Posts Tagged ‘ Crash ’

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...

Read more »

Cordingley’s Guide to the Stock Exchange

March 17, 2010

CORDINGLEY’S GUIDE TO THE STOCK EXCHANGE – BEING AN EXPLANATION OF EVERY MODE OF SPECULATING IN STOCKS AND SHARES, AND ILLUSTRATING THE MANNER IN WHICH TRANSACTIONS ARE CARRIED OUT Please Activate the Full Screen Mode for Better Viewing Pleasure (2nd button from the left) LINK http://bikibook.com/books/cordingleys-guide-to-stock-exchange/ EMBED

Read more »

Cannibals of Finance – Fifteen Years’ Contest with Money Trust by Arthur Edward Stilwell

March 17, 2010

INTRODUCTION No man ever had his work, while under way, more misjudged than mine has been; experts of all kinds have made maps to show where I was wrong in my calculations and estimates, yet my estimates were correct. All worked out much better than I anticipated, and I wonder what I could have...

Read more »

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,...

Read more »

A Neglected Point In Connection With Crises by Johannsen

March 8, 2010

INTRODUCTORY The black central field and the red ring, together, represent the country’s money supply; consisting partly of coin, or certificates backed by coin; partly of bank notes; and partly of bank money (deposits in commercial banks, “money in bank”). The black central field represents such of the country’s cash funds as are available...

Read more »

A Century of Finance : Martin’s History of the Boston Stock and Money Markets

February 12, 2010
A Century of Finance : Martin’s History of the Boston Stock and Money Markets

PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR The present edition of this work covers 1 00 years of the History of the Boston Stock and Money Markets ; naturally sparse of material in the earlier dates, but the record is complete ; and it will be noted (see page 9, and tables pages 94-183) that there were...

Read more »

Seventeen Talks On the Banking Question

December 13, 2009
Seventeen Talks On the Banking Question

FOREWORD THIS book is written in the form of a conversation between Uncle Sam and six men of various occupations. It begins with the A, B, C of the subject and by question and answer goes over all the different phases of the subject precisely as you would expect them to arise under such...

Read more »

An Outline of the Money Market

December 13, 2009
An Outline of the Money Market

Synopsis 1. The Evolution of the Money Market. 2. The Importance of the Banking Element. 3. The Origin and Development of Banking. 4. Banking and the Bank of England 5. How the Banker Obtains His Funds. 6. How the Banker Uses His Funds. 7. The Bank of England. 8. Management of the Bank of...

Read more »

A Fraudulent Standard by Arthur Kitson

December 13, 2009
A Fraudulent Standard by Arthur Kitson

PREFACE The idea expressed and the conclusions arrived at in this work, are the result of many years of careful thought and study, coupled with practical and varied experience of a very busy in connection with industrial, commercial, and financial affairs, both here and abroad. It is now nearly a quarter of a century,...

Read more »

A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurence in the US by Clement Juglar

May 20, 2009
A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurence in the US by Clement Juglar

INTRODUCTION NOTE BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK COMPRISING A CONDENSATION OF THE THEORY OF PANICS, BY M. JUGLAR, RENDERED INTO ENGLISH, WITH CERTAIN ADDITIONAL MATERIAL, BY DECOURCY W. THOM. In this translation, made with the author’s consent, my chief object being to convey his entire meaning, I have unhesitatingly rendered the French very...

Read more »

Featured Websites

Featured Stock Market Books

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...

Read more »

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...

Read more »

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,...

Read more »

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...

Read more »

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...

Read more »