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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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The Causes of the Panic of 1893 by William Jett

April 19, 2010

INTRODUCTION In approaching the problem of the causes of the crisis of 1893, it is necessary to adopt a somewhat unusual mode of procedure, owing to the fact that in November, 1890, three years previous to the crisis of 1893, a severe financial panic was felt in Great Britain, Germany, and the United States....

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Twenty-One Years in the Boston Stock Market by Joseph Gregory Martin

April 5, 2010

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...

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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

April 5, 2010

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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The Stock Exchange Business, A Course of Study with References

April 5, 2010

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The Stock Exchange – A Short Study of Investment and Speculation by Francis Wrigley Hirst

April 5, 2010

INTRODUCTION IN an old Pennsylvanian almanac of the eighteenth century two qualities were postulated for success in business: first, application or industry, and second, thrift or frugality. The first without the second often leads to nothing. “A man if he knows not how to save as he gets, may keep his nose all his...

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The Art of Wise Investing – a Series of short articles on investment values

April 1, 2010

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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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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Bad Times – An Essay on the Present Depression of Trade With Suggested Remedies By Alfred Russell Wallace

March 15, 2010

PREFACE. The present work was written last March, in competition for the Pears prize of one hundred guineas for the best essay on the present depression of trade. It did not obtain the prize, and it is therefore now submitted to the judgment of the public — and more especially of the working classes,...

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A Financial Chapter in the History of Bombay City

By Bikibook

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

By Bikibook

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

By Bikibook

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

By Bikibook

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

By Bikibook

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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