Author : Robert H. Smith
Publisher : OakHill Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Bank mergers
ISBN : 9781886939332
Smith, the former chairman and CEO of Security Pacific, recounts his desperate search for a merger partner that ended with Bank of America.
Author : Scott Fearon
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1137279648
Hedge fund manager Scott Fearon explains why failure in business is not only common, but necessary—and how spotting it early can pay off
Author : Charlie McGregor
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 15,68 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385066747
Author : John Tamny
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1594038325
The Federal Reserve is one of the most disliked entities in the United States at present, right alongside the IRS. Americans despise the Fed, but they’re also generally a bit confused as to why they distrust our central bank. Their animus is reasonable, though, because the Fed’s most famous function—targeting the Fed funds rate—is totally backwards. John Tamny explains this backwardness in terms of a Taylor Swift concert followed by a ride home with Uber. In modern times, he points out, the notion of credit has been perverted, so that most people believe it’s money and that the supply of it can therefore be increased. This false notion has aggrandized the Fed with power that it can’t possibly use wisely. The contrast between the grinding poverty of Baltimore and the abundance of Silicon Valley helps illustrate the problem, along with stories about Donald Trump, Robert Downey Jr., Jim Harbaugh (the Michigan football coach), and robots. Who Needs the Fed? makes a sober case against the Federal Reserve by explaining what credit really is, and why the Fed’s existence is inimical to its creation. Readers will come away entertained, much more knowledgeable, and prepared to argue that the Fed is merely superfluous on its best days but perilous on its worst.
Author : Gary Towner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,46 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1633557804
Ex-CIA Johnny Walker of all people should have known Charlie wouldn't die easy. Soon after they meet again, this time atop a Mexican pyramid ruin, agent Summers squirms, rope-bound between two pillars. She's become an unwilling pawn of Charlie's evil plan to wreak revenge on Walker. Charlie never was known for fighting fair—at the apex of the battle between them, Charlie puts Walker into a deep hypnotic trance with a buzzword his thugs got from Walker's psychiatrist after they shot him. A sudden noise brings Walker out of his frozen state, but as Charlie pulls the trigger, two shots ring out.
Author : Danny Schechter
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1459607635
Schechter goes right for the jugular in this rich and informative analysis of the financial crisis and its roots. Not errors, accident, market uncertainties, and so on, but crime; major and serious crime. A harsh judgment, but it's not easy to dismiss the case that he constructs. - Noam Chomsky Veteran journalist Danny Schechter investigates a complex web of fraud and crime that he shows played a major - if largely unreported - role in bringing the economy down. His four-year investigation focuses on three interconnected cesspools of corruption; what the FBI calls an epidemic of mortgage fraud, predatory and deceptive securitization by Wall Street, and insurance scams.
Author : Barbara E Pleasant
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1625169884
In a paranormal romance story, Stacy Winters falls from a ladder at work, hits her head and dies. The store manager gives her CPR and brings her back where she wakes no longer as Stacy Winters, but in a strange parallel world, with the new name of Ellen Moore and to her horror, no memory of ever having a life in this new world. Ezekiel is a soul gatherer being punished for the terrible sin of throwing away his precious gift of life by committing suicide. His assignment as soul gatherer was to help Stacy’s soul out of her dead body, and escort her to heaven. However when she was brought back to life, her life’s clock was reset. Ezekiel now waits for her new life’s clock to run down. However, something has happened. While Ezekiel watched Stacy from afar, he fell in love with her.Ellen notices an incredibly handsome man watching her who is always dressed in black. She has a suspicion of who he is and was sure, when she saw Ezekiel on the street helping a soul his dead body. She later confronted him with the knowledge. He admitted, yes he is a soul gatherer, and works for heaven hoping to gain absolution for his sin. Ellen and Ezekiel continue to meet and become friends even though Ezekiel knows contact between a spirit from his world, and a mortal in this world is forbidden. Their relationship grows and they begin to wish for the impossible, a life together
Author : William Lesser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 27,40 MB
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317477324
While there are lengthy texts discussing the economics of why and how governments regulate business and apply antitrust, this book is unique in providing the details of current business regulation in many industries through lengthy examples the author develops with the use of cases, including Harvard Business School cases. Students are then guided to devise business strategies of introducing new products within the scope of regulation (known or unknown). While the economic theories of regulation are covered, the focus of this text is a "hands-on coping" with regulation and using regulation as a business strategy to deal with competitors. Online instructor's materials are also available for adopters.
Author : T. V. Gopalakrishnan
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 14,48 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788172111823
The book deals with the problem of Non-Performing Advances (NPAs) in public sector banks and its impact on the banks' books, banking and financial system of the economy. Recognizing the inevitable and festering nature of the problem, the author has come out, inter alia, with a statistical model as an innovative, simple and practical solution to contain NPA formation to ensure a strong balance sheet for banks and improved image of the borrowers. The author claims that the solution will prove to be a win-win situation for all stakeholders of banks including the economy, and its constituents Government, shareholders, depositors, borrowers, employees and others. Salient Features Changes brought about in banks under Banking Sector Reforms. • Emergence of NPAs in banks. • Problem of NPAs: Its causes and effects. • Performance of Public sector banks on management of NPAs. • Impact of NPAs on the economy, banks’ balance sheets and profit and loss accounts. • Suggestions to contain NPAs from the angles of banks, borrowers, Government, Regulator and others. • A Statistical Model developed to contain formation of NPAs, strengthen banks' balance sheets and develop an emotional rapport between banks and borrowers.
Author : Darren Oldridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1134442157
Strange Histories presents a serious account of some of the most extraordinary occurrences of European and North American history and explains how they made sense to people living at the time. Using case studies from the Middle Ages and the early modern period, this book provides fascinating insights into the world-view of a vanished age and shows how such occurences fitted in quite naturally with the "common sense" of the time. Explanations of these phenomena, riveting and ultimately rational, encourage further reflection on what shapes our beliefs today. What made reasonable, educated men and women behave in ways that seem utterly nonsensical to us today? This question and many more are answered in this fascinating book.
