Where The Money Grows (1911) - Softcover

Garrett, Garet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1120955874 ISBN 13: 9781120955876

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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From the Publisher

Where the Money Grows is a colorful chronicle of the ways in which money circulates in the markets, and of the diverse, devious, and dynamic characters in hot pursuit. With insights that remain brilliantly on target today, Where the Money Grows concisely captures the quirks, deceptions, idiosyncrasies, and downright craziness of the most famous street in the world. You'll walk down the "Hall of Delusions" and meet "The Trader," "The Hoodoo," "The Manipulator," and "The Wall Street Wolf," among others. Also included is a scintillating article, "Anatomy of the Bubble" in which Garrett unmasks the "debt" bubble and displays uncanny prescience.

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"The easiest way into Wall Street is by the Hall of Delusions, through which many have entered who forgot to return. That door stands always wide open. No legend of warning affronts the eye. There ought to be one, and it should read: ‘No Safe Conduct Here.’" —from Where the Money Grows A tour d’horizon of Wall Street and the creatures who inhabit it, Where the Money Grows has withstood the test of time to become a true investment classic. Filled with salient observations and rich portraits that are as incisive today as they were decades ago, this entertaining volume brings Wall Street past and present to vibrant life. Now, with a new Foreword by Esquire financial columnist Christopher Byron, Where the Money Grows introduces a new audience to—as well as reacquaints old admirers with—a milestone work long considered to be one of the best investment books ever written. Written by Garet Garrett, a leading financial writer widely admired for his wry wit and inimitable sense of satire, Where the Money Grows is a colorful chronicle of the ways in which money circulates in the markets, and of the diverse, devious, and dynamic characters in hot pursuit. With insights that remain brilliantly on target today, Where the Money Grows concisely captures the quirks, deceptions, idiosyncrasies, and downright craziness of the most famous street in the world. With Garrett as your guide, you’ll walk down the "Hall of Delusions" and meet "The Trader," "The Hoodoo," "The Manipulator," and "The Wall Street Wolf," among others. And in chapters such as "The Way of a Client" and "Taking Trouble Home," you’ll read about—and no doubt recognize—some of the traditions and superstitions that have been a part of Wall Street life and legend since the beginning. Who, for example, doesn’t recognize Garrett’s description of certain august institutions? "About a large private banking house in Wall Street there is an air of omniscience as if nothing unexpected could ever happen. Doors do not slam, men walk softly upon rugs, voices are never lifted in feverish excitement over profit and loss ... Ceilings in a banking house are higher than ceilings anywhere else." Or his portrait of "The Hoodoo": "The hoodoo is often a man whom everybody likes, speaks well of, and recommends to everyone else, with one reservation—he is a man who has unaccountably not succeeded...Wall Street people may or may not be superstitious, but they think it pays to associate with success and avoid failure in its personal embodiment." Or "The Trader": "His brokers buy him lunch at midday, dinner uptown at night, and pet him when he is winning. He pretends to scorn them." Succinct, yet enormously humorous and revealing, Where the Money Grows is a treasure of a book that takes its well-deserved place among the annals of classic investment literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1120955874
• ISBN 13: 9781120955876
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 80