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Modern Investment Management And The Prudent Man Rule, Creighton R. Meland Jr.

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Modern Investment Management and the Prudent Man Rule by Bevis Longstreth

The Rising Tide Of Reverse Flow: Would A Legislative Breakwater Violate U.S. Treaty Commitments?, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Up to the present the United States has imposed few restrictions on foreign direct investment. It has never enacted any limitations as sweeping as those proposed by the Dent-Gaydos bill. This Note will briefly discuss the need for such restrictions and then examine the extent to which a reversal in policy is permitted by existing U.S. treaty obligations.

American Business And Risk Capital, Emil Schram

Vanderbilt Law Review

In the midst of a nation-wide business surge--in building, in steel, in automobiles and petroleum production and farming--our capital markets stand alone as the one "depressed area" in the national economy.

It is due to the failure of many of those who call the tune on our country's fiscal and credit policies to realize that they are sluicing off the top soil from a resource as definite and tangible as our farms; they are eroding something as measurable as our grazing lands; they are pumping off onto barren ground something as exhaustible as our oil wells.

I am speaking of …

The Sec And The Broker-Dealer, Louis Loss

Vanderbilt Law Review

A couple of weeks ago the Commission handed down an opinion in a broker-dealer revocation proceeding which is the latest in a series of cases over the past few years that have gradually blocked out the duties of a broker-dealer to his customer. That case gives me my theme today.

It happens that most of what I am about to say relates primarily to the over-the-counter market. I was a little disturbed about the propriety of talking about over-the-counter problems under the auspices of this organization. However, we are all interested, I take it, in the problems of the securities …