epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:David Cay Johnston [Johnston, David Cay]

Banks need, of course, to collect enough from customers to justify staying in business and earn a profit. In the long run, only healthy banks can supply the rivers of ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:Nicholas D. Kristof,Sheryl WuDunn [Kristof, Nicholas D.]

Mullaney intrigued us because he seemed so successful at the art of emotionally connecting Americans to distant suffering—a challenge that frustrated and eluded us. During the genocide in Darfur, Nick ...

mobi |eng | 2012-04-16 | Author:Robert B. Reich

Whom Is the Economy for, Anyway? All of this raises the basic question of whom the economy is for. Surely it’s not just for a few Wall Street executives and ...

mobi |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Ken Auletta [Auletta, Ken]

CHAPTER 12 Nerds in the Bunker BEFORE THEY PRESENTED their witnesses, Microsoft was certain that they would incontrovertibly prove their facts. Afterward, the company’s leadership was furiously mad—mad at Boies, ...

mobi |eng | 2011-11-26 | Author:Andy Hertzfeld [Hertzfeld, Andy]

Steve Icon February 1983 Having your own icon becomes a status symbol In February 1983, I started working on an icon editor that Susan Kare could use to create icons ...

epub |eng | | Author:David Stockman [Stockman, David A.]

CHAPTER 18 THE GREAT DEFORMATION OF CAPITAL MARKETS How Wall Street Got Huge THE COLLAPSE OF THREE SEPARATE $5 TRILLION FINANCIAL BUBBLES in less than a decade attested to the ...

epub |eng | 2004-09-02 | Author:Andy Hertzfeld

Saving Lives by Andy Hertzfeld in August 1983 We always thought of the Macintosh as a fast computer, since its 68000 microprocessor was effectively 10 times faster than an Apple ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-01 | Author:Calomiris, Charles W., Haber, Stephen H.

Centralized Banking in a Centralized Federation These characteristics of the Canadian political system had far-reaching implications for banking legislation. In the United States, bank chartering was dominated by fragmented state-level ...

epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Perkins & Brian Emerson [Perkins, John & Emerson, Brian]

130 Part IN: 1975-1981 The Deceptive Resume While I was in Colombia, word arrived that Jake Dauber had retired as MAIN'S president. As expected, chairman and CEO Mac Hall appointed ...

epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:John Cassidy [Cassidy, John]

In 1977–1978, Kahneman and Tversky spent the academic year at Stanford, where they became friends and collaborators with Richard Thaler, a young economist who had done his Ph.D. at Rochester, ...

epub |zho | 2010-06-22 | Author:Anatole Kaletsky [Kaletsky, Anatole]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN What—Me Worry? Bull markets climb a wall of worry. Bear markets slide down a slope of hope. —A venerable investment adage THE MAIN RISKS to the world economy ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-18 | Author:Donald Miller

The publishing company I work with is in Nashville, so I found myself there recently sitting with a group of publishers who looked confusingly at me when I told them ...

epub |eng | 2006-08-28 | Author:Robert Young Pelton

The Cut Saturday begins with a downpour. The sun has not yet risen when the men begin trickling down to the breakfast area. They sit together in clusters, trying to ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-30 | Author:Hyman, Mark [Hyman, Mark]

Unfortunately, this is a story repeated over and over in our society. We live in a sea of toxins—6 million pounds of mercury emissions a year, and 2.5 billion pounds ...

epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Heuer, Richards J. & Pherson, Randolph H. [Heuer, Richards J. & Pherson, Randolph H.]

Overview of Techniques Key Assumptions Check is one of the most important and frequently used techniques. Analytic judgment is always based on a combination of evidence and assumptions, or preconceptions, ...