High Finance
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High Finance - Otto H. Kahn
Otto H. Kahn
High Finance
EAN 8596547418214
DigiCat, 2022
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The term high finance
derives its origin from the French haute finance,
which in France as elsewhere in Europe designates the most eminently respectable, the most unqualifiedly trustworthy amongst financial houses.
Why has that term, in becoming acclimated in this country, gradually come to suggest a rather different meaning?
Why does there exist in the United States, alone amongst the great nations, a widespread attitude of suspicion, indeed in many quarters, of virtual hostility, toward the financial community and especially toward the financial activities which focus in New York, the country's financial capital?
There are a number of causes and for some of them finance cannot be absolved from responsibility. But the primary underlying and continuing cause is lack of clear appreciation of what finance means and stands for and is needed for. And from this there has sprung a veritable host of misconceptions, prejudices, superstitions and catch-phrases.
Never was it of more importance than in the present emergency that the people should have a clear and correct understanding of the meaning and significance of finance, indeed of high finance,
and that they should approach the subject calmly and dispassionately and