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Author : Arthur D. Cashin
Release : 1999-01-01
Genre : New York (N.Y.)
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Book Rating : 392/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A View of Wall Street from the Seventh Floor by : Arthur D. Cashin
Download or read book A View of Wall Street from the Seventh Floor written by Arthur D. Cashin. This book was released on 1999-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Noam Chomsky
Release : 1987-09-12
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 736/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Chomsky Reader by : Noam Chomsky
Download or read book The Chomsky Reader written by Noam Chomsky. This book was released on 1987-09-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chomsky Reader brings together for the first time the political thought of American's leading dissident intellectual—“arguably the most important intellectual alive” (The New York Times). At the center of practically every major debate over America's role in the world, one finds Noam Chomsky's ideas—sometimes attacked, sometimes studiously ignored, but always a powerful presence. Drawing from his published and unpublished work, The Chomsky Reader reveals the awesome range of this ever-critical mind—from global questions of war and peace to the most intricate questions of human intelligence, IQ, and creativity. It reveals the underlying radical coherency of his view of the world—from his enormously influential attacks on America's role in Vietnam to his perspective on Nicaragua and Central America today. Chomsky's challenge to accepted wisdom about Israel and the Palestinians has caused a furor in America, as have his trenchant essays on the real nature of terrorism in our age. No one has dissected more graphically the character of the Cold War consensus and the way it benefits the two superpowers, or argued more thoughtfully for a shared elitist ethos in liberalism and communism. No one has exposed more logically America's acclaimed freedoms as masking irresponsible power and unjustified privilege, or argued quite so insistently that the “free press” is part of a stultifying conformity that pervades all aspects of American intellectual life. In a lengthy interview with the editor, Chomsky discussed his thought in the context of his personal history.
Author : Janelle McCulloch
Release : 2008
Genre : Architecture
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 262/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis View from the Top by : Janelle McCulloch
Download or read book View from the Top written by Janelle McCulloch. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back by popular demand, this second book in the series features 50 more luxurious penthouses, funky lofts, sleek bachelor pads and sumptuous family homes.
Author : Alexandra Ouroussoff
Release : 2013-05-08
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 695/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Wall Street at War by : Alexandra Ouroussoff
Download or read book Wall Street at War written by Alexandra Ouroussoff. This book was released on 2013-05-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the problems that lie at the heart of the current financial crisis stem from a significant but little-known development that occurred in the early 1980s: investors changed their investment criteria. This change gave rise to a conflict - a silent war - between executives in charge of the world's largest corporations, on the one hand, and credit agencies whose task it is to enforce the criteria on investors' behalf, on the other. The credit agencies that flourished in New York, London and elsewhere acquired a great deal of power because their ratings now reflected investors new priorities, and so controlled the ability of corporations to gain access to capital. The rise of the credit agencies thereby also represented a new model of capitalism, quite different from the old model of the risk-taking entrepreneur. To attract investment capital, corporations now have to employ enormous resources to create the illusion that capital is directed in line with the new expectations imposed by the credit agencies. The result is that devious reporting on companies' activities has become endemic. Drawing on more than six years of fieldwork carried out in some of the world's most powerful corporations and credit rating agencies on Wall Street, this short book describes, for the first time, the unspoken conflict that shapes the global economy. Anthropologist Alexandra Ouroussoff describes with startling clarity the effects of Wall Street's silent war: from the financial community's inability to price risk accurately (now recognised as a major cause of the financial crisis) to the deep reasons behind credit analysts' misplaced faith in numbers. Yet the book's most important contribution is its path-breaking analysis of the conditions of the conflict itself, here revealed as an unintended consequence of a much deeper transformation in the conditions underlying capitalism's success.
Author : Pasquale "Pat" Scida
Release : 2019-08-30
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 815/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Walworth Street to Wall Street by : Pasquale "Pat" Scida
Download or read book Walworth Street to Wall Street written by Pasquale "Pat" Scida. This book was released on 2019-08-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1968, auto body repairman, Pasquale "Pat" Scida, age 24, son of Italian immigrants and Brooklyn native, secured an $85 a week entry level position on Wall Street. His memoir, "Walworth Street to Wall Street" How an $85 a Week Clerk became a $100 Million Investment Banker," documents a 13-year journey from clerk to Vice President, managing weekly sales of $50 Million of Fixed Income Securities. "Walworth Street (where the author lived until age seventeen) to Wall Street" is a review of the work of Wall Street and a chronicle of its troubles during the years 1968-1981. Readers accompany the author through various firms; Eastman Dillon, Charles Plohn & Co., Reynolds Securities, and Dean Witter Reylolds; through jobs, departments and divisions of firms. Early stages will interest Operations, Fixed Income and Municipal Bond operatives. Financial industry executive(s) and middle management past and present, will gravitate to the descriptions of toppling firms and the merger and acquisition of others, including portraits of their legendary executives. Further, the author describes his and his colleagues roll in "a vast movement of capital from the nation's banks to its brokerage firms," stemming from the runaway inflation and interest rates of the late seventies and early eighties. For investors, the author deciphers, the transactional and market trade, new issue and secondary market pricing, brokerage firm profitability, product development and more. Set against a series of momentous political and economic events, The Arab Oil Embargo, The Iran Hostage Crisis, The NYC Fiscal Collapse, The WHUPPS debacle and The Vietnam War; "Walworth Street to Wall Street" is a fast-paced account of the making of a Wall Street career, during a period of real time events that shook the financial community and the nation. If you like Wall Street, you're going to love "Walworth Street to Wall Street."
