Investment, an exact science

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Identifikator:: 865521182

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-48767

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Lowenfeld, Henry

Title:: Investment, an exact science

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: The Financial Review of Reviews

Year of publication:: 1906

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 160 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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187 appreciates or depreciates the capital value of securities of many different kinds. In other words, the idea of the Geographical Distribution of Capital is broadly based upon a wide application of the old adage—“ Don’t put all your eggs into one basket.” And “basket” here means “ country.” The enormous loss suffered by investors in the capital securities of the United Kingdom during recent years, and the large depreciation of our National credit, are most serious matters. And the present subject is well worthy of careful examination. I have been asked by the Editor of the Financial Review of Reviews to examine the fluctuations of the trade of the world, with special reference to this matter of the Geographical Distribution of Capital. The main points put to me are these :— Does the trade of the world constantly increase, despite falls or rises in the trade of various parts of the world ? And, is falling trade in one part of the world more or less counterbalanced by rising trade in another part of the world ? These are interesting questions, and the investigation of the facts necessary to reply to them ought to bring out some widely-based results of much value, apart from the results

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