The subject of this work has presented difficulties of a complicated character, from the various phases under which the peculiar defects of individual societies appear. The task has, however, been lightened by the rejection, that, although it cannot be expected that this effort, to place them upon a more rational and secure footing, will...
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PREFACE The object of this work is to present in a concise and simple form the theory and practice of Foreign Exchange. At first sight some apology may appear to be due for adding to the already long list of books on this branch of monetary science, but reference to the table of contents...
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Abstract There is a considerable literature analyzing the behavior of exchange rates. However, the modeling and forecasting of exchange rates has not been very successful. One of the obstacles to effective modeling of financial time series is heteroscedasticity. The recent availability of high frequency data, such as tick-by-tick data, provides us with extra information about...
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The enormous and increasing values and profits represented by American business corporations have attracted general attention to corporate activities. The problem of corporation regulation is perhaps the leading issue of the day. Each of the leading political parties is committed to programs of corporation control, particularly in the field of public-service corporations. Many laws...
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FOREWORD The New York Stock Exchange can The be said to have been begun 125 years. Beginning ago 100 years of which it has of the passed under a formulated Constitution. Its beginning was three years after the adoption of the Constitution of the United States and the first meeting of Congress, three years...
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What Our Problem Is There are available for purchase or sale securities of the widest possible variety, issued by countless corporations, municipalities, states, nations, etc. Merely to learn the names of all of them represents a quite impossible task. Equally varied with respect to their individual requirements are the purchasers and sellers of these...
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PREFATORY REMARKS In the present work the compiler has aimed to furnish a full and reliable history of the several stocks in the Boston market offered to Investors, — a large class, comprising not only capitalists so termed, but a host of persons of smaller means, who seek out some one of the various securities...
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CYCLES AND STOCK MARKET RECORDS AN English economist whose unaffected humanity always made him remarkably readable, the late William Stanley Jevons, propounded the theory of a connection between commercial panics and spots on the sun. He gave a series of dates from the beginning of the seventeenth century, showing an apparent coincidence between the...
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PREFACE While the popular impression is probably the reverse, yet it is an undeniable fact that a far vaster sum of money is annually lost in this country through unwise investment, than through pure speculation. While many fortunes are constantly jeopardized and dissipated through what is known as speculation in stocks, bonds, grain-futures and...
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In this “book, “Masters of Capital”, we have a most remarkable “Time and Motion Study” of Capitalism in action. In fact, it is, in effect, a copy of their formula, given us by one of the lf keepers of the seals and records “, with accompanying exhibits of its effects, before and after. If proof...
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FOREWORD THERE will be set down in this book, in as simple and direct a fashion as I can write it, the story of Amalgamated Copper and of the ” System ” of which it is the most flagrant example. This “System ” is a process or a device for the incubation of wealth...
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LESSONS OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS – THE ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE THE PANIC AS A WORLD PHENOMENON By Frank A. Vanderlip, Vice-President National City Bank, New York. It might very properly be urged that the present is too early a date for us to draw wise conclusions from the lessons...
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EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION It is no part of the purpose of this volume to teach the reader how to speculate. It is hoped, on the contrary, that the book will discourage speculation by the emphasis which it places on the importance of patience, intelligence and foresight in the art of investing. In the minds of...
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INTRODUCTION Every head of a corporation, every business man, in fact everyone employed in a responsible position and upon whose judgment the success of an enterprise largely depends, should provide himself with a general knowledge of the problem of investments and speculation. Investment and speculation are so closely associated with the well-being of trade that...
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