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Description of Storage and Stability

A long-awaited reissue of a timeless classic from the father of security analysis.

Considered by top Wall Street investors to be enduring models even for today's complex financial strategies, Graham's eloquent and groundbreaking theories have influenced and guided both professional and individual investors fro more than half a century.

In Storage and Stability, his 1937 study on supply and demand, production and consumption, and their impact on value investing, readers will catch a rare and rewarding glimpse into Graham's social theories and their impact on his investment strategies. The reissue of this historic masterpiece ushers in the new Benjamin Graham Classics series, and is sure to earn a coveted place on any investor's bookshelf.

Title Information

ISBN:

9780070247741

Pages:

300 pages

Format:

Hardback

Product Code:

9395

Publisher:

McGraw-Hill Professional

Published:

01/01/1970

Edition:

Repr. Edition

Press and Industry Reviews

'Graham ranks as this century's (and perhaps history's) most important thinker on applied portfolio investment.'
John Train, writing in The Money Masters

'Graham's ideas...formed a framework of thinking about the stock market that has inspired the investment community for nearly a century.'
SmartMoney

'Graham's method of investing is as relevant today as it was when he first espoused it during the Roaring Twenties.'
Investor's Business Daily


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Contents of Storage and Stability

Part One - The Challenge of Surplus
1. The changing role of surplus stocks
2. Government and surplus stocks
3. The problem of conserving surplus

Part Two - The Commodity Reservoir
4. A plan for conserving surplus
5. The reservoir system and the individual commodities
6. The question of price stability
7. The reservoir system and the general business cycle
8. Ultimate uses of the stored commodity units
9. The cost of the reservoir plan

Part Three - Monetary Aspects Of The Reservoir Plan
10. The currency of the US
11. The status of gold and silver
12. Commodity-backed versus other currency
13. The reservoir plan and credit control

Part Four - Agricultural Relief and The Ever-Normal Granary
14. Farm problems and remedies
15. The 1937 farm legislation - The Ever-Normal Granary
16. The Reservoir plan versus crop control as a method of farm relief

Part Five - Other Aspects Of The Reservoir Plan
17. International aspects of the plan
18. Precedents and related proposals
19. The reservoir plan and the Democratic tradition

Chapter Notes

Appendix I Tables III to X
Appendix II

Index