mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Marc Levinson

Chapter 10 Ports in a Storm The Coastwise Steamship Company had been created to serve the paper industry. Since the 1930s, its ships had picked up rolls of newsprint from ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:John Mcmillan

A noisy demonstration took place in Kansas City in May 1999 over a curious kind of injustice. “Share the wealth,” the protesters’ placards demanded. What had aroused their anger was ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Chrystia Freeland

Bringing this dream to life required the robber barons: “To be made real, it required use of the talents of men of tremendous will, and tremendous ambition, since by no ...

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 |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:David Graeber

The Near West: Islam (Capital as Credit) Prices depend on the will of Allah; it is he who raises and lowers them. —Attributed to the Prophet Mohammed The profit of ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-08 | Author:Chang, Ha-Joon [Chang, Ha-Joon]

Sir Isaac Newton once famously said, ‘if I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants’.42 He was referring to the fact that ideas ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele

Even better for Arison and his family was yet another provision in the SEC public offering document that said: “The company intends to distribute dividends to all shareholders in at ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-03 | Author:Dan Senor; Saul Singer

CHAPTER 9 The Buffett Test For our customers around the world, there was no war. —EITAN WERTHEIMER WE’RE NOT HERE TO STEAL WORKERS FROM MICROSOFT,” said Google’s Yoelle Maarek. “But,” ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-05 | Author:Lanchester, John [Lanchester, John]

FIVE THE MISTAKE And yet the financial industry could still have got away with it. All the things described up until now could have been survived, and the resulting chaos ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-09-08 | Author:Paul Krugman

Argentina isn’t an Asian country. (Duh.) But Argentina had an Asian-style crisis in 2002, one that offered a painfully clear demonstration of how widely praised economic policies can lead a ...

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 | 2011-09-27 | Author:Lewis, Michael [Lewis, Michael]

† Brian Lenihan is also, as Joan Burton pointed out, tricky. It’s racing up on eight in the evening when I meet him in a Department of Finance conference room. ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Luigi Zingales

THE WRONG FIXES One natural political response to this state of affairs is protectionism. Given the economic fundamentals, there has been surprisingly little pressure for that so far. One possible ...

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 | 2010-08-10 | Author:Hazlitt, Henry [Hazlitt, Henry]

1The cotton program has been, however, an especially instructive one. As of August 1, 1956, the cotton carryover mounted to the record figure of 14,529,000 bales, more than a full ...