Thousands of letters asking immediate financial legislation are now pouring in on Members of Congress. Some are written in good faith with the honest hope of influencing Congressmen in favor of just legislation. But the majority of the letters received are from
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The Congressmen receive a dozen and
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Having defined what I am convinced to have been the original and
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Chapter 4.
SHORT SELLING.
We hear many objections raised against short selling, going short in the sales of stocks, securities, grain, provisions, etc., on the market. Short selling means the selling of what the vendor does not possess. In Congress there is pending at all times one or
crockett national bank and more bills purposed to prohibit this practice. There is, at the present time, serious consideration of passing a bill which will prohibit all short selling, because
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crockett national bank as well charge the consumers more. This short selling is a much more comprehensive affair than the sponsors of the bills referred to have allowed the public to gather from
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It is from
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crockett national bank and settles with him for whatever the actual market price is at the time for final settlement. The banker is doing the same thing with the dollar.
All of the money in all of the banks and
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crockett national bank as well the banks owe approximately twenty billion dollars. There is not enough money in all of their vaults to pay one-tenth of what they owe. There is not money
enough in the whole country, including that outside of the banks, to pay one-sixth of what they owe. That statement may sound a little different from
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crockett national bank and to those who understand the effect of existing facts,—conditions,—it is clear that the banks are sold short just as
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Let us follow these facts further as
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first midwest bank and they are all short sold. There is, however, one difference between the banker's practice of short selling, and
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crockett national bank as well ordinarily the banker simply credits him on the books of the bank, with the amount of the note less the interest. The bank does not part with the cash, but
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crockett national bank as well therefore, merely transfers the credit to someone else, for these checks are, in most cases, deposited instead of cashed. The bank continues to draw interest on the note. The party who borrowed sold short to the bank by agreeing to deliver to the bank, when due, the number of dollars that his note calls for, and
chase bank of texas as well the bank sold short to the borrower by agreeing to deliver to him that many dollars before the note comes due. Now, in that transaction there were two short sales. The man who borrowed the money agreed to pay at a future date what he did not have when he borrowed, and
crockett national bank as well the banker agreed to pay immediately what he would not have had if he had first paid his other demand obligations. Now, the difference in the way that deal was conducted, and
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crockett national bank and provisions to be delivered), does not pay interest to the person so selling.
Anyone who carefully investigates the effect of this fact upon the cost of living will find that the short-selling operations of the stock gamblers influence the cost of living far less than the short selling which I have described as
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