The Real Truth About Short Selling.
FREDERICK (J. George).

The Real Truth About Short Selling.

First edition. 8vo. 255, [1] pp. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver (contents clean and unmarked; corners slightly worn, still a very good copy overall). New York, Business Bourse, Publishers, 1932.

£375.00

A highly typical work on the immediate fallout from the 1929 Great Crash in which the author, like many others at the time, blamed short selling for America’s ills:

‘We now know that short selling in a market in which millions of the public participate affords (at least in times of severe depression) an unsound and dangerous opportunity for privately profiting from delay of recovery and ruthless trampling on the weak and defenceless. At such times it is a kind of refined ghoulishness …’

Dennistoun, 702.

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