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Sto caricando le informazioni... Fifty Years in Wall Street (Wiley Investment Classics)di Henry Clews
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Received from Helen History of Financial Advice Collection. Born in Britain, Clews emigrated to the US in 1853, and by 1859 he had established a firm that specialized in marketing government bonds during the Civil War. He had a long and distinguished career as a financier, although at times he fell foul of the New York Stock Exchange’s rule against self-promotion through advertising. One source of popular knowledge about Wall Street was autobiographical writing by stock brokers, such as William Worthington Fowler’s Ten Years on Wall Street (1870), Matthew Hale Smith’s Twenty Years among the Bulls and Bears of Wall Street (1871), and Henry Clews’s Twenty-Eight Years on Wall Street (1887), later expanded to become Fifty Years on Wall Street (1908). These memoirs provided a far less judgmental portrait of Wall Street than earlier accounts. Although they condemned some sharp practices of the “king operators,” they indulged their readers’ appetites for dramatic tales of the legendary corners and pools organized by the “celebrities of Wall Street.” Despite seeming to provide ammunition for those reformers who felt that the protection of vulnerable investors is best achieved by educating the public in the specifics of stock market activity, these compendia of Wall Street lore nonetheless tended—in part by sheer repetition—to legitimize the stock market by lionizing its larger-than-life “characters.” nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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The definitive look at Wall Street in the 19th Century Perhaps the 19th century's best book on Wall Street, Fifty Years in Wall Street provides a fascinating look at the financial markets during a period of rapid economic expansion. Henry Clews was a giant figure in finance at that time, and his firsthand account brings this colorful era to life like never before. He reveals shocking stories of political and economic manipulation and how he helped bring down the mighty Boss Tweed. He writes eloquently about the madness of the markets and how the era's greatest speculators amassed their fortunes. This book provides an expansive view of Wall Street in an era of little regulation, rampant political corruption, and rapid financial change. Henry Clews was born in England in 1836 and emigrated to the United States in 1850. In 1859, he cofounded what became the second largest marketer of federal bonds during the Civil War. Later, he organized the "Committee of 70," which deposed the corrupt Tweed Ring in New York City, and served as an economic consultant to President Ulysses Grant. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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