Investment and Speculation – A Description of the Modern Money Market and Analysis of the Factors Determining the Value of Securities by Thomas Conway

March 22, 2010

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION It is no part of the purpose of this volume to teach the reader how to speculate. It is hoped, on the contrary, that the book will discourage speculation by the emphasis which it places on the importance of patience, intelligence and foresight in the art of investing. In the minds of...

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Lectures On The History And Principles Of Ancient Commerce by William Gilbart

March 22, 2010

PREFACE by the Author These Lectures were delivered at Waterford, in the beginning of the year 1833. At that time I held the office of Manager of the Waterford branch of the Provincial Bank of Ireland. When residing in London I had assisted at the formation of the City of London Literary and Scientific...

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Investment and Speculation by Louis Guenther

March 22, 2010

INTRODUCTION Every head of a corporation, every business man, in fact everyone employed in a responsible position and upon whose judgment the success of an enterprise largely depends, should provide himself with a general knowledge of the problem of investments and speculation. Investment and speculation are so closely associated with the well-being of trade...

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How to Finance a Business – Where and How to Get Funds

March 22, 2010

WHERE TO GO FOR MONEY

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Loans and Investments by Sprague and Kemmerer

March 22, 2010

BANKS are commonly thought of as being chiefly engaged in the business of lending money, but as a matter of fact money loans make up a small part of their business. The investments of savings banks are indeed limited to the funds which they have received from depositors, together with such amounts as have...

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How to Speculate in Mines by Walter W Wall

March 22, 2010

How to speculate in mines : being an exposition of the principles of investment and speculation, with descriptions of mine-developments and principal gold fields and a glossary of mining terms INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR IN undertaking the task to instruct the ordinary capitalist how to speculate in mining shares, I am well aware that...

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History of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of Banking in All Parts of the World

March 22, 2010

BANK, Bankers, Banking. The term bank has two distinct significations; one in reference to commerce, implying a place of deposit or store-house ; the other relating to geography and rural economy, implying an elevation of the earth, either natural or artificial; and either below or above the surface of the water, in rivers as...

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Holding Costs And Equilibrium Arbitrage by Bruce Tuckman and Jean-Luc Vila

March 22, 2010

Abstract In a world were trading is costless, assets with identical cash flows must have identical prices. If arbitrageurs face unit time costs, or holding costs, the prices of these assets need not be equal, i.e the assets can be relatively mispriced. This paper constructs a dynamic model of the equilibrium determination of prices...

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Thoughts On Finance And Colonies by Pseud Publius

March 18, 2010

IN examining a piece of complex and delicate mechanism, suppose it to be the highest triumph of modern genius, the chronometer with the Arnold escapement, the first thing that impresses the eye is the exquisite finish and beauty of the workmanship, and the wonderful regularity and smoothness of the movement ; while the conviction...

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Lombard Street, A Description of the Money Market by Walter Bagehot

March 18, 2010

Like the English Constitution, the English credit system is a living thing, that has grown out of its past and is growing into its future. Past, present, and future are thus one continuing process, and no one can hope to understand its present, still less to peer into its future, unless he knows something...

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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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