A woman’s bonds, a break in turpentine stock, a tipster’s scheme, a man who made a hundred thousand and lost it: these tales move through brokers’ offices and Stock Exchange floors at the height of the speculative boom. Lefevre, a financial journalist, shows how greed, nerve and rumour play out in the ticker’s world.
Shrewd stories of speculation by the author later famous for Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. Download the free EPUB.