Fifty Years in Wall Street


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Twenty-Eight Years In Wall Street Revised And Enlarged By A Resume Of The Past Twenty-Two Years, Making A Record Of Fifty Years In Wall Street. Author Henry Clews Was A Giant Figure In Finance During The Late Nineteenth Century, And His Firsthand Account Brings This Colorful Era To Life Like Never Before. This Version Of An Investment Classic Touches On A Wide Range Of Important Financial Issues, Including: The Causes And Consequences Of Wall Street Panics The Influence Of Wall Street On National Politics How Individuals Like Jay Gould, Daniel Drew, And Commodore Vanderbilt Made Their Fortunes The Characteristics Of Winning And Losing Speculators How Operators Attempted To Corner The Markets For Individual Stocks 360 Seiten.










Twenty-eight Years in Wall Street


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Added t.p., illustrated. PARTIAL CONTENTS: XV. [Daniel] Drew and [Cornelius] Vanderbilt.--XVI. Drew and the Erie "corners."--XXII. [Henry] Villard and his speculations.--XXVI. Our railroad methods.--XXXIV. Commodore Vanderbilt.-how his mammoth fortune was accumulated.--XXXV. Wm. H. Vanderbilt.--XXXVII. The young Vanderbilts and their fortunes.--Their railroad system ... --XLII. Railroad investments.--XLV. The labor question.--Gould and the strikes on the Missouri Pacific.--L. Western and southern financial leaders.--General Thomas M. Logan, a successful man in railroading ... --[The Garretts'] great success as railroad managers.--LVII. Jay Gould.--LIX. Men of mark.--Hon. Stephen V. White [Lackawanna Railroad].--Austin Corbin [Reading Railroad].--Russell Sage [Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul].--Chauncey M. Depew [New York Central]. -- J. Pierpont Morgan.