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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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War and Lombard Street by Hartley Withers

February 21, 2010

CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE MORATORIUM Suddenness of the crisis — Its severity increased by the strength of London’s position — Credit and civilization — Moratorium defined CHAPTER II THE INTERNAL PROBLEM Effect of war on public mind — Hoarding — Jump in Bank rate — Action of joint stock banks — Their uncomfortable position...

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A Financial Chapter in the History of Bombay City

By Bikibook

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

By Bikibook

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

By Bikibook

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

By Bikibook

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

By Bikibook

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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