Moody's Investment Survey.

A complete run of Moody's Investment Survey for the years 1933 to 1935, an important weekly review of the financial markets with corresponding stock and bond sections (here bound in separate volumes), and a cumulative index for each year-end.

The periodical was published by Moody's Investors Service, one of the Big Three credit ratings agencies which continue to operate today. Its founder, John Moody (1868-1958), withstood several market crashes to get his business on its feet. As Thomas Friedman quipped in 1996 'There are two superpowers in the world today in my opinion. There's the United States and there's Moody's Bond Rating Service. The United States can destroy you by dropping bombs, and Moody's can destroy you by downgrading your bonds. And believe me, it's not clear sometimes who's more powerful'.

With provenance for The John Crerar Library, a research collection endowed by the American industrialist John Crerar (1827-1889) now administered by the University of Chicago.

Periodical, 6 vols; 4to (28 x 22 cm); bookplate for John Crerar Library to front pastedown of each vol., library stamp for The University of Miami Library to front pastedown and fore edge of each vol., library stamp for John Crerar Library to weekly periodical title throughout; contemporary black cloth, title and library shelf mark for John Crerar Library in gilt to spine, corners bumped, joints and spine ends with minor wear.