Archive for the 'Economics' Category

Thrift and Prosperity 1930

THE FIVE FAT YEARS
THE subject is thrift. It happens to be a favorite topic with columnist W.G. Sibley of the Chicago Journal of Commerce.
He advances the idea that in almost every normal man’s life there are five years in which it is easy to make money, and those five years, whether they come soon or [...]

Treasury Bonds and Certificates 1927

ANOTHER RUSH FOR TREASURY OFFERINGS
THE oversubscription of the twin Treasury offers for September seems significant to the press as another evidence of the plentifulness of investment funds and of the success of the Government in putting its indebtedness on a lover interest basis with consequent ultimate saving to the taxpayer. Two offerings were made, it [...]

Cheap Silver Lowers Wheat Price 1930

Why Cheap Silver Cheapens Wheat
TWO price phenomena that attract world-wide attention are the very low price of wheat and the world-wide decline in the value of silver.
This is a great deal more than a coincidence, one statistical observer is inclined to think.
The Cambridge Associates of Boston have prepared a chart, here reproduced, which shows that [...]

US Exports 1927

WHAT THE WORLD WANTS TO BUY FROM US
ROMANCE is found by a Western editor in one of the “dollars and cents service” bulletins of the Department of Commerce noting actual inquiries received by the Department from thirty-two foreign countries regarding specific American products they desire to purchase. It seems that “what the world wants includes [...]

World War 1 War Debts 1925

EFFECT OF WAR-DEBT FUNDING ON FOREIGN BONDS
FRANCE, Belgium, and other European countries have recently been funding their floating war debts to the United States Government. It happens that these countries have also floated a number of government bond issues in the United States, and the bonds have been sold to American investors and are being [...]

Status of Credit Unions 1925

THE CREDIT UNIONâ€””E PLURIBUS UNUM BANKING’
COOPERATIVE banking for the man of small means is being developed in this country by the credit union, which does for the small borrower for miscellaneous needs what the Building and Loan Association does for the home-builder. Credit unions have existed in Europe for three-quarters of a century. In this [...]