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... ) was dismantled subsequent to the opening economic reforms launched by Deng Xiaoping. Since the opening of the stock exchanges in Shenzhen (1990) and Shanghai (1992), a wave of “stock fever” ( gupiaore ) has swept the population. The article shows how the Chinese stock market offers a chance for further...

...Bernard Duffey The Stock of Available Reality: R. P. Blackmur and John Berryman . By Bloom James D. . Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press , 1984 . Pp. 7 , 216 . $24.50 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 204 The South Atlantic Quarterly Degree Zero, Roland...

...Benjamin Ulysses Ratchford Copyright © 1930 by Duke University Press 1930 The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. XXIX JANUARY, 1930 Number 1 CREDIT CONTROL AND THE STOCK MARKET BENJAMIN ULYSSES RATCHFORD Duke University AFTER such a crash in stock prices as occurred during last October...

...John Espey The Life of Ezra Pound . By Stock Noel . New York : Pantheon Books , 1970 . Pp. xviii , 472 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 424 The South Atlantic Quarterly promoted by Webster s and Tourneur s heroes are. And Hemdl s analysis...

...W. T. Laprade An Historian’s World: Selections from the Correspondence of John Franklin Jameson . Edited by Donnan Elizabeth Stock Leo F. . Philadelphia : The American Philosophical Society , 1956 . Pp. xi , 382 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957...

... to discuss the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. With the first mention of the name of this newest reg­ ulatory law it should be pointed out that it is not those only who own seats on the various exchanges, particularly the New York Stock Exchange, who are to be regulated. These con­ stitute only a small...

... refined in this country, profits are distributed as dividends among the owners of the corporation s stock. In a business organized on co-operative principles stockholders receive none of the profits from transactions, getting only interest on their investment at a restricted rate, usually 5 per cent to 6...

... acclaim and their se­ curities prime favorites in the stock market, they have come upon evil days, and the prices of their securities were scraping bottom for many months. While the small investor has been vaguely wondering what has happened to his supposedly safe investments in these hold­ ing companies...

..., to circumvent its operations.! The Bank of Florida continued its separate existence until 1833 when all its stock, property, and charter rights were bought up by the Central. This bank was allowed a capital of $1,000,000 and now had a paid up capital of$165,055. In some Acts of November 23, 1828, and November...

... in 1819.10 * The other source of revenue was dividends from stock held by the state in the Bank of the Cape Fear, the Bank of Newbern, and the State Bank of North Carolina, the first two corporations having been chartered by the legislature in 1804, the last one in 1810. The power of the banks under...

... concep- tual machinery for constantly modulating ‘‘value’’ throughout the global socius. From the stock market to the corner market and at every playground in between, it’s all about floating rates of exchange: an ongoing question of producing, measuring, and evaluating intensity. It’s all about...

... finances of the state are of as great, if not greater, interest than the appropriations for schools. The most important of the earlier investments by the board were in railway bonds. Reference has already been made to rhe fact that the state invested $600,000 in stock of the Wil­ mington and Raleigh...

... and equal freight rates as they do for profits. The people are not as hostile to the roads as the roads are hostile to any move looking to the elimination of discrimination. STOCK JOBBING AND WATERING. A very considerable part of the discontent of the people against the roads results from the fact...

... of speculation favorable to large enterprises, while the state s revenue was increased by dividends and taxes from bank stock.9 The steps in the evolution of the new policy were halting. There were no guides to be found in experience at home or precedent abroad. Yet the appropriations were, for that day...

... proportions. Among the older stocks there has been a rapid and abundant increase in the number of patriotic societies rest­ ing on direct descent from colonial and other early American and European ancestors, a mounting membership in these organizations, a dynamic interest in genealogies and genealogical...

...Howard Douglas Dozier Copyright © 1931 by Duke University Press 1931 PANICS AND PROGRESS HOWARD DOUGLAS DOZIER IN 1929 thousands of banks had billions of dollars loaned in Wall Street raising the price of stocks which they advised their clients not to buy because they were then too high. Now...

... of organization; and, second, the transformation of stocks into bonds, so as to minimize the fund classed as net earnings. These are not alternative devices that any corporation may adopt; the first is practicable only for the small corporation, the second, for the large one. The United States Steel Corporation...

... boost them to perhaps $60,000. Discounts varied from $50,000 to $75,000 and topped $100,000 after the fertilizer-stock sales­ men came. Surplus and undivided profits were about $3,000. From this it is easy to surmise that it was not much of a power in the financial world. But, as I said...

... carriers are ex­ cluded. The term corporations, however, is comprehensive 152 The South Atlantic Quarterly including any company or association incorporated or unin­ corporated, which is organized to carry on business for profit and has shares of capital or capital stock, and any company or association...

... of 33 per cent on a capital of $369,700. The next year cash dividends of 33 per cent and stock dividends of 447.4 per cent were distributed. Cash dividends continued at modest rates thereafter, but stock dividends of 133 per cent and 100 per cent were passed out in 1863 and 1864, increasing the stated...