Building or Buying a House; A Guide to Wise Investment

March 17, 2010

FOREWORD By The Author If you intend to buy a home; If you intend to build a home for your own occupancy; If you intend to buy a lot to hold until you are ready to build; If, in short, you belong to that great class of Americans who look forward to “owning a...

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Elementary Banking by American Institute Banking

March 17, 2010

PREFACE THE Institute course of study in Elementary Banking, was originally adopted in 1918. Many experienced bank clerks had left their institutions and entered either the military or naval service. Their places were filled by young men and women with little, if any, business training or experience. With the idea of providing a practical...

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Banks and Bankers by Daniel Hardcastle

March 17, 2010

PREFACE by the Author The object of the following pages is to explain, is a plain and familiar manner, what money, Banking, and currency, properly speaking, are ; and how it behoves us to deal with them at present in this country. I conceive that this object may be realized in a manner the...

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Banking Reform by Laurence Laughlin

March 17, 2010

PREFACE By the Author THIS volume is intended to furnish a plain, untechnical exposition of the defects of our present banking and currency system, together with a discussion of the remedies. Not since the Civil War has the country been confronted with a monetary and banking question of greater importance to business prosperity. The...

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Banking Reform; An Essay On Prominent Banking Dangers by AJ Wilson

March 17, 2010

PREFACE By the Author The following pages deal with some of the practical questions at issue in modern English Banking, and with these alone. They are of the highest importance at the present time, and yet signs are not wanting that the lessons which recent events might have been expected to teach are being...

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Banking Progress by Laurence Laughlin

March 17, 2010

PREFACE The story of growth, a progress from a lower to a higher plane, is always of absorbing interest in any field. In the evolution of our thinking on banking we have the complement to the history of our monetary development out of the greenback and silver stages. Although the two phases of progress...

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A Practical Treatise on Banking by William Gilbart

March 17, 2010

PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR ” The best security against management of banking affairs must ever be found in the capacity and integrity of those who are entrusted with the administration of them, and in the caution and prudence of the public ; but no legislative regulation should be omitted which can increase and insure...

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Banks’ Cash Reserves – Threadneedle street; a reply to “Lombard street” (by the late Mr. Walter Bagehot)

March 15, 2010

INTRODUCTION. There are times when a merchant will make almost any sacrifice to obtain ready money. He has entered into no rash speculations, and has only to meet the ordinary legitimate demands of his business, but in order to do so he is suddenly called upon to make a heavy and unexpected loss. To...

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Arbitrage in Bullion, Coins, Bills, Stocks, Shares and Options by Henry Deutsch

March 15, 2010

PREFACE THE literature on the subject of the present book is remarkably meagre. We look practically in vain for any book in any language treating of the highly-important and likewise interesting subject of the transfer of money from one nation to another. The fact is all the more astonishing, as Arbitrage is of the...

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Bad Times – An Essay on the Present Depression of Trade With Suggested Remedies By Alfred Russell Wallace

March 15, 2010

PREFACE. The present work was written last March, in competition for the Pears prize of one hundred guineas for the best essay on the present depression of trade. It did not obtain the prize, and it is therefore now submitted to the judgment of the public — and more especially of the working classes,...

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Banking For Beginners by J. F. Ebersole

March 15, 2010

A successful banker is composed of about one-fifth accountant, two-fifths lawyer, three-fifths political economist, and four-fifths gentleman and scholar — total ten-fifths — double size. Any smaller person may be a pawnbroker or a promoter, but not a banker. — George E. Allen. LINK http://bikibook.com/books/banking-for-beginners/ EMBED

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Calculating the Present Value of Riskless Cash Flows by Richard S. Ruback

March 15, 2010

Abstract This paper uses arbitrage arguments to show that the present value of riskless cash flows is determined by discounting them at the after-tax discount rate. Present value formulas are derived for riskless cash flows in three cases: (i) uniform interest and tax rates; (ii) certain, but not uniform interest and tax rates; and...

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A Financial Chapter in the History of Bombay City

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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

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