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Too Big to Fail: The Hazards of Bank Bailouts
by Gary H. Stern
Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press |
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Summary: 3.5 stars-Bank speculation has always been a fundamental problem
Content: Stern and Feldman(SF) do a good job in demonstrating the complete idiocy of deregulating and privatizing the commercial banking industry ,specifically, and the financial sector ,in general ,starting with the Carter administration in 1979 and continuing through ...
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Doing Deals: Investment Banks at Work
by Robert G. Eccles
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Summary: Structure of Investment Banking
Content: Doing Deals in an analysis of investment banking. It details the various structures of investment banks and how they approach their relationships with their customers. It discusses transactional-based investment banking vs. relationship investment banking. ...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Federal Reserve
by Lita Epstein
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Summary: Learning about the Federal reserve
Content: I wanted to learn the easy (Idiot) way about the Federal Reserve. It did not answer all the questions, and sometimes not clearly. It had information about more than the Federal Reserve which I didnt care about. ...
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Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans
by Stephen Pizzo
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Summary: Not for the Faint Hearted
Content: The book itself is a fantastic example of very thorough investigative journalism. The writers obviously spent years doing massive amounts of research and interviews. It reads very well and presents a cast of characters as they truly are. It is written for ...
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Rogue Trader
by Nick Leeson
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Summary: Leeson's Lessons
Content: As it turns out, Nick Leeson does not seem to be a terrible guy, although he single-handedly caused the collapse of one of the oldest banks in the world in early 1995, Barings Bank. I just don't understand how he could let the 88888 account continue for so ...
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Money and Power: The History of Business
by Howard Means
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Summary: The Dirty-but-Legal Way to Riches
Content: Let me preface this by saying I liked the book. It was an easy read and a great 'capsulation' of each generation of Mega Millionaire. It was a great 'primer' for who was famously popular in each era.
On the other hand, it appeared to me that the ...
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The World Bank and the Gods of Lending
by Steve Berkman
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Summary: A look at how bad mismanagement can be
Content: Globalization has lead to the formation of a World Bank but how has such a venture turned out? "The World Bank and the Gods of Lending" is a thorough and scholarly examination of the acts of the World Bank. Looking at its history of loans and how it has spent ...
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