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Stock Jobber
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Stock Jobber
An investor who buys stocks only to resell them at a profit very quickly. Stock jobbing is a short-term investment strategy that operates on the assumption or existence of liquid markets. The practice, when done over and over by a large number of stock jobbers, can lead to a speculative bubble. See also: Flipping.


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Far from being political demigods, the Framers were agents of the rich--of the bondholders, speculators, stockjobbers, bankers, and lawyers.
193) After chapters focusing on the distinct and less comprehensive manner in which the valuation survey impinged on Ireland and on Scotland, Short reminds the reader in his conclusion of the various contexts in which his subject may be placed: Commons versus Lords; Radical Liberal versus Patrician Tory; Land versus Stockjobber Capital; the growing power of the bureaucratic state.
 
 
 
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