This is the time when leaders in business are called upon to prophesy in the public prints, and do so. This year they have done so in great numbers, with great unanimity. Banker, lawyer, merchant-chiefall have rehearsed the Experts' Plan, agricultural revival, easy money, et cetera, et ceteraand have declared their optimism.
This favorable sanction under which business enters the year 1925 has been accompanied by an old-fashioned bull swing in the stock market, of great persistence and power. People not only are told that they are likely to make money during the next twelve monthsthey are already doing it in stocks.
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