Rick Sam's Reviews > Confusion de Confusiones [1688]: Portions Descriptive of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange

Joseph Penso de la Vegas was a well known Jewish merchant, poet, writer near Antwerp. He writes about things happening inside Amsterdam Stock Market. He gives little snippets of stories happening in everyday life.

He says people are driven with greed, they make up stories, deceit, switch sides just to make profits. I am sure that some of them still happen today in Modern Stock Market. There are four types of people who buy stocks:

i) Wealthy
ii) Occasional Speculators
iii) Bankers
iv) Merchants

Anyway, I came across Shepard Jew and Ashkenazim Jew in this book. It is sad to hear that some of the Jews did not have place to stay in Europe. Some pretended to be new Christians in order to take refuge.



Deus Vult
--Gottfried--