Posts Tagged ‘ investments ’

Stocks and the Stock Market

March 31, 2010

With the development of large-scale machine production it was only natural that there should be a transition from the system of private partnership to that of Corporate organization, depending for its financial existence and support on the sale of bonds and stocks. Through the corporate form of organization it became possible to combine the...

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Stocks and Shares by Hartley Withers

March 31, 2010

INTRODUCTORY Stocks and shares are a matter of interest to all, and of bewilderment to most, of civilized humanity. The interest may be indirect and unrecognized. The salaried official may flatter himself, perhaps, that because he draws an income direct from Government he is beyond the reach of the influence of stock markets and...

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The Masters of Capital – A Chronicle of Wall Street by John Moody

March 24, 2010

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...

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Frenzied Finance by Thomas Lawson

March 22, 2010

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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Investment and Speculation – A Description of the Modern Money Market and Analysis of the Factors Determining the Value of Securities by Thomas Conway

March 22, 2010

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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Investment and Speculation by Louis Guenther

March 22, 2010

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...

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Holding Costs And Equilibrium Arbitrage by Bruce Tuckman and Jean-Luc Vila

March 22, 2010

Abstract In a world were trading is costless, assets with identical cash flows must have identical prices. If arbitrageurs face unit time costs, or holding costs, the prices of these assets need not be equal, i.e the assets can be relatively mispriced. This paper constructs a dynamic model of the equilibrium determination of prices...

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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...

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Duncan on Investment and Speculation in Stocks and Shares

March 17, 2010

INTRODUCTION IN presenting this work to the public our object has been to explain the technicalities of the Stock Exchange, and to clear up such difficulties as have hitherto lain in the paths of inexperienced investors. We show the principles upon which a capitalist, large or small, can obtain the highest return for his...

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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

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An Economic Interpretation of Investment by J.A Hobson

March 9, 2010

PREFACE. The object of these chapters, some of which were published in the “Financial Review of Reviews” during the autumn of 1910, is to present a study of the art of investment upon its industrial, rather than its financial, side, that is to say, to consider it in relation to the productive energy it...

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American and Foreign Investment Bonds by William L. Raymond

March 3, 2010

PREFACE This book has been put together from talks given to the writer’s salesmen. The aim has been to discuss clearly and simply the leading classes of investment bonds. In trying to carry out this aim, the writer has confined himself mostly to a discussion of the factors entering into the intrinsic value of...

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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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