azw3, epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-05-28 | Author:Adam Lebor

After the Allied victory, Donald MacLaren, the British intelligence agent who had brought down GAF, IG Farben’s US subsidiary, was sent to Berlin to investigate the chemicals conglomerate. MacLaren wrote ...

mobi |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Janet Gleeson

The Crown of Poland, venal twice an age, To just three millions stinted modest Gage. But in certain Parisian salons the flourishing fortunes of countless overseas investors met with a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2003-03-20 | Author:Michael Lewis

IT WASN’T LONG after a player was traded to Oakland before he realized that his new team ran differently from any of his previous ones, although it generally took him ...

mobi |eng | 2008-09-27 | Author:von Mises, Ludwig

Part Three: Money and Banking Chapter 15. The Business of Banking 1. Types of Banking Activity. 2. The Banks as Negotiators of Credit. 3. The Banks as Issuers of Fiduciary ...

mobi |eng | 2008-09-24 | Author:Bernstein, Peter L. [Bernstein, Peter L.]

However, the description of this process raises an extremely important point that usually receives much too little attention in discussions of how far the commercial banking system can go in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-06 | Author:Palast, Greg [Palast, Greg]

Now, Schwartz stands. Giffen’s mouthpiece is about to earn his $600 an hour. At a dark-wood lectern, tall and dramatic, the attorney says that his client had merely “failed to ...

mobi, epub, azw |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Paul, Ron [Paul, Ron]

We very badly need to have more Representatives in the House who understand in a principled way the importance of property rights and religious freedom for the preservation and extension ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:G. Edward Griffin

Chapter Fifteen THE LOST TREASURE MAP The bitter experience of the American colonies with fiat money; the resolve of the founding fathers to prohibit the new nation from resorting to ...

mobi |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Milton Friedman

New Deal Action for Silver The Democratic platform on which Roosevelt was elected in 1932 pledged a "sound currency to be preserved at all hazards," but it went on to ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-11-01 | Author:Michael Lewis

CHAPTER SIX Spider-Man at The Venetian Golfing with Eisman wasn't like golfing with other Wall Street people. The round usually began with a collective discomfort on the first tee, after ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Simon Johnson & James Kwak

The story of the financial crisis of 2007–2009 has been told many times.10 Policymakers, economists, and commentators have pointed to many causes and contributing factors, ranging from “oversaving” in China ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-04-14 | Author:William D. Cohan

I have provided this information to you because it contradicts the disclosure made to MWRA by Merrill Lynch that its contractual relationship with Lazard Freres & Co. "was not in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-11 | Author:William D. Cohan

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. ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-01-27 | 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. . . . ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:Niall Ferguson

Though primarily conpiracy theorists, writers like Drumont and Chirac were also preoccupied with the Rothschilds’ penetration of French high culture and society. In the second volume of Jewish France, Drumont ...