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Fortune Tellers

Author : Walter Friedman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691159114
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Fortune Tellers written by Walter Friedman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping history of the pioneers who sought to use science to predict financial markets The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of economic fortune tellers, men such as Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, John Moody, C. J. Bullock, and Warren Persons. They competed to sell their distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses, and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating crash of 1929. Walter Friedman paints vivid portraits of entrepreneurs who shared a belief that the rational world of numbers and reason could tame--or at least foresee--the irrational gyrations of the market. Despite their failures, this first generation of economic forecasters helped to make the prediction of economic trends a central economic activity, and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They also raised questions that are still relevant today. What is science and what is merely guesswork in forecasting? What motivates people to buy forecasts? Does the act of forecasting set in motion unforeseen events that can counteract the forecast made? Masterful and compelling, Fortune Tellers highlights the risk and uncertainty that are inherent to capitalism itself.

The Golden Book of Fortune-Telling

Author : K.C. Jones
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452158193
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Book of Fortune-Telling written by K.C. Jones and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of fun and entertaining ways to understand your future, taken from entries in the bestselling Fortune-Telling series. In this book lie the answers to your future. Reveal the meanings of your name, birthday, zodiac sign, and dreams. Unveil the significance of your color choices, friendships, and love interests. Discover what is foretold, learn to read auspicious omens, and divine the gift of attracting good fortune. Consult The Golden Book of Fortune-Telling and uncover the wisdom of the ages—and the power to shape your destiny.

Fortune-Telling Birthday Book

Author : Chronicle Books
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 081187074X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Fortune-Telling Birthday Book written by Chronicle Books and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the meaning behind your birthday, identify your ideal mate, and more with this handy little guide. Forget cookies and crystal balls—this little book has a personalized fortune for you and everyone you love. Harkening back to the 1930s, the nostalgic illustrations in the Fortune-Telling Birthday Book accompany a perennial calendar for you to keep track of (and interpret) the birthdays of all your friends and family. Other traditions and folklore are also included—birthstones and their meanings, astrological signs, ideal mates, flowers of the month, and anniversary symbols.

The Fortune Tellers

Author : Howard Kurtz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743213203
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book The Fortune Tellers written by Howard Kurtz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-09-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as "spin" has taken over politics in America, so too has it come to define the long bull market on Wall Street. The booming trade in stocks, which has become a national obsession, has produced an insatiable demand for financial intelligence--and plenty of new, highly paid players eager to supply it. On television and the Internet, commentators and analysts are not merely reporting the news, they are making news in ways that provide huge windfalls for some investors and crushing losses for others. And they often traffic in rumor, speculation, and misinformation that hit the market at warp speed. Howard Kurtz, widely recognized as America's best media reporter, and the man who revealed the inner workings of the Clinton administration's press operation in the national bestseller Spin Cycle, here turns his skeptical eye on the business-media revolution that has transformed the American economy. He uncovers the backstage pressures at television shows like CNBC's Squawk Box and CNN's Moneyline; at old-media bastions like The Wall Street Journal and Business Week, which are racing to keep up with the twenty-four-hour news cycle; and at Internet start-ups like TheStreet.com and JagNotes, real-time operations in the very arena where fortunes are made and lost with stunning swiftness. Bombarded by all this white noise, who among the fortune tellers can investors really trust? Kurtz provides an indispensable guide with this eye-opening account of an unseen world, based on eighteen months of shadowing the most influential, colorful, and egotistical people in business and journalism. Among the people we meet in its pages are: Ron Insana, Maria Bartiromo, David Faber, Lou Dobbs, and the other famous faces of cable TV The manic king-of-all-media Jim Cramer, who juggles four different identities--Wall Street trader, television commentator, columnist, and Internet entrepreneur --with wildly varying degrees of success Shoe-leather reporters Steve Lipin, Chris Byron, and Gene Marcial, whose exclusives drive up stocks or quickly deflate them Superstar analysts Ralph Acampora, Abby Joseph Cohen, and Henry Blodget, whose predictions make the Dow and Nasdaq gyrate Internet CEOs Kim Polese and Kevin O'Connor, who struggle to ride the media tiger while promoting their high-flying companies No one has ever reported from inside the Wall Street media machine or laid bare the bitter feuds, cozy friendships, and whispered leaks that move the markets. Kurtz exposes the disturbing conflicts of interest among the brokerage analysts and fund managers whose words can boost or bash stocks --thanks to scoop-hungry journalists who rarely question whether these gurus are right or wrong. And he chronicles the journalistic hype that helped propel Net stocks into the stratosphere until they began plummeting back to earth. In a time of head-spinning volatility, The Fortune Tellers is essential reading for all of us who gamble our savings in today's overheated stock market.

Fortune Tellers

Author : Lucy BOWMAN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474927994
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Fortune Tellers written by Lucy BOWMAN and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create 80 unique fortune tellers, a form of origami used in children's games, with this beautifully illustrated, tear-out pad. There are fortune tellers on lots of different themes, including the circus, robots and dreams, plus blank sheets for children to invent their own games. Perfect for playing alone or with friends and family.

A Fortune-Teller Told Me

Author : Tiziano Terzani
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307565734
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book A Fortune-Teller Told Me written by Tiziano Terzani and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-02-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warned by a Hong Kong fortune-teller not to risk flying for a whole year, Tiziano Terzani — a vastly experienced Asia correspondent — took what he called “the first step into an unknown world. . . . It turned out to be one of the most extraordinary years I have ever spent: I was marked for death, and instead I was reborn.” Traveling by foot, boat, bus, car, and train, he visited Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Mongolia, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia. Geography expanded under his feet. He consulted soothsayers, sorcerers, and shamans and received much advice — some wise, some otherwise — about his future. With time to think, he learned to understand, respect, and fear for older ways of life and beliefs now threatened by the crasser forms of Western modernity. He rediscovered a place he had been reporting on for decades. And it reinvigorated him. The result is an immensely engaging, insightful, and idiosyncratic journey, filled with unexpected delights and strange encounters. A bestseller and major prizewinner in Italy, A Fortune-Teller Told Me is a powerful warning against the new missionaries of materialism.

Plight of the Fortune Tellers

Author : Riccardo Rebonato
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400824370
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Plight of the Fortune Tellers written by Riccardo Rebonato and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's top financial-risk professionals have come to rely on ever-more sophisticated mathematics in their attempts to come to grips with financial risk. But this excessive reliance on quantitative precision is misleading--and it puts us all at risk. This is the case that Riccardo Rebonato makes in Plight of the Fortune Tellers--and coming from someone who is both an experienced market professional and an academic, this heresy is worth listening to. Rebonato forcefully argues that we must restore genuine decision making to our financial planning, and he shows us how to do it using probability, experimental psychology, and decision theory. This is the only way to effectively manage financial risk in a manner congruent with how human beings actually react to chance. Rebonato challenges us to rethink the standard wisdom about probability in financial-risk management. Risk managers have become obsessed with measuring risk and believe that these quantitative results by themselves can guide sound financial choices--but they can't. In this book, Rebonato offers a radical yet surprisingly commonsense solution, one that seeks to remind us that managing risk comes down to real people making decisions under uncertainty. Plight of the Fortune Tellers is not only a book for the decision makers of Wall Street, it's a must-read for anyone concerned about how today's financial markets are run. The stakes have never been higher--can you risk it?

The Fortune Teller

Author : Gwendolyn Womack
Publisher : Picador USA
ISBN 13 : 1250099773
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Fortune Teller written by Gwendolyn Womack and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A USA TODAY AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER From the award-winning author of The Memory Painter comes a sweeping and suspenseful tale of romance, fate, and fortune. Semele Cavnow appraises antiquities for an exclusive Manhattan auction house, deciphering ancient texts—and when she discovers a manuscript written in the time of Cleopatra, she knows it will be the find of her career. Its author tells the story of a priceless tarot deck, now lost to history, but as Semele delves further, she realizes the manuscript is more than it seems. Both a memoir and a prophecy, it appears to be the work of a powerful seer, describing devastating wars and natural disasters in detail thousands of years before they occurred. The more she reads, the more the manuscript begins to affect Semele’s life. But what happened to the tarot deck? As the mystery of her connection to its story deepens, Semele can’t shake the feeling that she’s being followed. Only one person can help her make sense of it all: her client, Theo Bossard. Yet Theo is arrogant and elusive, concealing secrets of his own, and there’s more to Semele’s desire to speak with him than she would like to admit. Can Semele even trust him? The auction date is swiftly approaching, and someone wants to interfere—someone who knows the cards exist, and that the Bossard manuscript is tied to her. Semele realizes it’s up to her to stop them: the manuscript holds the key to a two-thousand-year-old secret, a secret someone will do anything to possess.

Origami Fortune Tellers

Author : Diane Heiman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486478262
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Origami Fortune Tellers written by Diane Heiman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen colorful origami fortune tellers offer kids loads of fun as they predict their futures at playdates, sleepovers, birthday parties, camp, or even by themselves. Pre-printed, perforated, and easy to fold, the paper toys feature themes ranging from Birthday Bash to Vacation Destination, plus 3 fill-in-the-blanks fortune tellers for personalized predictions.

The Fortune Teller's Kiss

Author : Brenda Serotte
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080324326X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Fortune Teller's Kiss written by Brenda Serotte and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the memoir of a Sephardic Jewish girl living among Ashkenazi neighbors in the Bronx. She comes down with polio just before her eighth birthday. She begins a fight against immobility set within a cultural realm where Catholic and Jew and Turkish Moslem once met. Where a beautiful aunt could be abducted into a Turkish harem and another aunt could still keep the 400-year-old iron key to the family house in the Cordoba of the Spanish Inquisition.

The Fortune-tellers

Author : Lloyd Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756797065
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Fortune-tellers written by Lloyd Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A carpenter in the West African country of Cameroon goes to a fortune teller and finds the predictions about his future coming true in an unusual way" -- Title page verso.

The Complete Fortune Teller

Author : Marc Lemezma
Publisher : New Holland Australia(AU)
ISBN 13 : 9781845374211
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Fortune Teller written by Marc Lemezma and published by New Holland Australia(AU). This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fortune-telling, in its various guises, is as popular now as ever, though it is still regarded as a mysterious and complex process. Marc Lemezma breaks the subject down into all the practical elements of the various fortune telling disciplines - covering runes, tarot, palmistry, cartomancy, and astrology.

Fortune-tellers and Philosophers

Author : Richard J Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429710755
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Fortune-tellers and Philosophers written by Richard J Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an analysis of Chinese divination as a means of organizing and interpreting reality, Richard Smith examines a wide variety of mantic techniques - from the use of the hallowed Yjing to such popular practices as siting (geomancy), astrology, numerology, physiognomy, the analysis of written characters, meteorological divination, the use of mediums (including spirit-writing), and dream interpretation. As he explains the pervasiveness and tenacity of divination in China, the author explores not only the connections between various mantic techniques but also the relationship between divination and other facets of Chinese culture, including philosophy, science and medicine. He discusses the symbolism of divination, its aesthetics, its ritual aspects, and its psychological and social significance, pointing out that in traditional China divination helped to order the future, just as history helped to order the past, and rituals the present.

Murder at the Fortune Teller's Table

Author : Janet Finsilver
Publisher : Lyrical Press
ISBN 13 : 1616509333
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Murder at the Fortune Teller's Table written by Janet Finsilver and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman starts digging up the past in a small Northern California town—and winds up six feet under—in this mystery by the USA Today bestselling author. When a local woman begins searching for a couple she hasn’t seen since the 1960s, Redwood Cove Bed and Breakfast manager Kelly Jackson and the crime-solving group, the “Silver Sentinels,” are quick to help out. They’re also quick to realize that they’re in over their heads. Not only is the woman found dead beside the body of a Greek fortune teller, but one of the Sentinels is attacked. As Kelly juggles the B&B and her role with the town’s food and wine festival, she and her posse of sleuthing seniors must confront a killer obsessed with old secrets . . . and solve a murder mystery more than fifty years in the making.

Fold Me Up

Author : Michelle Taute
Publisher : TarcherPerigee
ISBN 13 : 9780399163302
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Fold Me Up written by Michelle Taute and published by TarcherPerigee. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You remember Cootie Catchers . . . those little fortune-tellers you made out of paper that told you important information about the future - like whether you'd live in a mansion or a shack, or have ten kids or none, or if the most popular kid in class might ever ask you to go steady. Well, they're back. An they're not just for kids anymore. Within the pages of Fold Me Up you'll find 100 exquisitely quirky cootie catchers that will help you with important life dlemmas like- Should you have another cocktail? What Jane Austen heroine are you? Who is your '80s movie alter ego? What would Mr. T do? Do you have bedbugs? Does your crush like you back? Give these beautifully designed fortune tellers as birthday gifts or wedding favors - or make your own using the blank forms included.

Instant Fortune-Teller

Author : Adams Media
Publisher : Adams Media
ISBN 13 : 150721216X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Instant Fortune-Teller written by Adams Media and published by Adams Media. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find the answers to your burning questions now without the time-consuming tea brewing or palm reading—just call on the universe and flip to a page to find exactly what you’re looking for! Frustrated with tarot cards? Sick of drinking tea? Then Instant Fortune-Teller provides exactly what you need: a collection of carefully divined fortunes and predictions, laid out by the universe to lead you directly to your answer. Simply set your intention, call on the universe, and open to your message—no shuffling, star gazing, or pendulums needed! Some of the messages you may find include: “Optimism and boundless energy fill your interactions today.” “You’re feeling flirty and conversational, but ultimately you’re just having fun, not looking for anything serious.” “Use your powers of flexibility and freedom to drive your future.” No matter where you are or what your schedule is like, you can find the instant answers that will help you make decisions about your future without wasting a single moment!

The Fortune-Teller's Bible

Author : Jane Struthers
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402752254
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book The Fortune-Teller's Bible written by Jane Struthers and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FORTUNE-TELLING & DIVINATION. The Fortune-teller's Bible is the definitive guide to divination including numerology, scrying, face-reading and the I Ching. From palmistry to Chinese astrology and from the tarot to tea-leaf reading this book will help you discover the secrets of your own future and what the future holds for your family and friends. Featuring practical instructions together with the fascinating history of these ancient arts, this book is the essential reference for anyone who's ever wanted to gaze into a crystal ball.