 | Andy Hargreaves - 2003 - 241 lapas
...quicksilver into a malleable fine metal, creating a wheel for perpetual motion and, most improbably of all, "for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage: but nobody to know what it is."1 This period of delirious, widespread speculation in ventures of questionable substance and merit... | |
 | Francis Wheen - 2005 - 340 lapas
...from Lead"; "For trading in Human Hair"; "For a Wheel of Perpetual Motion"; and, most gloriously, 35 "a Company for carrying on an Undertaking of Great Advantage, but Nobody to know what it is." Similarly, some of Wall Street's best-performing stocks in 1987 were enterprises that had neither profits... | |
 | David Skeel - 2005 - 261 lapas
...Drexel's highly confident letter was the modern-day equivalent of the South Sea bubble venture styled as "a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." In effect, the highly confident letter was nothing more than Drexel's statement that its partners had... | |
 | George Courtauld - 2005 - 76 lapas
...the South Sea Bubble: 1714 Gabriel Fahrenheit makes the first mercury thermometer 1715 Louis XIV dies "An undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." Company prospectus of the South Sea Bubble 1721 Sir Robert Walpole becomes First or 'Prime' Minister... | |
 | Mark Shipman - 2006 - 204 lapas
...control this investment boom had now become came from a shady entrepreneur who decided to sell shares in 'a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is'. The prospectus guaranteed an annual return of £100 for every £2 share purchased. You may have thought... | |
 | Merry E. Wiesner - 2006 - 522 lapas
...Other companies suddenly appeared, offering shares in various overseas enterprises, some as vague as "a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." The directors of the South Sea Company realized the stock was dramatically overvalued and began selling;... | |
 | Alex Boese - 2006 - 292 lapas
...balls. Another invited the public to invest with returns of over 100 percent every year in "a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." Within a day people had snatched up almost one thousand shares whereupon the scheme's inventor... | |
 | R. A. Rayman - 2006 - 244 lapas
...more criticism - or amusement - than an enterprise promoted at about the time of the South Sea Bubble 'for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is' . It is number 17 on the list of 'Bubble-Companies' declared illegal by order of the Lords Justices... | |
 | R. A. Rayman - 2006 - 248 lapas
...criticism or amusement than an enterprise promoted at about the time of the South Sea Bubble 'Jor carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is' . It is number 17 on the list of 'Bubble-Companies' declared illegal by order of the Lords Justices... | |
 | Lutz Arnold - 2006 - 496 lapas
...Sea Company trat in England eine ganze Welle von dubiosen AG-Gründungen los, eine davon nannte sich A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody knows what it is" und verkaufte erfolgreich alle angebotenen Aktien. Die Mississippi-Bubble platzte... | |
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