History of Financial Advice Collection. This was one of three guides penned anonymously by future Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in 1825 to promote the Latin American mining ventures in which he and his publisher, John Murray, were invested. Something of a cut-and-paste job from company prospectuses, the pamphlet’s main contribution was political. Spooked by the prospect of action by lawyers and legislators to curb the trade in the shares of unincorporated companies at a time when the Bubble Act of 1720 was still on the statue books, An Inquiry made the case for the export of capital at the expense of domestic investment. Whereas the profits from domestic enterprises merely involved redistribution of profits from one party (e.g. canal owners) to another (railway proprietors), by foreign investment were “the interests and resources of great nations supported and expanded.” The pamphlet was a success, rapidly going through three editions, and its arguments may have contributed to the repeal of the Bubble Act later in 1825. But the mining schemes it promoted were less successful, and with prices collapsing, Disraeli and Murray made substantial losses on their speculations.