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Accounting for Murderby Emma LathenISBN 157283000X (1-57283-000-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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After the New Economyby Doug HenwoodISBN 1565849833 (1-56584-983-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Age Shock and Pension Power: How Finance Is Failing Usby Robin BlackburnISBN 1844670139 (1-84467-013-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Age Shock and Pension Power: How Finance Is Failing Us'Book summary:A searing look at the fiscal crisis of an aging society, with radical new proposals.
The last few years have shown how badly the financial services industry performs as a custodian of savings and pension funds. The "skimming" of US mutual funds, the see-saw of the stock markets and a string of business scandals from Enron to Parmalat have wiped billions from the savings of employees on both sides of the Atlantic. They have also exposed the absence of responsibility at the heart of what Robin Blackburn calls 'grey capitalism.'
Here, Blackburn takes forward the argument of his acclaimed Banking on Death and explains why attempts to meet the costs of the ageing society through a proliferation of financial products are doomed to fail and have a host of unfortunate side-effects. In fact, 'financial engineering,' as it is called, has enabled corporations to escape taxation while allowing a new breed of chief executive to accumulate extravagant fortunes at the expense of shareholder and employee alike.
The author does not just expose problems, however; he also explores solutions. Blackburn identifies new sources of pension financeespecially ways of ensuring that corporations make a real contributionand sketches the shape of a progressive and responsible pension fund regime, embracing all citizens and accountable to them.
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American Psychoby Bret Easton EllisISBN 8495501473 (84-95501-47-3)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Psycho'Book summary:Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.
Blurb in Spanish: Mucho se ha hablado de American Psycho. Y lo cierto es que había razón para tanta polémica, pues esta novela de Bret Easton Ellis constituye una de las críticas más feroces que un escritor norteamericano ha hecho a su propio país: una sociedad autocomplaciente y orgullosa de si misma. Para su denuncia, el autor ha escogido un camino arriesgado: Patrick Bateman, el protagonista, no es un rebelde ni un paria; Patrick es un joven de éxito que, sin embargo, también es capaz de violar, torturar y asesinar. Como dijo Fay Weldom, American Psycho es de alguna forma el oscuro complemento de La hoguera de las vanidades, por cuanto descubre aquellos puntos negros de la vida de los supuestos triunfadores que la novela de Tom Wolfe quiso obviar. [via]
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Australia's First Bank: Fifty Years from the Wales to Westpacby L. Sharon DavidsonISBN 0868407917 (0-86840-791-7)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Banker to the Poor : The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, Founder of the Grameen Bankby Muhammad Yunus, Alan JolisISBN 1854106643 (1-85410-664-3)
Softcover, Aurum Press, Limited
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Hardcover, Oxford University Press - Banker to the Poor : The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, Founder of the Grameen Bank: ISBN 1854106643 (1-85410-664-3)
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Povertyby Alan Jolis, Muhammad YunusISBN 1891620118 (1-891620-11-8)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty'Book summary:It began with a simple $27 loan. After witnessing the cycle of poverty that kept many poor women enslaved to high-interest loan sharks in Bangladesh, Dr. Muhammad Yunus lent money to 42 women so they could purchase bamboo to make and sell stools. In a short time, the women were able to repay the loans while continuing to support themselves and their families. With that initial eye-opening success, the seeds of the Grameen Bank, and the concept of microcredit, were planted.
After earning a Ph.D. in economics at Vanderbilt University, Dr. Yunus returned to Bangladesh to settle into a life as a professor. But a famine in 1974 ravaged the country, leading Dr. Yunus to alter his thinking and his life profoundly: "What good were all my complex theories when people were dying of starvation on the sidewalks and porches across from my lecture hall?.... Nothing in the economic theories I taught reflected the life around me." Armed with little more than a lofty dream to end the suffering around him, he started an experimental microcredit enterprise in 1977; by 1983 the Grameen Bank was officially formed.
The idea behind the Grameen Bank is ingeniously simple: extend credit to poor people and they will help themselves. This concept strikes at the root of poverty by specifically targeting the poorest of the poor, providing small loans (usually less than $300) to those unable to obtain credit from traditional banks. At Grameen, loans are administered to groups of five people, with only two receiving their money up front. As soon as these two make a few regular payments, loans are gradually extended to the rest of the group. In this way, the program builds a sense of community as well as individual self-reliance. Most of the Grameen Bank's loans are to women, and since its inception, there has been an astonishing loan repayment rate of over 98 percent.
Banker to the Poor is an inspiring memoir of the birth of microcredit, written in a conversational tone that makes it both moving and enjoyable to read. The Grameen Bank is now a $2.5 billion banking enterprise in Bangladesh, while the microcredit model has spread to over 50 countries worldwide, from the U.S. to Papua New Guinea, Norway to Nepal. Ever optimistic, Yunus travels the globe spreading the belief that poverty can be eliminated: "...the poor, once economically empowered, are the most determined fighters in the battle to solve the population problem; end illiteracy; and live healthier, better lives. When policy makers finally realize that the poor are their partners, rather than bystanders or enemies, we will progress much faster that we do today." Dr. Yunus's efforts prove that hope is a global currency. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Povertyby Muhammad YunusISBN 1586481983 (1-58648-198-3)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty'Book summary:Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Grameen Bank, based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, now provides over 2.5 billion dollars of micro-loans to more than two million families in rural Bangladesh. Ninety-four percent of Yunus's clients are women, and repayment rates are near 100 percent. Around the world, micro-lending programs inspired by Grameen are blossoming, with more than three hundred programs established in the United States alone.[via]
Banker to the Poor is Muhammad Yunus's memoir of how he decided to change his life in order to help the world's poor. In it he traces the intellectual and spiritual journey that led him to fundamentally rethink the economic relationship between rich and poor, and the challenges he and his colleagues faced in founding Grameen. He also provides wise, hopeful guidance for anyone who would like to join him in "putting homelessness and destitution in a museum so that one day our children will visit it and ask how we could have allowed such a terrible thing to go on for so long." The definitive history of micro-credit direct from the man that conceived of it, Banker to the Poor is necessary and inspirational reading for anyone interested in economics, public policy, philanthropy, social history, and business.
Muhammad Yunus was born in Bangladesh and earned his Ph.D. in economics in the United States at Vanderbilt University, where he was deeply influenced by the civil rights movement. He still lives in Bangladesh, and travels widely around the world on behalf of Grameen Bank and the concept of micro-credit.More editions of Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty:
The Bankersby Martin MayerISBN 0345295692 (0-345-29569-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Banking and Insurance in the New China: Competition and the Challenge of Accession to the Wtoby Hui-Tzu Shih, Jianxun Chen, Huici ShiISBN 1843764806 (1-84376-480-6)
Hardcover, Edward Elgar Pub
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Banking on Deathby Emma LathenISBN 1883402069 (1-883402-06-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Banking on Death: Or, Investing in Life The History and Future of Pensionsby Robin BlackburnISBN 185984409X (1-85984-409-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Banking Reforms and Monetary Policy in the People's Republic of China: Is the Chinese Central Banking System Ready for Joining the Wtoby Yong GuoISBN 1403900787 (1-4039-0078-7)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Belly Up: The Collapse of the Penn Square Bankby Phillip ZweigISBN 0449902056 (0-449-90205-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Beyond the Frontiers of Indonesian Banking and Financeby Soeksmono Besar Martokoesoemo, Institut Bankir IndonesiaISBN 9798276671 (979-8276-67-1)
Hardcover, Institut Bankir Indonesia
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By Hook or by Crookby Emma LathenISBN 0671464817 (0-671-46481-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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A Calculated Riskby Katherine NevilleISBN 0345386825 (0-345-38682-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Calculated Risk'Book summary:The author of The Eight returns with the gripping tale of financial shenanigans wielded by a senior woman officer of the Bank of the World who sets out to test the security system and ends up stealing millions. 100,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. [via]
The Case Against the Fedby Murray N. RothbardISBN 094546617X (0-945466-17-X)
Softcover, Ludwig Von Mises Inst
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Chartered for Progress: Two Centuries of American Banking a Pictorial Essayby Elvira E. Clain-Stefanelli, Vladimir Clain-StefanelliISBN 0874910323 (0-87491-032-3)
Hardcover, Acropolis Books
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Contemporary Economicsby Milton H. SpencerISBN 0879010622 (0-87901-062-2)
Hardcover, Worth Publishers
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The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserveby Edward GriffinISBN 0912986395 (0-912986-39-5)
Softcover, Amer Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve'Book summary:Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magicians' secrets are unveiled. We get a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, their pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A dry and boring subject? Just wait! You'll be hooked in five minutes. Reads like a detective story which it really is. But it's all true. This book is about the most blatant scam of all history. It's all here: the cause of wars, boom-bust cycles, inflation, depression, prosperity. Creature from Jekyll Island will change the way you view the world, politics, and money. Your world view will definitely change. You'll never trust a politician again or a banker. [via]
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Development of Two Bank Groups in the Central Northwest: A Study in Bank Policy and Organizationby Charles S. PoppleISBN 0890200041 (0-89020-004-1)
Hardcover, Crofton Pub Corp
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Dictionary of Banking Termsby Thomas FitchISBN 0764112600 (0-7641-1260-0)
Softcover, Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dictionary of Banking Terms'Book summary:More than 3,000 terms are defined in this newly updated edition as they relate to banking, banking practices, laws, and regulations. Barron's Business Dictionaries are useful reference sources for business students as well as the general reader who is seeking advice and information on business matters. [via]
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Double, Double, Oil and Troubleby Emma LathenISBN 0671242156 (0-671-24215-6)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Marketsby Frederic S. MishkinISBN 0673524671 (0-673-52467-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets'Book summary:This market-leading text provides the most authoritative, applications-rich coverage of key concepts, models, and issues in money and banking. Frederic Mishkin previously held the post as Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His writing style, latest research, and discussion of policy issues keep his text as the forefront of money and banking. The 7th edition update comprehensively brings the data in the text, figures, tables and boxes up to date through early 2005. [via]
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Hardcover, Addison-Wesley - The Economics Of Money, Banking, And Financial Markets: ISBN 0321357949 (0-321-35794-9)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley - The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets: ISBN 0673521419 (0-673-52141-9)
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The Enchanted World: Inflation, Credit and the World Crisisby Alain LipietzISBN 0860918068 (0-86091-806-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Failure of Wall Street: How and Why Wall Street Fails- and What Can Be Done About Itby Erik BanksISBN 1403964025 (1-4039-6402-5)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Fringe Banking: Check-Cashing Outlets, Pawnshops and the Poorby John P. CaskeyISBN 0871541807 (0-87154-180-7)
Softcover, Russell Sage Foundation
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Funding Evil: How Terrorism Is Financed and How to Stop Itby Rachel EhrenfeldISBN 1566251966 (1-56625-196-6)
Hardcover, Bonus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Funding Evil: How Terrorism Is Financed and How to Stop It'Book summary:The tentacles of terrorism have reached deep into America, threatening to make Osama bin Ladens dream of destroying the American economy a reality. As the United States spends billions upon billions more towards trying to fend off another 9/11-type attack, terrorist groups grow wealthier, and thus more capable of financing large-scale missions of murder and mayhem
Funding Evil, by terrorism expert Rachel Ehrenfeld Ph.D, uncovers the clandestine and sinister ways that Islamic terrorist groups finance their global network. From innocent-looking American businesses that serve as fronts for terrorism to joint efforts with established groups in organized crime, terrorists have grown increasingly savvy in ways to bolster their financial power. Dr. Ehrenfelds investigation also details how these undetected billions are spent to methodically bring about chaos and destabilization in American society. [via]
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George Bush: The Unauthorized Biographyby Anton Chaitkin, Webster Griffin TarpleyISBN 0930852923 (0-930852-92-3)
Softcover, Progressive Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography'Book summary:This is the groundbreaking classic expose of the Bush family, cited by all that followed it, yet still unmatched. Exhaustively documented by intensive search of dozens of archives and months of interviews with government insiders, this biography digs up all the dirt - frightening, gory, hilarious - on the Bush dynasty: how the Bushes made their fortune building up Hitler and the Nazi war machine; Iran-Contra; Zapata's Watergate burglars; the Reagan shooting; the 'war hero' story; the secret government; 'Eugenic' population reduction plans; Kissinger, China, and genocide in the Third World; Luring Iraq to attack Kuwait; The Bush Leveraged Buyout Mob, theft of a nation; Jupiter Island, Skull and Bones, and other power bases. Essential reading as long as this Anglo-American oligarchy directs American politics, the "Unauthorised Biography" is a vivid X-ray of the presidential dynasty, and the private forces dominating both major political parties. [via]
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Global Finance at Risk: The Case for International Regulationby John Eatwell, Lance TaylorISBN 1565845633 (1-56584-563-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industryby Martin MayerISBN 0020126204 (0-02-012620-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Handbook Of International Bankingby A. W. Mullineux, Victor MurindeISBN 1840640936 (1-84064-093-6)
Hardcover, Edward Elgar Pub
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A History of Precious Metalsby Alexander Del MarISBN 0678004757 (0-678-00475-7)
Hardcover, A. M. Kelley
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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Financeby Ron ChernowISBN 0802138292 (0-8021-3829-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance'Book summary:The winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty. Acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal as "brilliantly researched and written," the book tells the rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned. It is the definitive account of the rise of the modern financial world. A gripping history of banking and the booms and busts that shaped the world on both sides of the Atlantic, The House of Morgan traces the trajectory of the J. P. Morgan empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987. Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the private saga of the Morgans and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved. Based on extensive interviews and access to the family and business archives, The House of Morgan is an investigative masterpiece, a compelling account of a remarkable institution and the men who ran it, and an essential book for understanding the money and power behind the major historical events of the last 150 years.[via]More editions of The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance:
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The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848by Niall FergusonISBN 0140240845 (0-14-024084-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848'Book summary:Founded in the late 18th century by expatriate German Jews, the London-based House of Rothschild was within decades the largest banking enterprise in the world. Its principals controlled a vast portion of the industrial world's wealth--more so, Oxford historian Niall Ferguson writes, than any family has since--and as a result enjoyed tremendous political influence in the major capitals of Europe, counting as allies such important figures as Metternich and Wellington. That influence would provoke countless anti-Semitic tracts fulminating against Jewish usury and against the power of "Eastern potentates" in the empires of England and France. Although the Rothschilds were well aware of their power and not reluctant to use it, they operated fairly, Ferguson notes. For example, whereas lending rates in the textile industry, in which the Rothschilds got their start, were often 20 percent, the fledgling house charged 5 to 9 percent. Through shrewd, complex negotiations they helped promote peace and the beginnings of economic union throughout Europe.
Ferguson's sprawling history covers much ground and involves a cast of hundreds of players. At the outset he notes that his book was commissioned by the modern descendants of the House of Rothschild; even so, he approaches his task with careful balance and a critical eye, pointing out the Rothschilds' failings as well as successes. The result is a fine, solid contribution to economic history, one that, unlike so many books in the field, is eminently readable. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The House of Rothschild Vol. 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848by Niall FergusonISBN 0670857688 (0-670-85768-8)
Hardcover, Southgate Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Rothschild Vol. 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848'Book summary:The first historian with access to the long-lost Rothschild archive, bestselling author Niall Ferguson offers a myth-breaking in-depth portrait fo one of the most fascinating and powerful families in Europe. Hidden for nearly fifty yers in the KGB's special archive, the uncovered records cast new light on the banking family's rise to preeminence. With the help of Hebrew scholar Mordecai Zucker, The House of Rothschild also reflects the first major translation of important and revealing intra-family correspondence in the Judendeutch dialect. In a vast undertaking, Ferguson has synthesized material from over 20 different archives and 20,000 letters, as well as other historical sources, and produced an exceptional--and readable history. Ferguson follows the founders' five sons in their rise to power as pioneers of modern business communication, creators of the international bond market, and the financial force behind many political events of the time. A family saga as well, Ferguson reveals the true nature of the family's relations with one another and with most of the important politicians and monarchs of the time, as well as their profound connection to the Jewish community. A major book, The House of Rothschild is the definitive account of one of the most important firms--and one of the most exceptional families--in modern history. [via]
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How Much Is That in Real Money?: A Historical Commodity Price Index for Use As a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United Statesby John J. McCuskerISBN 1929545010 (1-929545-01-0)
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How Much Is That in Real Money?: A Historical Price Index for Use As a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United Statesby John J. McCuskerISBN 0944026338 (0-944026-33-8)
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In Reserve: Central Banking in Australia, 1945-75by C.B. SchedvinISBN 186373371X (1-86373-371-X)
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Inside Investment Bankingby Ernest BlochISBN 1556231288 (1-55623-128-8)
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Liar's Pokerby Michael LewisISBN 0393027503 (0-393-02750-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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In this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) he rose in two short years from Salomon Brothers trainee to Geek (the lowest form of life on the trading floor) to Big Swinging Dick, the most dangerous beast in the jungle, a bond salesman who could turn over millions of dollars' worth of doubtful bonds with just one call.
With the eye and ear of a born storyteller, Michael Lewis shows us how things really worked on Wall Street. In the Salomon training program a roomful of aspirants is stunned speechless by the vitriolic profanity of the Human Piranha; out on the trading floor, bond traders throw telephones at the heads of underlings and Salomon chairman Gutfreund challenges his chief trader to a hand of liar's poker for one million dollars; around the world in London, Tokyo, and New York, bright young men like Michael Lewis, connected by telephones and computer terminals, swap gross jokes and find retail buyers for the staggering debt of individual companies or whole countries.
The bond traders, wearing greed and ambition and badges of honor, might well have swaggered straight from the pages of Bonfire of the Vanities. But for all their outrageous behavior, they were in fact presiding over enormous changes in the world economy. Lewis's job, simply described, was to transfer money, in the form of bonds, from those outside America who saved to those inside America who consumed. In doing so, he generated tens of millions of dollars for Salomon Brothers, and earned for himself a ringside seat on the greatest financial spectacle of the decade: the leveraging of America. [via]More editions of Liar's Poker:
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Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Streetby Michael LewisISBN 0140143459 (0-14-014345-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Liars Poker Rising Through the Wreckage/International Editionby Michael LewisISBN 0140143440 (0-14-014344-0)
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Market Wizards: Interviews With Top Tradersby Jack SchwagerISBN 1592802974 (1-59280-297-4)
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Q & A with Jack D. Schwager, author of Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders
More than twenty years have passed since the first edition of this book was released. Is it as relevant today as it was then?
Absolutely. Markets may change and the specific techniques or systems that work best may change, but the underlying core principles that lead to trading success stay the same. And there is a good reason for that. Through all periods, market price moves reflect some combination of underlying fundamentals and human behavior. Since human nature doesn't change, the market's basic behavioral patterns don't change either. I believe that every conclusion I reached about the factors important to trading success in the first edition remains equally valid today. Perhaps the best testament to the continued relevance of Market Wizards in today's markets is that so many of the managers I meet who read the original edition early in their careers make it required reading for new traders in their organization.
Has trading fundamentally changed with the rise of the quants and algorithmic traders?
The growing role of algorithmic trading may have eliminated some market inefficiencies as sources of profitable strategies, and it may even have impacted the efficacy of some trading systems, but I don't believe it has changed fundamental market behavior. The same basic concepts that are critical to trading success remain as valid now as they were a generation ago when computerized trading was in its infancy.
What are these basic concepts?
Well that's what this book is all about. But to offer one example, I believe that developing a trading methodology that fits your personality, as opposed to seeking someone else's approach, is an absolutely critical element to succeeding as a trader.
Why do most traders fail?
There are many reasons. They seek easy answers. They listen to "experts" and chase trading fads instead of doing the hard work of developing their own methodology. They focus almost all their energy on determining trade entry points and all but ignore the more critical questions of trade exit and risk management. They listen to other people. These are a few of the reasons. Readers will find a lot more in the book.
Which trader interview in the book has been the most popular?
Readers will often tell me that a certain chapter was their favorite and by far the most important in improving their own trading. The interesting thing is that they always seem to mention a different trader. There is no consensus. Different readers will find different things in the book important. They will relate to different traders. It all goes back to the importance of finding your own approach in the market.
Have the interviews you did for Market Wizards been important to your own trading?
The interview and writing process has helped solidify in my own mind the principles that are important to trading success. At times, it has also had a very specific influence. A great example occurred last summer. At the time, the stock market was approaching the high end of a long-term trading range, and for a variety of reasons, I expected the rally to fail and was positioned on the short side of stock index futures. Then the government released an extremely bearish employment report. It was so negative that commentators couldn't even cite one offsetting bullish consideration, as they usually do. The market initially sold off sharply in response--"perfect," I thought of my trade--but by the end of the day, it nearly recovered the entire loss, ending the week near the recent high. From the perspective of a short, this was terrible price action. I thought I was in trouble. I was prepared to cover most of my position when the market opened on Sunday night. On Sunday night, however, the market opened lower. I immediately thought of Marty Schwartz's advice in this book: "If you're very nervous about a position overnight, and especially over the weekend, and you're able to get out at a much better price than you thought when the market trades, you're usually better off staying with the position." I did, and Schwartz's insight saved me a lot of money, as the market proceeded to move sharply lower in the ensuing weeks.
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Money & Banking in Maryland: A Brief History of Commercial Banking in the Old Line State/ a Catalogue of Maryland's Paper Money 1790-1865by Stuart Bruchey, Thomas S. Gordon, Eleanor S. Bruchey, Denwood N. Kelly, Armand M. ShankISBN 0938420526 (0-938420-52-6)
Hardcover, Maryland Historical Society
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Morgan: American Financierby Jean StrouseISBN 0060955899 (0-06-095589-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Morgan: American Financier'Book summary:As Americans cope with the social and industrial changes wrought by the computer age, we seem ready to view with more sympathy the men who shaped the similarly disruptive economic revolution at the turn of the last century. Less than a year after Titan, Ron Chernow's sweeping biography of capitalist par excellence John D. Rockefeller, comes Jean Strouse's searching analysis of J.P. Morgan (1837-1913), the merchant banker whose financial prowess enabled the great American businesses to grow and thrive. Like Chernow, Strouse takes a nuanced view of a man reviled by his contemporaries as a sinister monopolist. Morgan sought to stabilize the volatile American economy and raise the cash needed to fuel its meteoric expansion. His methods were controversial, particularly his fondness for industrial "combinations" that dampened competition, but Strouse's lucid résumé of the historical backdrop illuminates the thinking behind Morgan's actions. As in her groundbreaking biography Alice James, the author never settles for received wisdom, instead reading previously neglected documents with a sharp eye to offer a fresh interpretation. She vividly limns Morgan's imperious personality and such extracurricular interests as his superb art collection. But it's Strouse's ability to clearly convey complex financial material that distinguishes this book. Her chapter on the panic of 1907, which Morgan was instrumental in halting, is as exciting as a good thriller and far more instructive. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Naked Among Cannibals: What Really Happens Inside Australian Banksby Graham HandISBN 186508431X (1-86508-431-X)
Softcover, Allen & Unwin
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The New Market Wizards: Conversations With America's Top Tradersby Jack D. SchwagerISBN 0887306675 (0-88730-667-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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One of a Kind: The Story of Bankers Trust Australia, 1969-99by Gideon HaighISBN 1876485124 (1-876485-12-4)
Hardcover, Text Publishing
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Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (Cram101 Textbook Outlines)by Cram 101ISBN 142881020X (1-4288-1020-X)
Softcover, Academic Internet Pub Inc
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The Pope, His Banker, and Veniceby Felix GilbertISBN 0674689763 (0-674-68976-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pope, His Banker, and Venice'Book summary:This study of Renaissance adventures and struggles against fate brings to life a brilliant age and its exemplars. It is a story of how several men, including Julius II, worked, intrigued, and made business deals against the backdrop of an Italy invaded by continental countries and England. The future of the once great Republic of Venice was at stake as it was besieged and in desperate need of allies. The Papacy switched sides, breaking the seemingly invincible and mostly foreign League of Cambrai, and saw that Venice was offered a loan by Agostino Chigi, the richest man of his time. The Pope's banker, as daring as Julius II, negotiated with the formidable communal rulers of Venice and Italy was kept from further dismemberment.
As a dramatic account that brings together diplomacy, war, business, and politics, viewed through one long entrepreneurial venture, this book is unique. It juxtaposes differing institutional structures and the various political ways among Italy's city states; it also brings into sharp focus the new men of the Renaissance. Their dealings and lifestyles were original and bold. They were successful against great odds and flaunted their new wealth and position in society in building great palaces and estates and becoming patrons of art. Felix Gilbert is a master teacher of history, and his new work is as luminous as the men and events he tells about.
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Proudhon and His Bank of the Peopleby Charles A. DanaISBN 0882860666 (0-88286-066-6)
Softcover, Charles H Kerr Pub Co
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Quicksilverby Neal StephensonISBN 0060593083 (0-06-059308-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quicksilver'Book summary:In Quicksilver, the first volume of the "Baroque Cycle," Neal Stephenson launches his most ambitious work to date. The novel, divided into three books, opens in 1713 with the ageless Enoch Root seeking Daniel Waterhouse on the campus of what passes for MIT in eighteenth-century Massachusetts. Daniel, Enoch's message conveys, is key to resolving an explosive scientific battle of preeminence between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over the development of calculus. As Daniel returns to London aboard the Minerva, readers are catapulted back half a century to recall his years at Cambridge with young Isaac. Daniel is a perfect historical witness. Privy to Robert Hooke's early drawings of microscope images and with associates among the English nobility, religious radicals, and the Royal Society, he also befriends Samuel Pepys, risks a cup of coffee, and enjoys a lecture on Belgian waffles and cleavage-all before the year 1700.
In the second book, Stephenson introduces Jack Shaftoe and Eliza. "Half-Cocked" Jack (also know as the "King of the Vagabonds") recovers the English Eliza from a Turkish harem. Fleeing the siege of Vienna, the two journey across Europe driven by Eliza's lust for fame, fortune, and nobility. Gradually, their circle intertwines with that of Daniel in the third book of the novel.
The book courses with Stephenson's scholarship but is rarely bogged down in its historical detail. Stephenson is especially impressive in his ability to represent dialogue over the evolving worldview of seventeenth-century scientists and enliven the most abstruse explanation of theory. Though replete with science, the novel is as much about the complex struggles for political ascendancy and the workings of financial markets. Further, the novel's literary ambitions match its physical size. Stephenson narrates through epistolary chapters, fragments of plays and poems, journal entries, maps, drawings, genealogic tables, and copious contemporary epigrams. But, caught in this richness, the prose is occasionally neglected and wants editing. Further, anticipating a cycle, the book does not provide a satisfying conclusion to its 900 pages. These are minor quibbles, though. Stephenson has matched ambition to execution, and his faithful, durable readers will be both entertained and richly rewarded with a practicum in Baroque science, cypher, culture, and politics. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Real U Guide To Bank Accounts And Credit Cardsby Ilyce R. GlinkISBN 0974415944 (0-9744159-4-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Register of the Confederate Debtby United States, Raphael Prosper ThianISBN 0880000023 (0-88000-002-3)
Hardcover, Quarterman Publications
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Retail Banking: Serving the Financial Needs of Consumersby Institute of Financial EducationISBN 0912857609 (0-912857-60-9)
Softcover, Inst of Financial Education
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The Rothschilds: Portrait of a Dynastyby Frederic Morton, Nancy Cooperman SuISBN 156836220X (1-56836-220-X)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rothschilds: Portrait of a Dynasty'Book summary:NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE
Long regarded as the most magical of the European dynasties, the Rothschild family today remains one of the most powerful and wealthy in the world. No family in the past two centuries has been so constantly at the center of Europe's great events, has featured such varied and spectacular personalities, has had anything close to the wealth of the Rothschilds. In Frederic Morton's classic tale, the family is brought vividly to life. Here you'll meet characters as lively as you can imagine: Mayer, long-time advisor to Germany's princes, who broke through the barriers of a Frankfurt ghetto and placed his family on the road to wealth and power; Lord Alfred, who maintained a private train, private orchestra (which he conducted), and private circus (of which he was ringmaster); Baron Philippe, whose rarefied vintages bear labels created by great artists, among them Picasso, Dali, and Haring; and Kathleen Nica Rothschild de Koenigswarter, the "jazz baroness," in whose arms Charlie Parker died. The family itself has been at the center of some of the most crucial moments in history: the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, the development of the Suez Canal, the introduction of Jews in the House of Lords. Through it all, the Rothschild name has continued to represent the family ideal: a shrewd business and financial sense, activity in the Jewish community and the arts, and an always luxurious-and often eccentric-lifestyle.
Nominated for a National Book Award when it was first published in 1962, Frederic Morton's The Rothschllds is here reissued with a new afterword by the author, bringing the tale of this extraordinary family to the present. [via]More editions of The Rothschilds: Portrait of a Dynasty:
Something in the Airby Emma LathenISBN 0896219062 (0-89621-906-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Terror Incorporated: Tracing The Dollars Behind The Terror Networksby Loretta Napoleoni, Greg PalastISBN 1583226737 (1-58322-673-7)
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Napoleoni describes the "New Economy of Terror," "a fast-growing international economic system with a turnover of about $1.5 trillion [that] is challenging Western hegemony." It is made up of illegal businesses such as arms and narcotics trading, and oil and diamond smuggling, as well as charitable donations and legal profits. Napoleoni reveals the interdependency between economies run by armed groups and western economies, and provides a pioneering examination of the system and methods by which international terrorism is financed. [via]More editions of Terror Incorporated: Tracing The Dollars Behind The Terror Networks:
Things Fall Apart: A History of the State Bank of South Australiaby Greg McCarthyISBN 1875606963 (1-875606-96-3)
Hardcover, Australian Scholarly Publishing
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Total Risk: Nick Leeson and the Fall of Barings Bankby Judith H. Rawnsley, Nicholas William LeesonISBN 0887307817 (0-88730-781-7)
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Vault Career Guide to Investment Bankingby Derek Loosvelt, Tom LottISBN 1581313063 (1-58131-306-3)
Softcover, Vault Reports Inc
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Wall Street: How It Works and for Whomby Doug HenwoodISBN 0860916707 (0-86091-670-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Where Eagles Soar: A Brief History of Community Banking in Illinoisby Janice A. Petterchak, Community Bankers Association of IllinoisISBN 0976068303 (0-9760683-0-3)
Hardcover, Community Bankers Association of Illinois
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Who Elected the Bankers: The Political Foundations of Global Marketsby Louis W. PaulyISBN 0801483751 (0-8014-8375-1)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Yihad / Jihadby Loretta NapoleoniISBN 8479535547 (84-7953-554-7)
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American Psycho-Frenchby Bret Easton EllisISBN 2020253801 (2-02-025380-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Psycho-French'Book summary:Patrick Bateman est un jeune homme riche, beau et intelligent. Un golden boy de Wall Street à qui tout réussit. Il est par ailleurs parfaitement au fait des techniques de nettoyage et désincrustage de la peau les plus efficaces, il s'applique les meilleures crèmes pour le visage, ne porte que des vêtements de grands couturiers, utilise les derniers gadgets technologiques et passe ses soirées au Tunnel, la boîte branchée du moment. Bien sûr, tous ses amis sont comme lui.
La seule différence, c'est qu'en plus Patrick Bateman viole, torture et tue. Mais il ne ressent jamais rien. Juste une légère contrariété lorsque ses scénarii ne se déroulent pas exactement comme prévu. À sa sortie en 1991, le roman d'Ellis suscita une vive émotion, aussi bien à cause de ses scènes d'horreur décrites quasi cliniquement que de son principal personnage, Bateman, symbole de la réussite économique, enfant prodige travesti en tueur sadique et immoral. Il faut dire qu'Ellis s'attaque de front à tous les excès de superficialité de l'Occident contemporain : sexe, culte du corps, de la richesse et de la jeunesse. Une entreprise de destruction commencée très tôt avec son premier roman Moins que zéro écrit alors qu'il avait 22 ans et que l'on retrouve dans Glamorama. Bret Easton Ellis ou l'art de mettre de l'acide sur les plaies béantes de la société. --Stellio Paris [via]
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