Author : John Gapper
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 27,25 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345527895
Reluctantly treating a mentally ill finance capitalist in his home, psychiatrist Ben Cowper inadvertently triggers a series of events that culminate in the demise of an ex-Wall Street figure whose murder Ben must solve to save his career.
Author : Roddy Boyd
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 36,70 MB
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470889802
Long-listed for the FT & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011 The true story of how risk destroys, as told through the ongoing saga of AIG From the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the subject of the financial crisis has been well covered. However, the story central to the crisis-that of AIG-has until now remained largely untold. Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide tells the inside story of what really went on inside AIG that caused it to choke on risk and nearly brining down the entire economic system. The book Reveals inside information available nowhere else, including the personal notes and records of key players such as the former Chairman of AIG, Hank Greenberg Takes readers behind the scenes at the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Details how an understanding of risk built AIG, but a disdain for government regulators led to a run-in with New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer Fatal Risk is the comprehensive and compelling true story of the company at the center of the financial storm and how it nearly caused the entire economic system to collapse.
Author : Rawley Thomas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 37,57 MB
Release : 2012-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1118283244
A must-read book for investors who prefer to pick stocks based on cash flow facts, not on media hype and fiction How to Pick a Stock is written for the contrarian investor who wants an investing method that is based on cash flow facts, not on media hype and speculative impulse. This book combines an accessible presentation of a contrarian investment model and the ValuFocus tool that offers a highly studious, detailed explanation of understanding a company's true intrinsic value. If you can calculate a company's intrinsic value on the basis of knowing if the market is currently under, fairly, or over pricing its stock, then it is possible to invest wisely in the stock market. Investors who want to buy undervalued stocks, or sell (short) overvalued ones will find this book immensely useful. The ValuFocus investing tool calculates the intrinsic value of every company in their database automatically. Thus, an individual investor can become an "A" student of a modeling process, or can go right ahead in using this tool to pick stocks and manage their own portfolio. Additionally, this book helps to develop an enhanced framework to fundamental equity valuation. Contains the ValuFocus tool for calculating the intrinsic value of every company in the LCRT Nucleus database Offers specific and innovative valuation techniques of practicing professionals for individuals to use in picking stocks long-term Highlights the most state-of-the-art approaches to unconventional stock-picking for investors and corporate finance professionals Offering encouragement to individual investors by outlining a model that delivers satisfying returns, How to Pick a Stock is especially useful for those who are patient and believe in longer-term investing horizons.
Author : Harvey Edward Fisk
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 1919
Category :
ISBN :
Author : William A. Pettigrew
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1469611821
In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their natural rights as Britons to trade freely in enslaved Africans. In this comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the RAC, William A. Pettigrew grounds the transatlantic slave trade in politics, not economic forces, analyzing the ideological arguments of the RAC and its opponents in Parliament and in public debate. Ultimately, Pettigrew powerfully reasons that freedom became the rallying cry for those who wished to participate in the slave trade and therefore bolstered the expansion of the largest intercontinental forced migration in history. Unlike previous histories of the RAC, Pettigrew's study pursues the Company's story beyond the trade's complete deregulation in 1712 to its demise in 1752. Opening the trade led to its escalation, which provided a reliable supply of enslaved Africans to the mainland American colonies, thus playing a critical part in entrenching African slavery as the colonies' preferred solution to the American problem of labor supply.
Author : Adair Turner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 2017-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691175985
Why our addiction to debt caused the global financial crisis and is the root of our financial woes Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation. In this eye-opening book, he sets the record straight about what really caused the crisis. It didn’t happen because banks are too big to fail—our addiction to private debt is to blame. Between Debt and the Devil challenges the belief that we need credit growth to fuel economic growth, and that rising debt is okay as long as inflation remains low. In fact, most credit is not needed for economic growth—but it drives real estate booms and busts and leads to financial crisis and depression. Turner explains why public policy needs to manage the growth and allocation of credit creation, and why debt needs to be taxed as a form of economic pollution. Banks need far more capital, real estate lending must be restricted, and we need to tackle inequality and mitigate the relentless rise of real estate prices. Turner also debunks the big myth about fiat money—the erroneous notion that printing money will lead to harmful inflation. To escape the mess created by past policy errors, we sometimes need to monetize government debt and finance fiscal deficits with central-bank money. Between Debt and the Devil shows why we need to reject the assumptions that private credit is essential to growth and fiat money is inevitably dangerous. Each has its advantages, and each creates risks that public policy must consciously balance.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN :
Author : David A. Skeel Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 23,24 MB
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1400828503
Bankruptcy in America, in stark contrast to its status in most other countries, typically signifies not a debtor's last gasp but an opportunity to catch one's breath and recoup. Why has the nation's legal system evolved to allow both corporate and individual debtors greater control over their fate than imaginable elsewhere? Masterfully probing the political dynamics behind this question, David Skeel here provides the first complete account of the remarkable journey American bankruptcy law has taken from its beginnings in 1800, when Congress lifted the country's first bankruptcy code right out of English law, to the present day. Skeel shows that the confluence of three forces that emerged over many years--an organized creditor lobby, pro-debtor ideological currents, and an increasingly powerful bankruptcy bar--explains the distinctive contours of American bankruptcy law. Their interplay, he argues in clear, inviting prose, has seen efforts to legislate bankruptcy become a compelling battle royale between bankers and lawyers--one in which the bankers recently seem to have gained the upper hand. Skeel demonstrates, for example, that a fiercely divided bankruptcy commission and the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress have yielded the recent, ideologically charged battles over consumer bankruptcy. The uniqueness of American bankruptcy has often been noted, but it has never been explained. As different as twenty-first century America is from the horse-and-buggy era origins of our bankruptcy laws, Skeel shows that the same political factors continue to shape our unique response to financial distress.
Author : Dud Crawford
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 1480950548
The Constitutionalist Manifesto By: Dud Crawford America is on the verge of another constitutional confrontation – just like in 1860-1861. The reasons for what are an accelerating dissolution of our Social Contract lie within the Constitution. Author Dud Crawford shows what the problems are and why he believes the U.S. Constitution is a failure. The question is: Do we do what we did the last time and have a civil war or do we create a new Constitution designed to handle the problems we see in America? Dud has written a new Constitution for all citizens to critique and make changes as needed.
Author : Thomas Johnson Michie
Publisher :
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 12,94 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN :
