By Henry Clews

The definitive examine Wall highway within the nineteenth Century

probably the nineteenth century's most sensible e-book on Wall highway, Fifty Years in Wall highway presents a desirable examine the monetary markets in the course of a interval of swift financial enlargement. Henry Clews was once a tremendous determine in finance at the moment, and his firsthand account brings this colourful period to reasonable by no means ahead of. He unearths stunning tales of political and monetary manipulation and the way he helped carry down the potent Boss Tweed. He writes eloquently in regards to the insanity of the markets and the way the era's maximum speculators gathered their fortunes. This publication presents an expansive view of Wall highway in an period of little legislation, rampant political corruption, and fast monetary swap.

Henry Clews was once born in England in 1836 and emigrated to the us in 1850. In 1859, he cofounded what turned the second one greatest marketer of federal bonds throughout the Civil battle. Later, he equipped the ''Committee of 70,'' which deposed the corrupt Tweed Ring in ny urban, and served as an monetary advisor to President Ulysses supply.

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Undoubtedly, many who enter the arena of speculation are in ever y way unfitted to take the risks against such wily opponents as they must encounter. They are either too ignorant or too wise, too timid or too bold, too pessimistic or too sanguine, too slow or too hasty, too diffident or too conceited, too confiding or too incredulous. These are constitutional defects, any one of which may easily cost an operator a fortune. And yet self-knowledge, with self-control, may prevent these natural disqualifications from seriously interfering with success.

Manifest destiny seemed to have leagued all her forces in opposition to us. The stoutest hearts quailed at the prospect of our dissolution as a nation. At this momentous juncture, when there was no eye to pity, and when no other arm seemed mighty enough to save, the Wall Street men were equal to the occasion. They put their heads together, came to the front, and resolved to extricate the Government from its perilous position. It is true that they were well paid for it. They charged twelve per cent.

The internal dissensions of our people, and the apparent destruction of our national life, were watched with the deepest interest by European friends and foes—the latter being then largely in the majority, and only waiting a favorable opportunity to pounce upon what they considered their destined prey. Manifest destiny seemed to have leagued all her forces in opposition to us. The stoutest hearts quailed at the prospect of our dissolution as a nation. At this momentous juncture, when there was no eye to pity, and when no other arm seemed mighty enough to save, the Wall Street men were equal to the occasion.

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