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Wall Street

Author : Charles R. Geisst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199912742
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Wall Street written by Charles R. Geisst and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wall Street is an unending source of legend--and nightmares. It is a universal symbol of both the highest aspirations of economic prosperity and the basest impulses of greed and deception. Charles R. Geisst's Wall Street is at once a chronicle of the street itself--from the days when the wall was merely a defensive barricade built by Peter Stuyvesant--and an engaging economic history of the United States, a tale of profits and losses, enterprising spirits, and key figures that transformed America into the most powerful economy in the world. The book traces many themes, like the move of industry and business westward in the early 19th century, the rise of the great Robber Barons, and the growth of industry from the securities market's innovative financing of railroads, major steel companies, and Bell's and Edison's technical innovations. And because "The Street" has always been a breeding ground for outlandish characters with brazen nerve, no history of the stock market would be complete without a look at the conniving of ruthless wheeler-dealers and lesser known but influential rogues. This updated edition covers the historic, almost apocalyptic events of the 2008 financial crisis and the overarching policy changes of the Obama administration. As Wall Street and America have changed irrevocably after the crisis, Charles R. Geisst offers the definitive chronicle of the relationship between the two, and the challenges and successes it has fostered that have shaped our history.

Wall Street

Author : Charles R. Geisst
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195170603
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Wall Street written by Charles R. Geisst and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging volume, a financial historian updates the first history of Wall Street, recounting the speculative fever of the 1990s and the scandals at Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, and Conseco. 27 halftones.

Wall Street in History

Author : Martha Joanna Lamb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wall Street in History written by Martha Joanna Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

When Wall Street Met Main Street

Author : Julia C. Ott
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674061217
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book When Wall Street Met Main Street written by Julia C. Ott and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The financial crisis that began in 2008 has made Americans keenly aware of the enormous impact Wall Street has on the economic well-being of the nation and its citizenry. How did financial markets and institutions-commonly perceived as marginal and elitist at the beginning of the twentieth century-come to be seen as the bedrock of American capitalism? How did stock investment-once considered disreputable and dangerous-first become a mass practice? Julia Ott tells the story of how, between the rise of giant industrial corporations and the Crash of 1929, the federal government, corporations, and financial institutions campaigned to universalize investment, with the goal of providing individual investors with a stake in the economy and the nation. As these distributors of stocks and bonds established a broad, national market for financial securities, they debated the distribution of economic power, the proper role of government, and the meaning of citizenship under modern capitalism. By 1929, the incidence of stock ownership had risen to engulf one quarter of American households in the looming financial disaster. Accordingly, the federal government assumed responsibility for protecting citizen-investors by regulating the financial securities markets. By recovering the forgotten history of this initial phase of mass investment and the issues surrounding it, Ott enriches and enlightens contemporary debates over economic reform.

The First Wall Street

Author : Robert E. Wright
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226910296
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book The First Wall Street written by Robert E. Wright and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Americans think of investment and finance, they think of Wall Street—though this was not always the case. During the dawn of the Republic, Philadelphia was the center of American finance. The first stock exchange in the nation was founded there in 1790, and around it the bustling thoroughfare known as Chestnut Street was home to the nation's most powerful financial institutions. The First Wall Street recounts the fascinating history of Chestnut Street and its forgotten role in the birth of American finance. According to Robert E. Wright, Philadelphia, known for its cultivation of liberty and freedom, blossomed into a financial epicenter during the nation's colonial period. The continent's most prodigious minds and talented financiers flocked to Philly in droves, and by the eve of the Revolution, the Quaker City was the most financially sophisticated region in North America. The First Wall Street reveals how the city played a leading role in the financing of the American Revolution and emerged from that titanic struggle with not just the wealth it forged in the crucible of war, but an invaluable amount of human capital as well. This capital helped make Philadelphia home to the Bank of the United States, the U.S. Mint, an active securities exchange, and several banks and insurance companies—all clustered in or around Chestnut Street. But as the decades passed, financial institutions were lured to New York, and by the late 1820s only the powerful Second Bank of the United States upheld Philadelphia's financial stature. But when Andrew Jackson vetoed its charter, he sealed the fate of Chestnut Street forever—and of Wall Street too. Finely nuanced and elegantly written, The First Wall Street will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the United States and the origins of its unrivaled economy.

Wall Street

Author : Charles R. Geisst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195396219
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Wall Street written by Charles R. Geisst and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An economic historian presents the first, wide-ranging chronicle of the rise of Wall Street, tracing how the Street fueled the development of the U.S. into a world economic power and how it was increasingly subjected to government involvement. UP.

100 Years of Wall Street

Author : Charles Geisst
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780071356190
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book 100 Years of Wall Street written by Charles Geisst and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of Wall Street in the 20th century.

Inside the Wall Street Journal

Author : Jerry Martin Rosenberg
Publisher : New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Inside the Wall Street Journal written by Jerry Martin Rosenberg and published by New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan. This book was released on 1982 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wall Street: A History

Author : Charles R. Geisst
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199883610
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Wall Street: A History written by Charles R. Geisst and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004-02-20 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seven years since the publication of the first edition of Wall Street, America's financial industry has undergone a series of wrenching events that have dramatically changed the nation's economic landscape. The bull market of the 1990's came to a close, ushering in the end of the dot com boom, a record number of mergers occurred, and accounting scandals in companies like Enron and WorldCom shook the financial industry to its core. In this wide-ranging volume, financial historian Charles Geisst provides the first history of Wall Street, explaining how a small, concentrated pocket of lower Manhattan came to have such enormous influence in national and world affairs. In this updated edition, Geisst sums up the recent turbulence that has threatened America's financial industry. He shows how in 1997 thirty NASDAQ market makers paid a record $1.3 billion fine for price irregularities in stocks. He makes sense of the closing of the bull market, and explains a major change in the accounting rules for mergers that caused monumental losses for companies like AOL Time Warner. And he recounts how in the aftermath of the speculative fever that swept Wall Street in the 1990's, the scandals at Enron, Tyco, Worldcom, and Conseco represent a last gasp of mergermania and a fallout from a bubble-like market. Wall Street is at once the story of the street itself, from the days when the wall was merely a defensive barricade built by Peter Stuyvesant, to the modern billion-dollar computer-driven colossus of today. In a broader sense it is an engaging economic history of the United States, the role Wall Street played in making America the most powerful economy in the world, and the many challenges to that role it has faced in recent years.

The Transformation of Wall Street

Author : Joel Seligman
Publisher : Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of Wall Street written by Joel Seligman and published by Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. This book was released on 2003 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1977, "The Transformation of Wall Street" has offered an in-depth look at the history of the SEC's origins, accomplishments, and failings since its creation in 1934. This updated third edition continues the history until 2001, the end of Arthur Levitt's Chairmanship, with a treatment of auditing issues through the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act .

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Ninth Edition)

Author : Burton G. Malkiel
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393330338
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Ninth Edition) written by Burton G. Malkiel and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-12-17 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated with a new chapter that draws on behavioral finance, the field that studies the psychology of investment decisions, the bestselling guide to investing evaluates the full range of financial opportunities.

Panic on Wall Street

Author : Robert Sobel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Panic on Wall Street written by Robert Sobel and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In the Black

Author : Gregory S. Bell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047121485X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book In the Black written by Gregory S. Bell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The never-before-told story of five decades of African Americans onWall Street Here, for the first time, is the fascinating history of the AfricanAmerican experience on Wall Street as told by Gregory Bell, the sonof the man who founded the first black-owned member firm of the NewYork Stock Exchange. A successful finance professional in his ownright with close ties to leading figures in both the blackfinancial and civil rights communities, Bell tells the stories ofthe pioneers who broke down the ancient social and politicalbarriers to African American participation in the nation sfinancial industry. With the help of profiles of many importantblack leaders of the past fifty years including everyone from JesseJackson and Maynard Jackson, former mayor of Atlanta, to E. StanleyO Neal, COO and President of Merrill Lynch, and Russell Goings,founder of First Harlem Securities and cofounder of First HarlemSecurities he shows how in the years following World War II thegrowing social, political, and financial powers of AfricanAmericans converged on Wall Street. Set to publish during BlackHistory Month, In the Black will be warmly received by AfricanAmerican business readers and general readers alike.

What Goes Up

Author : Eric J. Weiner
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316030708
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book What Goes Up written by Eric J. Weiner and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ups and downs, the schemes and scams, the IPOs and hostile takeovers, the egos, the brilliance, the greed and the glory-this is the story of Wall Street, told by the men and women who made it happen. Once upon a time, Wall Street was just a footpath near the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Today it is the center of the financial world, the pivot point on which economies turn, companies rise and fall, and daring men and women go from rags to unbelievable riches, and sometimes back again. Along the way, Wall Street also has transformed itself and society, growing from an exclusive gentlemen's club to the place that millions of people now trust with their financial futures. Never has it been more important to understand how modern Wall Street truly works. And never before has the story of modern Wall Street been told by those who were there, personally, in their own words, uncensored, unfiltered, unbound. Now, in What Goes Up, acclaimed financial journalist Eric J. Weiner gives us the unvarnished, first-person truth in a riveting story based on hundreds of interviews with Wall Street insiders that captures the booms and busts of the past half century in America's financial capital in gripping detail. From Warren Buffett to Michael Milken, Sandy Weill to Henry Kravis, Peter Lynch to Alan Greenspan, from the birth of the mutual fund to the Internet bubble, from trading scandals to global meltdowns, from the rise of tycoons to the fall of giants. What Goes Up is a remarkable weaving together of larger-than-life characters and insider accounts. Eric J. Weiner has spoken to just about everybody-from CEOs to the barber in the basement of the stock exchange. For anyone who wants to understand how Wall Street became what it is, who wants to know how the biggest deals really happened, who wishes they had been a fly on the wall when it all went down, this is the book.

The Physics of Wall Street

Author : James Owen Weatherall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547317271
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Physics of Wall Street written by James Owen Weatherall and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young scholar tells the story of the physicists and mathematicians who created the models that have become the basis of modern finance and argues that these models are the "solution" to--not the source of--our current economic woes.

Bankers and Empire

Author : Peter James Hudson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022645925X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Bankers and Empire written by Peter James Hudson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean. A host of financial entities sought to control banking, trade, and finance in the region. In the process, they not only trampled local sovereignty, grappled with domestic banking regulation, and backed US imperialism—but they also set the model for bad behavior by banks, visible still today. In Bankers and Empire, Peter James Hudson tells the provocative story of this period, taking a close look at both the institutions and individuals who defined this era of American capitalism in the West Indies. Whether in Wall Street minstrel shows or in dubious practices across the Caribbean, the behavior of the banks was deeply conditioned by bankers’ racial views and prejudices. Drawing deeply on a broad range of sources, Hudson reveals that the banks’ experimental practices and projects in the Caribbean often led to embarrassing failure, and, eventually, literal erasure from the archives.

A First-Class Catastrophe

Author : Diana B. Henriques
Publisher : Henry Holt
ISBN 13 : 1627791647
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book A First-Class Catastrophe written by Diana B. Henriques and published by Henry Holt. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The definitive account of the crash of 1987, a cautionary tale of how the U.S. financial system nearly collapsed ... Monday, October 19, 1987, was by far the worst day in Wall Street history. The market fell 22.6 percent--almost twice as bad as the worst day of 1929--equal to a loss of nearly 5,000 points today. But Black Monday was more than just a one-day market crash; it was seven years in the making and threatened the entire U.S. financial system. Drawing on superlative archival research and dozens of original interviews, the award-winning financial journalist Diana B. Henriques weaves a tale of ignored warnings, market delusions, and destructive decisions, a drama that stretches from New York and Washington to Chicago and California. Among the central characters are pension fund managers, bank presidents, government regulators, exchange executives, and a pair of university professors whose bright idea for reducing risk backfires with devastating consequences. As the story hurtles toward a terrible reckoning, the players struggle to avoid a national panic, and unexpected heroes step in to avert total disaster. For thirty years, investors, bankers, and regulators have failed to heed the lessons of Black Monday. But with uncanny precision, all the key fault lines of the devastating crisis of 2008--breakneck automation, poorly understood financial products fueled by vast amounts of borrowed money, fragmented regulation, gigantic herdlike investors--were first exposed as hazards in 1987. A First-Class Catastrophe offers a new way of looking not only at the past but at our financial future as well."--Dust jacket.