Word: investments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With more funds than they know what to do with-safely-the Manhattan banks estimate that their capitulation to Mr. Jones will cost them at least $1,500,000. They will borrow from the R. F. C. at 5% (4% if retired within three years) and then promptly invest it in Government bonds yielding anywhere from 3.32% to 1/20 of 1%. Financial Editor Ralph Hendershot of the New York World-Telegram mused: "The change suggests that perhaps some rather high-powered arguments were used to drag the New York banks into line. Perhaps they were told . . . that the Government...
...dared. In so daring he not only submitted his financial wisdom to a major test but he gave evidence of an important decision by the Administration as to its monetary policy. During Depression, John Businessman, more & more eager for liquidity, bought short-term securities whenever he had money to invest. He liked very little to tie up his money in long-term investments. Fearful lest long-term issues would not sell, and tempted by low short-term interest rates, the U. S. Treasury issued more & more short-term securities: Treasury notes, certificates and bills. Result: eight of the 23 billions...
...some effective answer to Dean Johnson's charge that His Majesty's subjects "cannot colonize" the Northern Territory and should therefore let Japanese at least try. Mr. Lyons revealed a secret. His Government, he declared, has about completed negotiations with two groups of British financiers ready to invest between them ?200,000,000 ($972,000,000 at par) in developing roughly half a million square miles of northern Australia...
...large powers granted to a President which are permanently dangerous. It is the small ones with which we invest our petty tyrants that eat away our liberty...
...Wilmington, Del., Melvin Train, garage hand, induced friends in 1921 to invest money in a business enterprise of his brother-in-law, lost their money when his brother-in-law absconded, vowed to remain silent until all losses were made good. Last week he paid off the last creditor, spoke for the first time in eleven years...