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Banker to the Poor by Yunus Muhammad
epub | | 2015-05-21 | Author:Yunus, Muhammad [Yunus, Muhammad]

From the very beginning, Grameen has gone against traditional methods of poverty alleviation by handing out cash without any attempt to first provide skills training. We have received a great ...
( Category: Curricula May 25,2015 )
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Lowenstein Roger
mobi |eng | 2001-01-17 | Author:Lowenstein, Roger [Lowenstein, Roger]

In the first months of 1998, markets were smooth. The International Monetary Fund worked out a bailout of South Korea, capping a stabilizing trend in Asia. In Europe, where the ...
( Category: Free Enterprise April 17,2015 )
The Alchemists by Neil Irwin
epub |eng | 2013-03-08 | Author:Neil Irwin

FOURTEEN The King’s Speech The official name of the gathering is “The Lord Mayor’s Banquet for Bankers and Merchants of the City of London.” Everyone knows it, however, simply as ...
( Category: Banks & Banking April 7,2015 )
God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican by Gerald Posner
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Gerald Posner [Posner, Gerald]

* * * I. In 2001, Del Ponte had worked a genocide investigation against four Rwandans, two of them Catholic priests, one living under a false name in Italy and ...
( Category: Popes & the Vatican March 13,2015 )
Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe
epub |eng | 2009-06-08 | Author:Tett, Gillian [Tett, Gillian]

By mid-2006, the pressure on Bill Winters’s team to make up ground on its rivals was intense. Each year, Oliver Wyman, a consultancy group, conducted an analysis of how all ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 4,2015 )
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Chernow Ron
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:Chernow, Ron [Chernow, Ron]

Two weeks later, Lamont followed this up by meeting with Neville Chamberlain, then chancellor of the Exchequer. It was a vintage Lamont performance—tough resolve beneath suave civility. He said Morgans ...
( Category: State & Local March 3,2015 )
The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets: 1798-1848 by Niall Ferguson
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Niall Ferguson [Ferguson, Niall]

However, when French troops were marching into Belgium to impose terms on the Dutch the following November, it was James’s turn to think twice when the Belgian minister approached him ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 3,2015 )
Crash of the Titans by Greg Farrell
epub |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:Greg Farrell [Farrell, Greg]

LEHMAN WAS NOT SCHEDULED to announce its third-quarter earnings until midmonth, but the loss of confidence in the marketplace forced Fuld and his top managers to rush out their earnings ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 3,2015 )
Chasing Goldman Sachs by Suzanne McGee
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-10 | Author:Suzanne McGee [McGee, Suzanne]

Efforts at Reform? Several Wall Street firms began to tweak their compensation packages in late 2008 in response to the public outrage, introducing the concept of the clawback to investment ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 3,2015 )
Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
epub |eng | 2015-02-19 | Author:Liaquat Ahamed

PART FOUR REAPING ANOTHER WHIRLWIND 1928-33 16. INTO THE VORTEX 1928-29 At particular times a great deal of stupid people have a great deal of stupid money. . . . ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 3,2015 )
Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, Sixth Edition by Kindleberger Charles P. & Aliber Robert Z
epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Kindleberger, Charles P. & Aliber, Robert Z. [Kindleberger, Charles P.]

Four innovations contributed to the surge in property prices and real estate prices in Mexico, Thailand, and other emerging-market countries in the early 1990s. The funding of the overhang of ...
( Category: Economics March 3,2015 )
The Failure of Common Knowledge (LFB) by Douglas E. French
epub |eng | 2013-01-20 | Author:Douglas E. French [French, Douglas E.]

3. DEPRESSION BABIES LEARNED early that “saving for a rainy day” was not something one hopes to do but a requirement. The saying originated when most people worked on the ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 3,2015 )
The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street by Jonathan A. Knee
mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Jonathan A. Knee

·9· CRACKS IN THE FAÇADE Although the beginning of the Internet era is usually dated from the 1995 IPO of Netscape, it did not begin to deeply infect the rest ...
( Category: Economic History February 13,2015 )
A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1 by Allan H. Meltzer
epub |eng | | Author:Allan H. Meltzer

At its March 3 meeting the Federal Reserve Board discussed the growing number of states with bank holidays. Miller advocated the use of clearinghouse certificates, but he opposed any plan ...
( Category: Economic History January 29,2015 )
A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 2 by Allan H. Meltzer
epub |eng | | Author:Allan H. Meltzer

124. Includes reserve position in the International Monetary Fund. Excluding the reserve, the decline was 8.7 percent in 1960. 125. The new administration began planning for the speech before the ...
( Category: Economic History January 29,2015 )

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