Who it is for
It is useful for readers interested in financial crime history, nineteenth-century institutions, memoir, and the chapter’s focus on bull, bear, bucket shop. It should not be read as legal, financial, or operational guidance.
English reader · Project Gutenberg #44052
Wall Street Dictionary
Profitable Stock Exchange Investments. English-only reading by default; switch among English, Chinese, and Spanish, or compare languages side by side.
Chapter summary
This chapter develops the memoir’s account of Wall Street Dictionary, connecting personal narrative with the financial, legal, and prison-world setting of the period. The chapter’s opening perspective is: 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.
Modern reader note
The events and institutions in this chapter belong to a specific historical setting. Banking procedures, criminal justice, prison conditions, public records, and social norms around bull, bear, bucket shop may not match modern practice.
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