LETTER OF SUBMITTAL to The President : I have the honor to submit herewith the final report of the Commission on International Exchange, constituted under the authority of the act of March 3, 1903, and continued last year by means of a special appropriation. The chief purpose of the Commission was to bring about,...
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THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF BANKING. An eminent historian observes, that ” it is a cruel mortification, in searching for what is instructive in the history of past times, to find that the exploits of conquerors who have desolated the earth, and the freaks of tyrants who have rendered nations unhappy, are recorded with...
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The recurrence at the present time of one of those visitations of commercial and financial distress of which I have, during a long life, experienced so many, has once more forced upon the consideration of Parliament and the public the interminable subject of banking and circulation. Whatever may be the variance of opinions on...
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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 it...
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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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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...
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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF AMERICAN COMMERCE CONSISTING OF ONE HUNDRED ORIGINAL ARTICLES ON COMMERCIAL TOPICS DESCRIBING THE PRACTICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF TRADE IN THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE PAST CENTURY AND SHOWING THE PRESENT MAGNITUDE OF OUR FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL INSTITUTIONS WITH A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS OF AMERICAN...
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CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Definition of Stock Options 11 CHAPTER II. The Practice of Option Trading 14 CHAPTER III. American Contract Forms 18 CHAPTER IV. American Options or Privileges 22 CHAPTER V. Value of Options 30 CHAPTER VI. Castelli and Higgins on Options 44 CHAPTER VII. Arbitrage 51 CHAPTER VIII. Arbitraging in Rights 60 CHAPTER IX. Usages of the London Stock Exchange 64...
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COTTON FUTURES The business of buying and selling Cotton for Future Delivery as conducted on the NewYork, New Orleans and Liverpool Cotton Exchanges and its advantages to Merchants, Manufacturers, Bankers, and Farmers. BY ALFRED B. SHEPPERSON Please Activate the Full Screen Mode for Better Viewing Pleasure (2nd button from the left). LINK http://bikibook.com/books/cotton-futures/ EMBED
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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 the decline,...
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PREVIEW It is an essential part of the case of the silver men that the country is having “hard times.” The bolters from the Republican convention say, in their manifesto: “Discontent and distress prevail to an extent never before known in the history of the country.” This is an historical assertion. It is distinctly untrue....
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