Word: marketer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This favorable sanction under which business enters the year 1925 has been accompanied by an old-fashioned bull swing in the stock market, of great persistence and power. People not only are told that they are likely to make money during the next twelve months-they are already doing it in stocks...
...learning the difficulty of being unable to see the forest for the trees. Hard-bitten by many years of experience in stock speculation, they believe that what goes up must come down, and have therefore been led to sell short many of the leading speculative stocks. But the market keeps on upward, steadily and remorselessly. The paradoxical result has been that many an amateur speculator west of the Alleghanies has, by continuing to buy stocks, serenely drubbed the professionals of the financial arena...
...stupid scene was "The Red Ladies". This was perfectly ordinary revue stuff. Perhaps not many new tunes will be put on the market on account of their popularity here, but one at least was excellent--"When You and I Were Dancing", sung and danced by William Ladd and Madeline Fairbanks. Eddie Conrad made an excellent New York announcer, who therefore spoke no English. The depressed Jimmy Save whose face would light up with almost human intelligence added to the gayety of the evening...
...absence of conclusive industrial news, the statements of the Federal Reserve Banks have been closely scrutinized to see what was going on in the money market. Recent statements show a distinct change in Reserve policy. Holdings by Reserve Banks of Government paper are allowed to run out, while their Treasury Bills are similarly declining. On the other hand, member banks are discounting trade bills and paper; and in this way the official rediscount rate is again becoming "effective." This move may or may not presage higher interest rates generally, but it puts the Reserve in a stronger position to check...
...sharp debate in the British press concerning the possibility of returning to a gold basis in the near future-or specifically, in 1925. There is no doubt that sterling will ultimately be restored to its parity, of $4.8665 and not much doubt but what the fluctuations of the exchange market may see this price reached in 1925. The real question is whether such a price could be maintained, if necessary, by artificial means...