The work of the Stock Exchange

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Identifikator:: 1831284952

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-225876

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Meeker, James Edward http://d-nb.info/gnd/126597340

Title:: The work of the Stock Exchange

Edition:: Revised edition

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: The Ronald Press Company

Year of publication:: [1930]

Scope:: XVI, 720 Seiten; Illustrationen, Diagramme

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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608 APPENDIX from their weak or worthless assets. Mr. C. J. Furlonger, a London dealer in bank shares, also testified that 1864-65 had seen a great and unhealthy rise in bank shares; that the subsequent price-collapse in these shares was due to the unjustified extent of this rise rather than to short sales; that the short sales of sound bank shares only resulted in losses to the sellers; that bank failures were due to poor manage- ment of the banks themselves rather than to short sales; that the Leeman Act all through this period had been utterly disregarded; and that had the Act been enforced, it would only have rendered bank shares practically unsalable. Evidence of similar character .in regard to the short sale was furnished by the Economist in 1922 when the London Stock Exchange resumed its term settlement, and thereby practical facilities for short selling, for the first time since the out- break of the war in 1914. French experience closely resembles that of England. Napoleon's able financial minister, Tallien, for a while succeeded in dissuading his imperial master from forbidding short sales on the Bourse, although this was finally done early in the 19th century, but repealed in 1883 when its harmful nature was realized. The limitation upon French short sales already alluded to has, however, been retained in the French statutes. Italian legislation in this respect has imitated the French precedent. Germany provides the classic case of the futility and harm of anti- short sale legislation; this has been extensively alluded to throughout the present study. Most fruitful sources are H. C. Emery’s articles: “Ten Years’ Regulation of the Stock Exchange in Germany” (Yale Review, May, 1908, and reprinted in “Regulation of the Stock Ex- change,” p. 822); and “Should Speculation be Regulated by Law ?— Lessons from German Experience,” ibid., p. 830-838). There is also a large German controversiab literature on this whole subject, from 1893 to 1910. In regard to the experience of New York State, it was stated in “Regulation of the Stock Exchange” (p. 801): “The legislation of the State of New York on the subject of short selling is significant. In 1812 the legislature passed a law declaring all contracts for the sale of stocks and bonds void unless the seller at the time was the actual owner or assignee thereof or authorized by such owner or assignee to sell the same. In 1858 this act was repealed by a statute now in force, which reads as follows: “‘An agreement for the purchase, sile, transfer, or delivery of a certificate or other evidence of debt, issued by the United States, or by any State, municipal or other corporation, or any share or interest in

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