Финансист

Chapter VI

           Suspicion,intuition,feeling—thesewerethethingstobe"long"on.

           Yetintimehealsoaskedhimself,whowasitwhomadetherealmoney—thestock-brokers?Notatall.Someofthemweremakingmoney,buttheywere,ashequicklysaw,likealotofgullsorstormypetrels,hangingontheleeofthewind,hungryandanxioustosnapupanyunwaryfish.Backofthemwereothermen,menwithshrewdideas,subtleresources.Menofimmensemeanswhoseenterpriseandholdingsthesestocksrepresented,themenwhoschemedoutandbuilttherailroads,openedthemines,organizedtradingenterprises,andbuiltupimmensemanufactories.Theymightusebrokersorotheragentstobuyandsellon‘change;butthisbuyingandsellingmustbe,andalwayswas,incidentaltotheactualfact—themine,therailroad,thewheatcrop,theflourmill,andsoon.Anythinglessthanstraight-outsalestorealizequicklyonassets,orbuyingtoholdasaninvestment,wasgamblingpureandsimple,andthesemenweregamblers.Hewasnothingmorethanagambler’sagent.Itwasnottroublinghimanyjustatthismoment,butitwasnotatallamysterynow,whathewas.AsinthecaseofWaterman&Company,hesizedupthesemenshrewdly,judgingsometobeweak,somefoolish,someclever,someslow,butinthemainallsmall-mindedordeficientbecausetheywereagents,tools,orgamblers.Aman,arealman,mustneverbeanagent,atool,oragambler—actingforhimselforforothers—hemustemploysuch.Arealman—afinancier—wasneveratool

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