Fundamental analysis · Intermediate
Fifty Years in Wall Street
Henry Clews
A banker's first-hand record of panics, corners and manias from the 1850s onward. Long, but the chapters on panic behaviour are worth it.
Out of copyright — read the whole book here, free.
The complete text is stored on this site. No account, no other website. About 351,166 words, roughly 27 hours of reading.
- First published
- 1908
- Length
- 1062 pages
- ISBN
- 9780471785194
The highlights
What this book actually gives you, in short.
- 1
A participant's record of repeated panics, written by a banker who lived through them.
- 2
Shows how credit conditions, not company news, drive the worst declines.
- 3
Long and discursive — read the panic chapters and skip the political digressions.
At a glance
Drawn from the catalogue record — every line here is a checkable fact about the book, not an opinion about it.
- Covers Business, Capitalists and financiers, Finance, Securities industry, Speculation.
- First published in 1908.
- About 1062 pages, roughly 24 hours of reading.
- The complete text is hosted on this site — read it here, free.
In the author’s own words
Taken word for word from the text on this site. Each one links to the page it appears on.
“There are few subjects on which there is more loose theorizing than that of the origin and remedy of panics.”
“In the United States, panics arise, principally, from causes from which European countries are exempt. Notwithstanding our immense population and the large measure of well-ordered consolidation that has been effected in our various interests, we are still a nation of pioneers.”
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