The Wall Street Point of ViewSilver, Burdett, 1900 - 290 pages |
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... share in the great advantages which these industrials are capable of conferring on the public at large . CHAPTER VI . CONCERNING TRUSTS AND CORPORATIONS Trusts are transformed into corporations and doing business legally . How ...
... share in the great advantages which these industrials are capable of conferring on the public at large . CHAPTER VI . CONCERNING TRUSTS AND CORPORATIONS Trusts are transformed into corporations and doing business legally . How ...
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... share mar- ket . One invariable rule there is , but it requires large capital and patience to practise it . It is ... share ; but if he holds the purchase , and it ultimately advances to par , he has gained $ 40 per share . And suppose ...
... share mar- ket . One invariable rule there is , but it requires large capital and patience to practise it . It is ... share ; but if he holds the purchase , and it ultimately advances to par , he has gained $ 40 per share . And suppose ...
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... shares sell at 110 , he then loses $ 10 per share . So that this " safe " road to success has its stumbling blocks as well as others , although they are not so dangerous . In such a road there are no deadly pitfalls . The men who travel ...
... shares sell at 110 , he then loses $ 10 per share . So that this " safe " road to success has its stumbling blocks as well as others , although they are not so dangerous . In such a road there are no deadly pitfalls . The men who travel ...
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... share market carefully has eventually found that if he is able to pay one half the market price of his holdings , he ... shares that sell in December at 72 and in March at 30. Whoever buys such goods should pay for them and put them away ...
... share market carefully has eventually found that if he is able to pay one half the market price of his holdings , he ... shares that sell in December at 72 and in March at 30. Whoever buys such goods should pay for them and put them away ...
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... shares , two other roads one partly , the other wholly in the same State which attempted absorptions equal in magnitude , but wanting in the elements of prudence and rationality , experienced such depressions of share values as seri ...
... shares , two other roads one partly , the other wholly in the same State which attempted absorptions equal in magnitude , but wanting in the elements of prudence and rationality , experienced such depressions of share values as seri ...
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Page 210 - In contemplating the causes which may disturb our union, it occurs as matter of serious concern, that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations — northern and southern — Atlantic and western ; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.
Page 85 - The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
Page 152 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...
Page 85 - This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed ; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
Page 259 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 110 - States to continue the use of both gold and silver as standard money, and to coin both gold and silver into money of equal intrinsic and unchangeable value, such equality to be secured through international agreement, or by such safeguards of legislation as will insure the maintenance of the parity in value of the coins of the two metals, and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in the payment of debts.
Page 278 - The maintenance of general peace and a possible reduction of the excessive armaments which weigh upon all nations present themselves in the existing condition of the whole world, as the ideal towards which the endeavors of all Governments should be directed.
Page 110 - Treasury notes thereon, and for other purposes," as directs the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase from time to time silver bullion to the aggregate amount of 4,500,000 ounces, or so much thereof as may be offered in each month at the market price thereof, not exceeding one dollar for...
Page 56 - I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe, for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that the man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows.
Page 96 - Nor can the worker in manufactures fail to understand that while a high tariff is claimed to be necessary to allow the payment of remunerative wages, it certainly results in a very large increase in the price of nearly all sorts of manufactures, which, in almost countless forms, he needs for the use of himself and his family.