Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grocery bills. Operations between producer and consumer by the much-maligned Middle-Man would, experts explained, serve as a buffer between farm prices and store prices. Illustration: The corn duty raise of 10¢ per bushel would affect corn products (flakes, syrup, oil, etc.) by only a fraction of ordinary market fluctuations in corn, which sometimes are as much as 50¢ per bushel in a season without altering retail prices...
...branches throughout the Middle West. And when, last week, "Ohio Sam" an nounced the formation of Ungerleider Financial Corp., a general investment trust, the potent names of William Fox, head of Fox Films, David Bernstein, treasurer of Loew's, Inc. (Fox subsidiary), William Crapo Durant, motor-and market-man, and Louis S. Posner, of Jonas & Neuburger, attorneys,* were among those associated in the enterprise...
...very young man, he went to work for a saloon keeper and in two years owned the saloon. Selling out his distillery business with the approach of prohibition (1919), Mr. Ungerleider tried to retire, found the burden of leisure too heavy to endure. He began to play the market and quickly discovered the expenses of that pastime. He soon decided that only the insider had a chance to make money on the Street so, in 1919, he bought his seat on the Exchange, continued in his new, as in his old, business, to be on the sober side...
Call Money Market. Mr. Simmons's next main contention put upon the Federal Reserve Board the responsibility for the low bond market and the high money rates which usually have been blamed upon the Stock Market. For, said he, the Reserve Board, through its "fear propaganda, warnings, and vague threats," has so filled the capitalists with anxiety, with terror, concerning investments in either stocks or bonds, that this capitalist has put his money not into stocks, not into bonds, but into the call money market- "the safest form of investment known in this country." Furthermore, the more the Reserve...
Commodity Inflation. Always attacking, never merely defending, Mr. Simmons next proceeded to argue that to divert "the enormous masses of capital today invested in stock market loans'' into "commercial business" would "produce a huge rise in commodity prices, inflation of inventories, and an artificial business boom . . . which could only end in a colossal smash." In other words, if business in general had the money now in brokers' loans, it would swell up and burst. There is more capital extant "than the country knows what to do with." The safe place for this capital is in the Stock...