Men and mysteries of wall street (Cosimo Classics)

Now it can be told! The secrets and insider knowledge of high finance-as the industry stood in 1878-are all revealed here in this curious and now entirely historical work of post-Civil War financial journalism. Discover.. How the New York Stock Exchange operated before the telephone!. What kept the "machinery of speculation" greased. The scheming of 19th-century stockbrokers. The "habits and humors" of the Street at the time. And more!