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(45) Justices such as these, who were both stockjobbers and

It is widely known that the global economy came crashing down on our heads, not because of the stockjobbers, the speculators and the bankers, but because of Mohammed from Syria who is stealing our jobs.

The "stockjobbers" and speculators who held the debt currently had paid a heavily discounted value to acquire the debt, sometimes only a trivial amount.

in public securities between stockjobbers. (130) These acts served to

In 1696, officials passed an act "To Restrain the Number and the Practice of Brokers and Stockjobbers" and effectively banned stockbrokers from trading at the Royal Exchange (Harris 2000, 225).

Early in the 20th century, for example, Charles Beard marshaled evidence purporting to show that, far from being disinterested patriots, the founders were a band of stockjobbers, moneylenders, and land speculators who wrote the Constitution to promote, not the general welfare, but their private fortunes.

In the old British aristocracy, before brewers, press barons, and stockjobbers were ennobled so long as they were friends of the government, status was passed down from generation to generation by families who claimed to have served their country in war and peace.