Word: butted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yet in spite of, or rather, because of, his high position, a new and current flock of troubles has risen to plague him. In April, when he pulled the call money market through a tight place, he received general kudos (though it was then that Senator Glass first began to...
Thus Mr. Mitchell and his troubles. But Mr. Mitchell likes exercise and combat. He daily goes through setting up exercises, frequently walks from his home (No. 934 Fifth Avenue) to his office (No. 55 Wall Street). He likes surf-swimming, the rougher the better. He plays tennis with slams and...
The Bull Market of 1924-29 was sired by the Golden Industrial Age of the corresponding period. It was easy, after the Market had broken, to denounce speculators as fools and speculation as vicious. Yet a few die-hards (such as Yale's Irving Fisher) maintained, even after the Crash...
October 23. Why then, did a Market which had broken on Oct. 23 demonstrate with a continued crash on Oct. 24 that the end of the Great Bull Market had really arrived? Professor Fisher may stand a discredited prophet, yet apt appeared his analogy between the break on the market...
2) That speculation had been encouraged by the over-conservative financial reports of corporations. There have always been dishonest concerns which rig their books to show $1 per share profit when actually there was no profit. But suppose an ultra-conservative concern, by scaling its assets to minimum and carrying...