Economic Conditions
epub |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:Deborah Perry Piscione [Piscione, Deborah Perry]

8THE INVESTORS OF SAND HILL ROAD Highway 280, Exit 24, Menlo Park, California Draper Fisher Jurvetson, otherwise known as DFJ, a venerable venture capital firm in Silicon Valley whose offices ...
( Category: Entrepreneurship March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Thomas Sowell [Sowell, Thomas]

Statistical Trends One of the problems with comparisons of national output over some span of time is the arbitrary choice of the year to use as the beginning of the ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-02 | Author:Douglas Rushkoff [Rushkoff, Douglas]

The Real World Back in the 1960s, the psychologist Stanley Milgram was horrified and inspired by the trial of Adolf Eichmann, who engineered the transport of Jews to Nazi death ...
( Category: Workplace Culture March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Douglas Rushkoff [Rushkoff, Douglas]

Central Currency The economy in which we all participate is no more natural than the game scenarios John Nash set up to test the Rand Corporation’s secretaries. It is a ...
( Category: Workplace Culture March 26,2014 )
epub | | 2009-06-03 | Author:McDonald, G. Lawrence [Lawrence, McDonald, 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: Company Profiles March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:David Hoffman

Chapter 12 The Embrace of Wealth and Power CHARLES RYAN, who delighted in buying a fistful of Menatep Bank shares on a street corner in 1991, became an adviser to ...
( Category: European March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Tim Harford

Hmm. Maybe Ford was trying to get a reputation as a philanthropist? It’s another plausible-sounding theory. He was a rich man, after all, and his five-dollar working day made him ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:Michael Lewis [Lewis, Michael]

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 ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-22 | Author:Mauldin, John & Tepper, Jonathan [Mauldin, John]

The Return of the 1970s We have every reason to believe that central bankers everywhere will be looking in the rearview mirror this time, too, as they struggle to steer ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Lorenzo Fioramonti

CHAPTER 4 Change from below I don’t believe that the solutions in society will come from the left or the right or the north or the south. … This is ...
( Category: Statistics March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Mitch Feierstein [Feierstein, Mitch]

Figure 13.3: The price of gold, 2000–2011 Source: ThomsonReuters. We’re just about done on equity markets. The simple truth, once again, is that the assets promised by a Ponzi scheme ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-06 | Author:Blinder, Alan S.

VARIETIES OF QUANTITATIVE EASING The Fed’s favorite unconventional weapon has been quantitative easing (QE), a term that encompasses a variety of ways to use the central bank’s balance sheet to ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-04 | Author:Joseph E. Stiglitz [Stiglitz, Joseph E.]

The Right’s alternative Europe’s crisis is not an accident, but it’s not caused by excessive long-term debts and deficits or by the “welfare” state. It’s caused by excessive austerity—cutbacks in ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:Lilley, Sasha [Lilley, Sasha]

You argue that in history crises, both precapitalist and capitalist, have been resolved by plunder—by expansion into new frontiers as well as technical innovation—although under capitalism the speed and intensity ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1996-12-31 | Author:Eduardo Galeano [Galeano, Eduardo]

THE BLACK CURSE OF PETROLEUM Along with natural gas, petroleum is today the chief fuel that keeps our world in motion; it is a raw material of rising importance for ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )