Popular Financial Delusions

Robert Smitley

Published by Roland Swain Philadelphia, 1933

About this Item

First Edition, a scarce book signed by the author, 338 pages. Pages turning yellow. Small wear top and bottom of the spine. Popular Financial Delusions" in 1933, when the world was in the depths of the Great Depression. He had started out on the New York Stock Exchange but gave it up to buy a bookshop on Wall Street, and he became an expert. Better still, he understood markets--and he had a bigger collection of pithy phrases than the "Oxford Dictionary of Quotations". The book is a collection of about 70 sections, each of which stands on its own. None has any reverence for the sacred cows of the investment world. From the investment trust to the mortgage to the pension, bank deposit, and - yes - even Gold; one after the other Smitley skillfully slices them up, and shows them for what they so often are.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Popular Financial Delusions
• Publisher: Roland Swain Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 1933
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket