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Economists are generally agreed that speculation normally performs some very vital functions. The economist does not defend monopolistic speculation--the effort to "corner" the market. Such efforts--more likely to be successful in the stock market than in the grain market, because the capital required to control a corporation is vastly less than that required to control the world's stock of a great staple grain--have been made, and have at times had demoralizing effects. When made, they should be punished mercilessly. It does not appear, however, that monopolistic combinations by speculators dealing in "futures" is the cause...
...commercial supremacy? At the termination of the war, I venture to predict that the competition in the world maker will be felt more and more keen, not between England and Germany but between American and the victorious party. Also I venture to predict that the busy market will be found in China, whose untold resource have long surprised the whole world...
...slightest consideration it will appear that this is not true. Many of us are here for seven years or more; a great many more for four years, a period as long as millions of citizens spend in one town, because of the varying demands of the labor market and shifting business conditions. Men of Cambridge, we are interested in your local affairs. We are in business here, in the business of training ourselves to take a more responsible part in the life of the country. Our interest in Harvard University extends to its environment. What are our qualifications...
...wrought many changes in our life. Our classmates have gone in the ambulance service. We have worked during the summer in munitions plants or have attended a Plattsburg Camp. It has caused a fundamental economic change in the relation of our country to the gold market of the world. Yet, baldly stated, has it brought in its train anything more marvelous than the introduction of Venus for anatomical study...
...price's the thing, no doubt. Is it a bargain? Possibly not, because the new owner could have the option of cultivating the ground and finding his market in Combes, or of staking out a battlefield and doing business with tourists when peace returns. What an opportunity for a man with the historic instinct! But will France permit showmen to desecrate the soil where her heroic sons have given up their lives for human liberty? The great battlefields of the war from the Somme to Verdun should be set apart and dedicated to educational and patriotic uses for all time...