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Where are the customers' yachts?, or A good hard look at Wall Street / Fred Schwed, Jr. ; illustrated by Peter Arno, introduction by Jason Zweig.

By: Schwed, Fred.
Series: Wiley investment classics. Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2006Description: xxxv, 170 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780471770893 (pbk.); 0471770892 (pbk.).Other title: Good hard look at Wall Street.Subject(s): Stocks | Investments | Stocks -- Humor | Investments -- Humor | Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) | Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- Humor | Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- Caricatures and cartoonsDDC classification: 332.64273
Contents:
I. Introduction-the modest cough of a minor poet - II. Financiers and seers - III. Customers-that hardy breed - IV. Investment trusts-promises and performance - V. The short seller-he of the black heart - VI. Puts, calls, straddles, and gabble - VII. The good old days and the great captains - VIII. Investment-many questions and a few answers - IX. Reform-some yeas and nays - About the author.
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Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1940.

I. Introduction-the modest cough of a minor poet - II. Financiers and seers - III. Customers-that hardy breed - IV. Investment trusts-promises and performance - V. The short seller-he of the black heart - VI. Puts, calls, straddles, and gabble - VII. The good old days and the great captains - VIII. Investment-many questions and a few answers - IX. Reform-some yeas and nays - About the author.