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Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street 1920-1938
by John Brooks
Manufacturer: Allworth Press |
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Summary: An important read for regulators
Content: This book documents exactly how lack of regulation and lack of protection from shortsellers was such a serios contributor to the stock market crash. Unfortunately nobody in the SEC read this book 5 years ago or we won't be in the mess the market/casino is ... → Click here to read more reviews. | |
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Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
by Ben Hamper
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing |
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Summary: A good-natured blue collar Hunter Thompson
Content: Right from the gitgo Ben Hamper's Rivethead grabs you with gritty gusto of passages such as the above; Hamper is an extraordinary writer about life for the ordinary guy... at least the ordinary guy who winds up as an automotive assembly-line worker for General ... → Click here to read more reviews. | |
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Bethlehem Steel: Builder and Arsenal of America
by Kenneth Warren
Manufacturer: University of Pittsburgh Press |
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Summary: A lesson -- not learned -- for our times
Content: How does a great firm go bad? Was its demise due to incompetence, greed, bad luck, poor timing, or competition? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And yes.
Bethlehem Steel grew from humble beginnings to become a major force in the world. Baltimore was an ideal ... → Click here to read more reviews. | |
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The Modern Corporation and Private Property
by Adolph Berle
Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers |
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Summary: worthless classic, error-ridden and misleading, even in 1932
Content: This book was NOT the first to stigmatize giant corporations for "the separation of ownership and control." Rather, the key to the book's success was the timeliness of its appearance, during the Great Depression, not because it had anything new to contribute ... → Click here to read more reviews. | |
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Guide to Analysing Companies, Third Edition
by Bob Vause
Manufacturer: Bloomberg Press |
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Summary: it's really a book for beginner
Content: Hm...I've had only 2 courses in Finance during my study so I thought I'm a beginner enough for this book but apparently I was wrong...I think you should only purchase this book if you have absolutely no idea about finance ... → Click here to read more reviews. | |
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The Great Housing Bubble: Why Did House Prices Fall?
by Lawrence Roberts
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Summary: 4.5 stars-Demonstrates that it was banker financed speculation ,and not low interest rates, that caused the eventual collapse
Content: The author does an excellent job in showing how various commercial and investment banks sought to create a speculative market for home loans by the process of securitization.The main tool was collateralized debt obligations(CDO'S).The idea is purely speculative ... → Click here to read more reviews. | |
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