It is hard for a banker to know how to operate these days.

I wish you gentlemen in Downing Street, Mr.Simpson, would make it easier for us." Mr.Simpson shrugged his shoulders.
"The real truth of the matter is," he said, "that you allow your money-market to become too sensitive an affair.

A whisper will depress it.

A threatening word spoken in the Reichstag or in the House of Parliament, magnified a hundred-fold before it reaches its destination, has sometimes a most unwarranted effect upon markets.

You mustn't blame us so much, Mr.Draconmeyer.You jump at conclusions too easily in the city." "Sound common sense," Mr.Draconmeyer agreed.