Economics
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Bernstein, William J. [Bernstein, William J.]

The VOC quickly recognized that if it was to monopolize the spice trade, the Bandanese would have to go. And go they did, with a brutality and efficiency that would ...
( Category: Economics April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-12 | Author:Cohan, William D. [Cohan, William D.]

CHAPTER 15 $10 BILLION OR BUST From the outset, Corzine and Paulson had to figure out ways to apply tourniquets to the blood rushing out of the Goldman Sachs corpus. ...
( Category: Economics April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1955-01-01 | Author:Bernstein, William [Bernstein, William]

THE TORCH IS PASSED James was a rabid Catholic, but the opposing Dissenters and parliamentarians were not alarmed by his religious beliefs. James was past fifty years old when he ...
( Category: Economics April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Bernstein, Peter L. [Bernstein, Peter L.]

Lord Lansdown was right: the fall was slow and gradual, but inflation ultimately took hold in Britain. Prices in 1802 were lower than they had been in 1800, but they ...
( Category: Finance April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Ferguson, Charles [Ferguson, Charles]

In the Service of Rogue States and Drug Lords TAX EVASION IS not the only motive for bank secrecy, money laundering, and asset concealment.17 Kleptocratic political leaders, organized criminals, drug ...
( Category: Economics April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-07 | Author:Farmer, Roger E. A. [Farmer, Roger E. A.]

102 H O W T H E E C O N O M Y W O R K S Search time of unemployed workers Job Search time of recruiters FIGURE ...
( Category: Economics April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-16 | Author:McLean, Bethany [McLean, Bethany]

The blind spot was AIG-FP’s credit default swap business. Ever since that original BISTRO deal with J.P. Morgan, FP had created a profitable niche by taking on the risk of ...
( Category: Economics April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-27 | Author:Bartels, Larry M. [Bartels, Larry M.]

Separate analyses by income class indicate that the effect of respondents’ own perceived tax burdens was about equally powerful among upper-and middle-income people. However, people whose incomes put them in ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Chomsky, Noam [Chomsky, Noam]

¶¶ Colin Asher, “Occupy Wall St. in NYC—The Week That Was,” The Progressive, October 16, 2011. http://www.progressive.org/occupy_wall_street_week.html *** Noam Chomsky, “The State-Corporate Complex: A Threat to Freedom and Survival,” lecture ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1776-01-01 | Author:Smith [Smith]

ARTICLE II Of the Expence of the Institutions for the Education of Youth THE institutions for the education of the youth may, in the same Institutions for education may also ...
( Category: Economics April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-21 | Author:McDonald, Lawrence G. [McDonald, Lawrence G.]

8 The Mortgage Bonanza Blows Out These were people who, in the five thousand years of recorded human house construction, never would have been granted a mortgage to purchase even ...
( Category: Biography & History April 26,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Chernow, Ron [Chernow, Ron]

CHAPTER 21 The Enthusiast When Rockefeller receded from the business world in the mid-1890s, the average American was earning less than ten dollars per week. Rockefeller’s average income—a stupefying $10 ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-01 | Author:Tavakoli, Janet M. [Tavakoli, Janet M.]

Ralph Cioffi left Bear Stearns by mutual agreement on November 28, 2007, at the age of 51. His compensation reportedly soared to eight figures during his BSAM days. The less-leveraged ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Ferguson, Niall [Ferguson, Niall]

9.ii: “J.W.W.,” PLUCKING THE GOOSE OR BELGIUM SUPPORTED BY HER FRIENDS AND ALLIES (1831). Anselm for one feared that it would “prove a bad concern, as I do not think ...
( Category: Economics April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:Lynch, Peter & Rothchild, John [Lynch, Peter & Rothchild, John]

BEWARE THE MIDDLEMAN The company that sells 25 to 50 percent of its wares to a single customer is in a precarious situation. SCI Systems (not to be confused with ...
( Category: Investing April 26,2018 )