Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speculation in securities and agricultural products was causing several Governors deep concern. Alabama's Graves observed that speculative loans "right now" exceeded what had been loaned to planters to produce the next cotton crop. He viewed with alarm the Federal Reserve effort to discourage market gambling by jacking up interest Crates because the effect of this policy is to make borrowing injuriously expensive for "legitimate business." "There is nothing wrong with America except the evils of mad gambling in stocks and cotton," announced Governor Graves. Iowa's Hamill and Nebraska's McMullen (chairman of the conference) agreed...
...Federal Reserve banking system stabilizes the U. S. money market. Might not some form of "reserve" be set up to stabilize the U. S. labor market-a national job reserve...
...clock on the morning of Nov. 7, every stockmarketeer knew that the promised Hoover Market had arrived. Stocks opened 2 to 5 points above the close on Election eve, an advance which financial writers hailed as "sensational." It was a reckless and foolish squandering of a potent adjective. Last week, when the Hoover Market had attained truly "sensational" proportions, writers had no words to describe it. They had recourse to figures...
...Street, is now possessed of a great desire to trust all its savings and all its credit to common stocks. Few professionals and not many amateurs have lost either savings or credit as a result. Not every one of the 1,131 listed stocks has advanced in the Hoover Market, but few have gone off. Certain stocks have appreciated 75% and even 100% in value. For a fair view of the more spectacular aspects of the Hoover Market, investors might consider this table...
...what Geheimrat von Opel was grumbling. From the great Opel works at Russelheim (between Frankfort and Mayence) there pour into Germany more than 250 cheap automobiles daily. Opel builds the cheapest, most standardized of all German cars. And, as a result, Opel has cornered more than half the German market. Other producers (Daimler-Benz, "Nag," Hansa-Lloyd, Adler, Horsch, Magirus, "NSU," Gothaer Waggon, Bayrische Motoren) call Opel the "General Motors of Germany...