Word: investors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This reasoning, divorced from its lunatic-fringe manifestations, is sound enough: the U.S. investor has too long taken a jaundiced view of the rest of the world. But the new foreign speculation has been accompanied by persistent defeatism about the prospects of many much healthier domestic securities. So far as peace at home is concerned, the average U.S. investor is still suffering from a 1930-style persecution complex...
...Denver air meeting: "Let us suppose that all of the air transportation of the U.S. had been developed by one company only. Logically, it can be proven in almost any field that monopoly could have been cheaper, that it could have avoided duplication of facilities, could have afforded the investor greater security by taking fewer risks, and could have established stability as its cardinal virtue...
After the war, Bernie Baruch went back to finance-this time as a creative investor. He made money during the '20s, quietly liquidated his investments before the 1929 crash. He went on serving as unofficial adviser to Presidents: Harding, Coolidge, Hoover. Under Franklin Roosevelt he has been a mother lode of fact and theory to the Administration-as well as its severest friendly critic...
...insulation gold thus provided between finance and politics gave politicians and investors of the same country a useful degree of freedom from each other's affairs. It is not a politician's business to be wholly consistent. Indeed it is often his duty to change. He may, for instance, wish to be stern toward a smaller country at one time, lenient two years later, and conciliatory three years after that. But any change that can radically affect values is a change the investor cannot afford...
...investors were scarcely interested. Although under pressure they absorbed the bonds of German cities, South American republics and Japanese utilities, they did not get the habit of buying foreign securities and go shopping for more. On the contrary, they sold. Transactions on the exchanges showed a net decrease in U.S. holdings of foreign securities of $830 million between 1922 and 1930. The U.S. investor preferred to bid up securities at home...