Economics
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Rajan, Raghuram G. [Rajan, Raghuram G.]

Assigning Blame The private financial sector bears an enormous responsibility for what happened. But did the brokers act immorally? Clearly, misleading retirees about their payments was wrong and bordered on ...
( Category: Economic Policy September 13,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Werner, Richard

Pillars of Growth Japan’s postwar modification of the war economy was hooked on success. It needed continued high growth in order to remain viable as a system. As we saw, ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching September 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Charles V. Bagli

• • • For MetLife, the results of the Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village transaction could not have been better. The sale sent the company’s share price to a fifty-two-week high ...
( Category: State & Local September 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-23 | Author:Bernstein, Peter L.

Chapter 10 Risky Business Knack, feel, whim, and intuition are . . . useless relics. Markowitz, Tobin, and Sharpe all describe rational investors as masters of their fate. The theories ...
( Category: State & Local September 7,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:Daniel Yergin [Yergin, Daniel]

Gulbenkian Again The CFP litigation was still pending. But France had many other things on its political agenda with the United States that it wanted to pursue; and by May ...
( Category: Middle Eastern September 7,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2004-09-05 | Author:Jane Jacobs [Jacobs, Jane]

CHAPTER SIX Self-Policing Subverted Members of learned professions have traditionally been regarded by themselves and others as capable of responsibly regulating, and even policing, themselves through oversight by bar associations, ...
( Category: Urban September 6,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2000-09-05 | Author:Jane Jacobs [Jacobs, Jane]

Chapter 6 THE DOUBLE NATURE OF FITNESS FOR SURVIVAL “Now what?” asked Armbruster. “Should we continue without Murray, or should we take a recess?” “Kate mentioned that she had something ...
( Category: Economic Conditions September 6,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter J. Wallison [Wallison, Peter J.]

Adapted from: Fannie Mae, “2007 Housing Goal Plan,” provided to FCIC and numbered FM-FCIC_0172982, p. 8. aCost analysis for “base” My Community Mortgage enhancement—not layered. From this report, it is ...
( Category: Banks & Banking September 2,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-04-21 | Author:William J. O'Neil

John Wooden, the great UCLA basketball coach, used to tell his players, “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” Well, one know-it-all investor wrote and told ...
( Category: Introduction August 24,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2001-03-23 | Author:William J. Bernstein

Investment Newsletters OK, so human beings cannot pick stocks. Perhaps a more fruitful approach would be to time the market and avoid losses by pulling out of stocks during the ...
( Category: Economics August 24,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-02 | Author:Robert Frank

In 2006 Eric Roth got an unusual request. The head of International Jet Interiors, a New Jersey–based company that outfits private-jet cabins, got a call from a client who had ...
( Category: Economics August 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-31 | Author:Robert Higgs [Higgs, Robert]

CONCLUSION Private developers are making significant efforts to protect environmental resources that add to the net collective value of the community. These efforts are simply profit-maximizing behavior by developers responding ...
( Category: Social Policy August 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-11 | Author:Barragan, Yesenia [Barragan, Yesenia]

And there it is. For a moment, we can see Rosalia’s coarse black hands running through a pile of soggy dirt, gray rocks, pebbles, combing her wooden pan in search ...
( Category: Specific Topics August 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 1998-08-16 | Author:Richard Sennett

THIS ELEMENTAL STORY, however, might have a different coloring in a different society. The sociological dimension of Rose’s exposure to risk lies in how institutions shape an individual’s efforts to ...
( Category: Specific Topics August 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Peter Huber [Huber, Peter]

( Category: Economics August 16,2015 )