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"Nothing Personal is the stunning story of Warren Hament, a bright young man who stumbles into a career in finance in the early 1980s. His rapid rise exposes the inner workings of the amoral, crude, and brutal world of top-tier investment banking as only a true insider could know them. Introduced to the elite bastions of wealth and privilege, and with his beautiful and ambitious girlfriend pushing him, he gets a major boost when first his patrician...
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Just when it seems that international crook Nicolas Fox has been captured for good, he pulls off his greatest con of all: he convinces the FBI to offer him a job, working side by side with Special Agent Kate O'Hare. Problem is, teaming up to stop a corrupt investment banker who's hiding on a private island in Indonesia is going to test O'Hare's patience and Fox's skill -- if the two don't kill each other first.
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c2010
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1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Following a lengthy prison term, Gordon Gekko finds himself on the outside looking in at a world he once commanded. Hoping to repair his relationship with his daughter, Winnie, Gekko forges an alliance with her fiancé, Jake. But Winnie and Jake learn the hard way that Gekko is still a master manipulator who will stop at nothing to reclaim his rightful place at the top of Wall Street.
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Many of the problems of globalization confronting us today-including finding the right balance between economic growth, technological advance, and international trade, and human welfare-also troubled earlier generations. David Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy and Taxation represents an important early attempt to illuminate the problem and to offer viable...
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What is the arrogance cycle? We've just lived through it. As market bubbles build, our confidence level rises (dis)proportionately. Everyone wants in on the action. We want to believe Wall Street, and once we do, the inevitable happens. Like Dr. Frankenstein breathing life into inanimate flesh, investment professionals sought ever more novel ways to create wealth. The only problem was that it was all artificial. In this book, Michael Farr examines...
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This report provides updates on the bond market in Hong Kong, China since the publication of the ASEAN+3 Bond Market Guide 2016: Hong Kong, China. It also highlights those changes and developments that have a connection to the bond market of the People's Republic of China. The ASEAN+3 Bond Market Guide series provides member-specific information on the investment climate, rules, laws, opportunities, and characteristics of local bond markets in Asia...
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Darrell Duffie is the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He is the author of Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory and the coauthor of Credit Risk: Pricing, Measurement, and Management (both Princeton).
A leading finance expert explains how and why big banks fail-and what can be done to prevent it
Dealer banks-that is, large banks that deal in securities and derivatives, such as J. P. Morgan...
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Common Stocks as Long Term Investments (1924) by Edgar Lawrence Smith proved for the first time that stocks outperformed bonds in long-term stock market investments. Before Smith's work, the prevailing wisdom regarding investing stated that bonds were a safer investment. Conservative investors would allocate a large portion of their investments to bonds, relying on the annual rate of interest as a sure bet. Stocks, on the other hand, were viewed as...
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To get the biggest return, real estate investors need the right financing. And as they buy multiple properties, their debt to equity rises, making it more difficult to get the kind of deal they need. As many investors have learned the hard way, getting the wrong financing can wipe out their profits, hold them back from selling because of a lack of equity, or force them to try to sell for more than the market will bear. The Real Estate Investor's Guide...
10) Automatic Passive Income - How the Best Dividend Stocks Can Generate Passive Income for Wealth Build
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If you are looking for a comprehensive dividend-investing book, then you have landed in the right place. With the help of this passive income book, learn how to invest in the booming stock market and generate true passive income through the tried-and-true investing strategy of dividend growth stock investing. In these difficult economic times, preparing for a secure financial future has become an essential part of our lives. This book has something...
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Pour tout connaître sur l'institution bancaire, de la gestion de la clientèle au fonctionnement du secteur dans son ensemble.
Le Vademecum de la Banque constitue un réel aide-mémoire du banquier au quotidien, mais également une référence professionnelle pour les étudiants. Rédigé par des experts, il s'agit d'un ouvrage complet et actualisé, conçu par des professionnels pour des professionnels. Il s'agit d'un outil idéal pour trouver...
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Un guide pratique pour tout connaitre des assurances et du Monep.
L'auteur nous fait profiter de sa riche expérience à la fois en tant que professionnel de la finance de marché, et en tant qu'universitaire. À travers un propos didactique, émaillé de nombreux exemples et accessible au grand public, l'auteur aborde successivement les options (définition, utilisation, évaluation) et le fonctionnement du marché parisien. Le lecteur trouvera...
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A noted economist exposes the truth behind our shrinking dollars...What precisely is inflation? What is its cause? Its cure? How long will it last? Is there any way you can take advantage of inflation? If not, how can you protect yourself against further erosion in the value of your savings? Henry Hazlitt gives his answers to these questions and many more in this clear, readable book. He exposes the fallacies by which some people have come to justify...
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Frank Chodorov adored the work of Albert Jay Nock, particularly Nock's writings on the State, and so Chodorov set out to rework Nock's book in his own style-with this book being the result. It describes in detail the difference between the "State" and "Society" and highlights issues current to this day, such as high tax, high spend and loss of freedom. The book illustrates the formation of a society, its government, and the eventual dismantling of...
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These guidelines explain the ASEAN+3 Multi-Currency Bond Issuance Framework (AMBIF) and relate AMBIF Elements to the corresponding features of the professional Cambodian bond market. The guidelines highlight market characteristics that are significant for issuers and investors, and review the regulatory processes required for issuing different types of debt securities. The guidelines are an output of the ASEAN+3 Bond Market Forum and were developed...
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American economist FRANK WILLIAM TAUSSIG (1859-1940) was professor of political economy at Harvard University, longtime editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and an advisor to U.S. president Woodrow Wilson during World War II. He is also the author of The Tariff History of the United States (1888), the two-volume Principles of Economics (1911), and International Trade (1927).
In this seminal work he shows how the tariff policies had an enormous...
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Since I wrote my small volume on A General Theory of the Price Level, etc., I have often been asked for a fuller statement of my views, or my attitude on various matters treated only briefly at that time….I hope that the collection of essays that are contained herein fill in many of these gaps and answer the major part of the queries that admit of such elaboration.
In my opinion there are two contending theories of the price level: that deriving...
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Karl Marx's History of Economic Theories from the Physiocrats to Adam Smith is Part I of the legendary but previously untranslated Volume IV of Marx's Capital. Although it was written some ninety years ago, it remained unpublished until the first German edition appeared in 1904. Originally, Marx had intended to prepare the first three volumes for publication, then, from the remaining mass of manuscript, to extract a final volume constituting a history...
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First published in 1959, this is a line-by-line commentary and refutation of one of the most destructive, fallacious, and convoluted books of the century: John Maynard Keynes's General Theory, published in 1936. In economic science, Keynes changed everything. He supposedly demonstrated that prices don't work, that private investment is unstable, that sound money is intolerable, and that government was needed to shore up the system and save it. It...
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