Posts Tagged ‘ foreign exchange ’

How well are fluctuating exchange rates working?

May 22, 2010

Focusing on the questions (a) of how well fluctuating exchange rates are working and on the related issue (b) of what sort of guidelines should be established to regulate central bank intervention in exchange markets is particularly appropriate now for a number of reasons. First, despite the float, the dollar continues to slip in...

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Guttag’s Foreign Currency and Exchange Guide

May 22, 2010

PREFACE Since the World War 1914-1918 a greater interest generally has been created in Foreign Monies and Exchange, and from questions which have been put to the publishers in the course of business it appears that a book such as this is needed. It is not our intention to publish a Text-book on this...

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Gold Standard in International Trade

May 22, 2010

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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Foreign Exchange – Theory and Practice

May 22, 2010

PREFACE Foreign exchange is attracting more attention than any other branch of finance. The interest evinced is universal and is no longer confined to bankers, international traders, and financial writers, as was the case prior to the Great War. The general public is showing a decided disposition to acquaint itself with the dislocation of...

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Foreign Exchange, the Financing Mechanism of International Commerce

May 22, 2010

PREFACE The practice of most writers on Foreign Exchange is to treat their subject as a phase of the banking problem, emphasizing the bankers’ methods of handling foreign bills of exchange, and giving but minor stress to the relations of the business man with the exchange markets. It is the opinion of the present...

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Foreign Exchange Before, During, and After the War

May 22, 2010

The Market and its Meaning Ours is a, weary and disillusioned generation, dealing with a world which is nearer collapse than it has been at any time since the downfall of the Roman Empire. The problem which is discussed in this little book is an integral part of the general problem of reconstruction after...

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Elements of Foreign Exchange – a Foreign Exchange Primer

May 22, 2010

WHAT FOREIGN EXCHANGE IS AND WHAT BRINGS IT INTO EXISTENCE UNDERLYING the whole business of foreign exchange is the way in which obligations between creditors in one country and debtors in another have come to be settled — by having the creditor draw a draft directly upon the debtor or upon some bank designated...

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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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Domestic and Foreign Exchange

May 22, 2010

PREFACE There is nothing mysterious or difficult about foreign exchange when it is studied in the light of domestic exchange, which is easily understood, and in this volume I have endeavored to explain the essential principles of both domestic and foreign exchange in simple language, and with suitable illustrations. In this volume practically every...

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A Ready Reckoner of the World’s Foreign and Colonial Exchanges of Seven Monetary and Currency Intermediaries

May 21, 2010

PREFACE I earnestly invite the most serious attention, with unbiased mind, of every one especially rulers, statesmen, legislators, and economists — to this analysis of the world’s prices and foreign and colonial exchanges of intermediaries; and to the simple arithmetical demonstration to travellers, traders, and financiers of their effects upon the interchanges of things...

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Articles On Banking And Currency From The Economist Newspaper By Thomas Joplin

March 15, 2010

INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS. Several members of the Joint-Stock Bank Association having thought that many of the articles of the Economist on Banking and Currency might be usefully re-published, the late Editor has been requested to make a selection of them for that purpose. The Economist was set on foot by Mr. Joplin, with the support...

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