The Life and Times of Harry Broadtape


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Greedy, self-indulgent, lascivious, a bemedaled war hero by accident, Thaddeus Harrison Brodtap III -- Harry Broadtape -- is a veritable Flashman of Wall Street. Beginning in the mid-1950s, Harry's lusts -- for money, good times, and most of all beautiful women -- propel him on a roller coaster ride of financial and bedroom maneuvers that expose the inner workings of Wall Street.




Harry Broadtape - Volume III - the Years Alone Together


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Now into his twenty-first year in investment business, Harry has lost the last of his great mentors. With Mr. Erhlich's passing, both he and his lovely partner Anna Maria Massilon must fend for themselves in the confusing aftermath following the breakdown in the international financial system. The partnership had been highly successful under the tutelage of the old man. 'Dirty Harry' and the 'Spider Lady', as they were now being called in international circles, inherit this billion-dollar partnership; thereby, becoming the target of every get rich scheme known to man.Now in Volume III, the couple is squarely confronted with a new order of things ' a transactional Wall Street taking control from the traditional relationship-oriented Old Guard. The computer had finally been harnessed as the new means of creating massive amounts of readily saleable non-securities, securities. The birth of derivatives and a totally credit-based world economy is the arena in which they must now play.




Harry Broadtape, Volume II - The Expatriate Years


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After fifteen years of productive self-indulgence on Wall Street, Harry Broadtape is now about to change his venue. Over the protest of his band of misfits and co-conspirators, Harry makes a big move to Vancouver BC and a partnership with an aging German expatriate to help fill in the blanks to his next scheme of exploitation - the breakdown in the international payment system. Included in the package is the Old Man's twenty-five year old assistant. This outspoken, street smart, gorgeous creature of Northern Italian extraction is more than a match for our diabolical, but ambition-less hero. Not since Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man series of books and motion pictures, has there been a couple that has gotten themselves into and out of more trouble than Harry and his Anna Maria. Gold, oil and the international currencies markets with all their attendant geopolitical intrigue now become the palate for our favorite artist's anti-Establishment renderin




Harry Broadtape - Volume IV - Die Gotterdammerung... Maybe?


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Despite the fact that he had been trying to withdraw from the world of finance since the early 1980s, Harry's karma always presented situations that managed to keep him in the game. The common thread to these ongoing business dealings now seems, in one way or another, to represent a form of a breach of contract ' either by private parties or the Government. After retiring from a highly successful executive career in the industrial sector, Peggy has now joined Harry to help him fight his way out of his assorted entanglements. Here in Volume IV, we see how these situations evolved and how they are dealt with in a world gone wild with excessive debt creation and social engineering. Throughout it all, Harry and Peggy manage to find comedy in all this social and financial tragedy by treating the whole mess as though it were a soap opera.




Capital Ideas


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Capital Ideas traces the origins of modern Wall Street, from the pioneering work of early scholars and the development of new theories in risk, valuation, and investment returns, to the actual implementation of these theories in the real world of investment management. Bernstein brings to life a variety of brilliant academics who have contributed to modern investment theory over the years: Louis Bachelier, Harry Markowitz, William Sharpe, Fischer Black, Myron Scholes, Robert Merton, Franco Modigliani, and Merton Miller. Filled with in-depth insights and timeless advice, Capital Ideas reveals how the unique contributions of these talented individuals profoundly changed the practice of investment management as we know it today.




The Partnership


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The inside story of one of the world?s most powerful financial Institutions Now with a new foreword and final chapter, The Partnership chronicles the most important periods in Goldman Sachs?s history and the individuals who built one of the world?s largest investment banks. Charles D. Ellis, who worked as a strategy consultant to Goldman Sachs for more than thirty years, reveals the secrets behind the firm?s continued success through many life-threatening changes. Disgraced and nearly destroyed in 1929, Goldman Sachs limped along as a break-even operation through the Depression and WWII. But with only one special service and one improbable banker, it began the stage-by-stage rise that took the firm to global leadership, even in the face of the world-wide credit crisis.




The Jewelers' Circular


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A Random Walk Down Wall Street


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An informative guide to successful investing, offering a vast array of advice on how investors can tilt the odds in their favour.




Blood Brothers


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Discusses the murders of a rich L.A. businessman and his wife by their two sons, who used a defense of child abuse to obtain a mistrial




The History of Beaminster


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