Posts Tagged ‘ loans ’

Industrial Investment and Emigration

May 22, 2010

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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History of the Thrift Movement in America

May 22, 2010

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION UNTIL quite recently the term ” Thrift ” conveyed meagre conceptions to the aver age mind. There have been, it is true, individuals now and then who, because of so-called peculiar characteristics, or possessing dispositional make-up, unusual or rare, have practiced thrift. These, for the most part, however, have been looked upon...

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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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Does It Pay to Borrow?

March 17, 2010

This pamphlet is one of a series made available by the War Department under the series title GI Roundtable. As the general title indicates, GI Roundtable pamphlets provide material which information-education officers may use in conducting group discussions or forums as part of an off-duty education program. The content of this pamphlet has been...

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Corporation Finance by Arthur Dewing

March 17, 2010

PREFACE Teachers of economics and corporation finance have expressed a wish to have a book covering the leading features of corporation finance available for classroom instruction — a book that can be read easily by students during a single semester. A clear purpose and method must be in mind in the preparation and use...

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Continuous Time Production Under Incomplete Information

March 17, 2010

ABSTRACT Models of asset pricing generally assume that the variables which characterize the state of the economy are observable. For example, the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) of Sharpe, Lintner and Mossin, Merton’s Intertemporal Asset Pricing Model and Ross’s Arbitrage Pricing Theory establish relations between distributional parameters of the rates of return on assets...

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Courses of Study in Corporation Finance and Investment by Lyon Hastings

May 31, 2009
Courses of Study in Corporation Finance and Investment by Lyon Hastings

Prefatory by Lyon Hastings About two years ago at the written request of several members of the Investment Bankers Association, the Board of Governors appointed a Special Committee consisting of Lawrence Chamberlain, Chairman, EW Bulkley and A.W Bullard, to consider the expediency of compiling and printing a text or texts of subject matter relating...

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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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