These records can be compared with and verified by the financial records of the New York Stock Exchange, as published through the regular channels, so that the bondholder can at all times assure himself that we have done just what we claim to have done, and that he has secured his just and equitable share of the profits of the operation.
WALL STREET DICTIONARY
We give below a few definitions of some of the more important words used in the financial operations of Wall Street.
The Street itself has been the center of finance of this country for nearly a hundred years, when the New York Stock Exchange was established.
Here are offices of the greatest and wealthiest financiers the world has ever known.
It is the greatest speculative center in this or any other country.
Here are found the men who create and handle railroads and the largest industrial enterprises in the world.
In the Exchange millions of dollars' worth of stocks and bonds are bought and sold every day.
Here are found hundreds of banks, trust and safe deposit institutions, private bankers and capitalists, a money center which controls seven-tenths of all the money in America.
In Wall Street you may buy or sell one or more shares of the stock of any great railway or industrial company in the country.