Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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MEYER (CAPITAL INVESTMENT) AND SOURCE REFERENCES

Literature

Dr. A. Meyer, business editor of the Neue Zürcher
Zeitung
. Capital Investment (Zurich, 1912).

 Written by a “practician”: advice to capitalists.

 Statistics of company profits, pp. 130-32.

 In Britain, 38,928 companies were formed from
1893 to 1902. Of these, 14,538=37 per cent had to go
into liquidation!! In France the number of companies
forced into liquidation was about 10 per cent (Leroy-
Beaulieu).

To be noted from the literature:

Wilhelm Gehrden, The Secret of Success on the Stock
 Exchange
, Berlin. (no date?)
a German private speculator, who describes his “pers-
onal experience”, p. 139: “a very minute number” win
on the stock exchange.

p. 149: one in fifty cases of winning in deals on
margin. ((Abundant examples of swindling, etc.,
etc.))
Africanus, Cold-Mining Shares as Capital Invest-
 ment
, Leipzig, 2nd edition, 1911.

W. Ruppel, Business in Mining Shares, Jena, 1909.
René Nouel, Joint-Stock Companies, Paris, 1911.

? J. Steiger, Trusts and Cartels Abroad and in Switzer-
 land
, Zurich.

H. Albert, The Historical Development of the Interest
 Rate in Germany, 1895-1908
.

Curle, The Gold Mines of the World, London, 1902.

Gumpel, Speculation in Gold-Mining Shares (Freiburg,
 1903).

Th. Huber, How to Read a Balance-Sheet (Stuttgart, 1910).

Robert Stern, The Commercial Balance-Sheet (Leipzig,
 1907).

H. Brosius, The Balance-Sheet (Leipzig, 1906).

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