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The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History by Gregory Zuckerman
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-06-07 | Author:Gregory Zuckerman [Zuckerman, Gregory]

AS GREENE EDUCATED HIMSELF about the mortgage market, he continued to stay in touch with Paulson, e-mailing him insights about the market that he gleaned from conversations with various mortgage ...
( Category: Business June 8,2017 )
On the Brink by Henry M. Paulson
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-31 | Author:Henry M. Paulson, [PAULSON, JR., HENRY M.]

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 Monday, September 15, had been grim. But on Tuesday, all hell broke loose. Normally I left home by 5:45 a.m., went to my gym, and ran ...
( Category: Economic Policy June 7,2017 )
The Einstein of Money by Joe Carlen
epub |eng | | Author:Joe Carlen

Since I always had a somewhat holier-than-thou satisfaction in my own financial rectitude, I set down this transgression with as much wonderment as chagrin. Could I have thought, along with ...
( Category: Business June 3,2017 )
Grave New World by Stephen D. King
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen D. King

BEYOND WINDRUSH Across Europe, different approaches to immigration were adopted after the Second World War. But for the most part, they had a common aim: with millions of working-age men ...
( Category: Globalization May 26,2017 )
The Long Space Age by Alexander MacDonald
epub |eng | 2017-04-30 | Author:Alexander MacDonald [MacDonald, Alexander]

Sources: Goddard, R., The Papers of Robert Goddard, vol. 1 (New York, 1970); see text of chapter 3 for specific source references. PWC-ratio equivalent value and GDP-ratio equivalent value calculations ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 3,2017 )
The Locomotive of War by Peter Clarke
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Clarke

FOURTEEN POINTS OF VIEW Part Two WAR AND PEACE 9 Agenda for the Hall of Mirrors: Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Wilson There was to be no ‘peace without victory’ in 1917. ...
( Category: Economic History April 6,2017 )
The Great Convergence - Information Technology and the New Globalization by Richard Baldwin
epub |eng | 2016-11-13 | Author:Richard Baldwin [Richard Baldwin]

Globalization: Less Controllable The pace of globalization has become much less controllable due to the nature of its driving forces: advanced information technology and better telecommunications. The crux of the ...
( Category: Economics March 22,2017 )
Debunking Economics - Revised and Expanded Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned? by Steve Keen
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Steve Keen [Keen, Steve]

Such an ‘axiom’ is transparently nonsense – something that might have led a sensible person to stop at this point. But instead Lucas immediately moved on to an equivalent way ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 22,2017 )
The Fix by Jonathan Tepperman
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-09-19 | Author:Jonathan Tepperman [Tepperman, Jonathan]

At virtually the same time that Botswana and Singapore were struggling to survive their difficult births, another newborn nation found itself in similar straits. Strictly speaking, Korea wasn’t new, of ...
( Category: Canadian March 22,2017 )
Crude Volatility by Robert McNally
epub |eng | 2017-01-16 | Author:Robert McNally

THE GHOST OF JAKARTA The unexpected price increase in 1996 and 1997 averted a full clash between Venezuela and other OPEC members.9 But later in 1997 the Asian financial crisis ...
( Category: Oil & Energy March 19,2017 )
A Little History of Economics by Niall Kishtainy
epub |eng | | Author:Niall Kishtainy

CHAPTER 22 The Big Push Just before midnight on 6 March 1957, the president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, stood on a podium gazing down on a cheering crowd of his ...
( Category: Economic History March 12,2017 )
Age of Greed by Jeff Madrick
epub |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:Jeff Madrick [Madrick, Jeff]

15 George Soros and John Meriwether FABULOUS WEALTH AND CONTROVERSIAL POWER Until the mid-1980s, the takeover movement was the way to make the most money on Wall Street. Men like ...
( Category: United States March 11,2017 )
The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream by Tyler Cowen
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tyler Cowen [Cowen, Tyler]

6. WHY AMERICANS STOPPED RIOTING AND LEGALIZED MARIJUANA In order to understand how peaceful America has become, we must consider what truly turbulent times looked like. Revisiting the recent past ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 2,2017 )
When America First Met China by Eric Jay Dolin
epub |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Eric Jay Dolin

FOR THE AMERICANS the economic imperative was paramount. After all, the main reason they had come to China was to earn a competency, their golden ticket back to the States. ...
( Category: Trades & Tariffs February 26,2017 )
The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-First Century by Ryan Avent
epub |eng | 2016-09-20 | Author:Ryan Avent [Avent, Ryan]

3 The Digital Economy Goes Wrong 7 Playgrounds of the 1 per cent London is the richest city in Europe. Real output per person in central London is nearly four ...
( Category: Economic Conditions February 26,2017 )

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