Posts Tagged ‘ Corporate Finance ’

Ireland considered as a field for investment or residence

May 22, 2010

PREFACE The Author of this Work, having in his professional capacity visited every county in Ireland, except two, and having thus had opportunities, spreading over some years, of informing himself both as to the capabilities of the soil and the character of the people, was, after a time, forcibly impressed with the misapprehension existing...

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Eastern Exchange, Currency and Finance

May 22, 2010

PREFACE A COMPARATIVELY short space of time has elapsed since the second edition (fourth impression) of this work was published, but during that period the variations in the silver exchanges have been kaleidoscopic. The end of the devastating war of 1914-1918 finds the currency of the world literally in the melting pot. Gold in...

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The Financier and the Finances of the American Revolution Vol 2

April 19, 2010

WHEN Morris took office, he had eager hopes of loans from Spain. In July, 1781, he wrote a long letter to Jay to stimulate him to apply for such loan, and to provide him with arguments by which he might persuade the Spanish Minister. He proposed that the United States should help Spain to...

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The Financier and the Finances of the American Revolution Vol 1

April 19, 2010

PREFACE THIS book contains a biography of ROBERT MORRIS and a financial history of the period of the American Revolution. Neither of these subjects has heretofore been made the object of thorough investigation. Early in this century, two biographies of Morris were written, one by Mease, the other by Wain; and numerous short sketches...

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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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