INVESTMENTS AND SECURITIES

Stock Exchange securities—Government and municipal loans—Machinery of loan issue—Underwriting—The Prospectus—Sinking fund—Bonds and coupons—Registered stocks—Companies' securities—Stock Exchange dealings

[CHAPTER IV]

FINANCE AND TRADE

Why money goes abroad—Trade before finance—Prejudice in favour of home investments—Prejudice against them—The reaction—Mexico and Brazil—Neutral moneylenders and the war—Goods and services lent and borrowed—The trade balance

[CHAPTER V]

THE BENEFITS OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCE

International finance and trade—Opening up the world—Exchange of products—Finance as peacemaker—Popular delusions concerning financiers—Financiers and the present war—The cases of Egypt and the Transvaal—Diplomacy and finance

[CHAPTER VI]

THE EVILS OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCE