Word: investors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light of these inconsistencies, can it be denied that 'confidence' and Mr. Roosevelt go ill together? The power to create a state of uncertainty in which no businessman or investor will incur risk is vested in the President of the United States. Mr. Roosevelt is the first President who thought fit to use that power. Every ounce of it was applied. Neither graphs, nor economic jargon, nor statistics are required to show how Mr. Roosevelt made the depression which should always bear his name. He created it by methods which were as direct as they were effective...
...attributed to the condition of the market to which I called attention, or indeed to any single cause. I would be less than candid, however, if I failed to say that recent market developments have confirmed my belief that in the interests of the public and the investor the question of what are wise restrictions upon the scope of the market is an urgent...
...constantly needs. Rates are therefore based upon the value of the utility property involved. All methods of valuation are more or less arbitrary but they tend to run toward two extremes: 1) what it would cost to reproduce the property and 2) what the property originally cost a "prudent investor...
...with the threat of law suits always present, the average insider would rather speculate in any stock than the one he knows best. Purpose of restriction on inside trading, like that of all the New Deal's securities regulations, was to make the market safe for the true investor. Violent and unjustified fluctuations were to be ended. Wall Street last week was asking whether the result, ironically enough, was to make the fluctuations more violent and unjustified than ever...
...estimated. . . . I do not think basic soundness of our markets has been impaired by restrictions for the protection of customers and lessening of the speculative tinge. It may be-who can tell?-that there will be sharper short-term deviations-fluctuations that concern the speculator rather than the investor-but I think the danger of runaway markets and also of dangerously inflated markets has been greatly decreased. Present markets tend to make investors think very much less in terms of capital appreciation than in terms of earnings, soundness of organization and good management...