Men and Mysteries of Wall Street - James K. Medbery

nNow 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!