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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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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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 writer...
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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 the...
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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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In 1897 the Editor of the Advocate of India invited me to contribute to its columns a narrative of the rise, growth and collapse of that colossal speculation popularly known in Bombay as the ” share mania,” a mania which in its ultimate consequences was more disastrous than either the South Sea Bubble Scheme,...
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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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The recurrence at the present time of one of those visitations of commercial and financial distress of which I have, during a long life, experienced so many, has once more forced upon the consideration of Parliament and the public the interminable subject of banking and circulation. Whatever may be the variance of opinions on...
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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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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. Such...
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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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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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