Wall Street and the Country: A Study of Recent Financial TendenciesG. P. Putnam's sons, 1904 - 247 páginas |
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... now living . It is pro- posed here simply to submit on certain phases of these subjects a few considera- tions which have thus far been more or less obscured . The discussion in regard to putting China upon the gold vi Preface.
... now living . It is pro- posed here simply to submit on certain phases of these subjects a few considera- tions which have thus far been more or less obscured . The discussion in regard to putting China upon the gold vi Preface.
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... less attractive upon the other side by reducing the return upon it . For the owner of an investment security , and especially for him who has it to sell , a scarcity of safe securi- ties and a rise in their price are acceptable and ...
... less attractive upon the other side by reducing the return upon it . For the owner of an investment security , and especially for him who has it to sell , a scarcity of safe securi- ties and a rise in their price are acceptable and ...
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... less in proportion to the transactions of the country than that of the New York banks and the Treasury of the United States . In the early days of England's financial primacy , the re- serve proved insufficient , and English finance was ...
... less in proportion to the transactions of the country than that of the New York banks and the Treasury of the United States . In the early days of England's financial primacy , the re- serve proved insufficient , and English finance was ...
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... less a social gain because much of it is absorbed by the promoter and the financier . " The new methods and the new projects are going through the test of fire to - day , and some of them are being consumed . The tests which weeded out ...
... less a social gain because much of it is absorbed by the promoter and the financier . " The new methods and the new projects are going through the test of fire to - day , and some of them are being consumed . The tests which weeded out ...
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... less speculators , or the necessity of further tinkering the general companies ' acts more than sixteen times in a generation , inde- pendently of other acts relating to special classes of corporations . 66 Would the man in America who ...
... less speculators , or the necessity of further tinkering the general companies ' acts more than sixteen times in a generation , inde- pendently of other acts relating to special classes of corporations . 66 Would the man in America who ...
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afforded American Commissions amount Bank of England Bank of France bankers bonds Britain bullion bushel carried cash cent China coins commercial consumer convertible bonds corporations cost creased currency demand deposits dividends earning economic effect efficiency enterprises Europe export fall foreign France fund G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS gold countries gold standard Government growth hand important increased industrial investor issue kilometres labor legislation loans London long tons manufacturing ment miles modern monetary system mortgage national banks necessary nineteenth century ocean cable operation organization panies Philippines population preferred stock present price of silver produce exchanges productive power profits progress protection railway rate of interest recent reserve result rose rubles saved capital securities shares silver countries speculation stock companies stock exchange stock market supply tended tion trade transactions transfer trust companies United voting trust wages wealth wheat York
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Página 218 - To exercise by its board of directors or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of banking; by discounting and negotiating promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other evidences of debt; by receiving deposits; by buying and selling exchange, coin, and bullion; by loaning money on personal security; and by obtaining, issuing, and circulating notes according to the provisions of this title.
Página 216 - ... 1. To act as the fiscal or transfer agent of any state, municipality, body politic or corporation; and in such capacity to receive and disburse money, to transfer, register and countersign certificates of stock, bonds or other evidences of indebtedness, and to act as agent of any corporation, foreign or domestic, for any lawful purpose.
Página 216 - To act as trustee under any mortgage or bond issued by any municipality, body politic or corporation, and accept and execute any other municipal or corporate trust not inconsistent with the laws of this state.
Página 216 - To take, accept and execute any and all such legal trusts, duties and powers in regard to the holding, management and disposition of any estate, real or personal, and the rents and profits thereof, or the sale thereof, as may be granted or confided to it by any court of record, or by any person, corporation...
Página 127 - ... men ; that is to say, if men were employed to furnish the power to carry on the industries of this country, it would require 21,000,000 men, and 21,000,000 men represent a population, according to the ratio of the census of 1880, of 105,000,000.
Página 92 - It would be practically unattainable by any other system. Thus through the publicity of knowledge and prices, the bringing of a multitude of fallible judgments upon this common ground to an average, there is afforded to capital throughout the world an almost unfailing index of the course in which new production should be directed. Suppose for a moment that the stock markets of the world were closed, that it was no longer possible to learn what railways were paying dividends, what their stocks were...
Página 216 - To receive deposits of trust moneys, securities and other personal property from any person or corporation, and to loan money on real or personal securities.