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Book Synopsis When Wall Street Met Main Street by : Julia C. Ott
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.
Download or read book Bailout written by Neil Barofsky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a new foreword to the paperback edition.
Book Synopsis Main Street and Wall Street by : William Zebina Ripley
Download or read book Main Street and Wall Street written by William Zebina Ripley and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the war: how things looked then [by Woodrow Wilson]--Corporate vehicles; post-war engineer of finance.--Getting out from under: various angles of it.--Giving up control: a birthright for pottage.--New thoroughfares: a way out?--Light at the crossways: stop, look, listen!--Impublicity: what to do about it.--Our railroads: safe financial common carriers.--Planning ahead, or happy-go-lucky: which?--More light: and power, too!--Public utilities: still more about them.
Download or read book Bull by the Horns written by Sheila Bair and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former FDIC chairwoman, who was among the first individuals to acknowledge the full risk of subprime loans, shares expert and insider perspectives on the economic crisis to assess contributing causes and ultimate ramifications.
Book Synopsis Main Street and Wall Street by : William Z. Ripley
Download or read book Main Street and Wall Street written by William Z. Ripley and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
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.
Book Synopsis Take on the Street by : Arthur Levitt
Download or read book Take on the Street written by Arthur Levitt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-10-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Take on the Street, Arthur Levitt--Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission for eight years under President Clinton--provides the best kind of insider information: the kind that can help honest, small investors protect themselves from the deliberately confusing ways of Wall Street. At a time when investor confidence in Wall Street and corporate America is at an historic low, when many are seriously questioning whether or not they should continue to invest, Levitt offers the benefits of his own experience, both on Wall Street and as its chief regulator. His straight talk about the ways of stockbrokers (they are salesmen, plain and simple), corporate financial statements (the truth is often hidden), mutual fund managers (remember who they really work for), and other aspects of the business will help to arm everyone with the tools they need to protect—and enhance—their financial future.
Book Synopsis Wall Street to Main Street by : Edwin J. Perkins
Download or read book Wall Street to Main Street written by Edwin J. Perkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1999 biography of Charles Merrill, the founder of the world's largest brokerage and investment firm.
Download or read book Main Street written by Sinclair Lewis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel written by Sinclair Lewis is set in the small town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, a fictionalized version of Sauk Centre, Minnesota. The novel takes place in the 1910s, with references to the start of World War I, the United States' entry into the war, and the years following the end of the war, including the start of Prohibition. Satirizing small-town life, Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewis's most famous book, and led in part to his eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. It relates the life and struggles of Carol Milford Kennicott as she comes into conflict with the small-town mentality of the residents of Gopher Prairie. Highly acclaimed upon publication, Main Street remains a recognized American classic.
Book Synopsis Main Street and Wall Street by : William Z. Ripley
Download or read book Main Street and Wall Street written by William Z. Ripley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Main Street and Wall Street This book is not just a treatise on economics; nor is it a handy manual for investors. It purports to go deeper than that, down toward the root of things. It is partly the expression of a lifelong aspiration to promote a greater equality of opportunity among men - a more even chance at getting a living all round, and a fairer show at conserving the fruits of such activity thereafter. Only thus can there be any real pleasure in work and in thrift in the world. And it is upon the reasonable exercise of these virtues that our American democratic polity must depend for its perpetuation. It should be a prime function of government to stimulate and in every way to protect the manifestation of these basic instincts. Property should never be allowed to degenerate into an instrument of oppression. Its only justification in a free state is that it shall contribute to such an equality of opportunity for all members of the community alike, that each one shall be more able to take care of and to make the best of himself. This, then, is really a study in the relation of property to civilization. My theory of it could not be more pithily stated than in the following characterization of William Cobbett by G. K. Chesterton: - He would have been as ready as any merchant or trader to face the fact that man, as God has made him, must make money. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Democracy At Risk by : Jeffrey R. Gates
Download or read book Democracy At Risk written by Jeffrey R. Gates and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2000-05-18 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the leading voice in the "shared capitalism" movement comes a manifesto for spreading wealth and creating a truly democratic society.
Book Synopsis The Bullies of Wall Street by : Sheila Bair
Download or read book The Bullies of Wall Street written by Sheila Bair and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can knowing how a financial crisis happened keep it from happening again? Sheila Bair, the former chairman of the FDIC, explains how the Great Recession impacted families on a personal level in this easy-to-understand book “that puts a human face on the economic crisis” (School Library Journal). In 2008, America went through a terrible financial crisis, and we are still suffering the consequences. Families lost their homes and struggled to pay for food and medicine. Businesses didn’t have money to buy equipment or hire and pay workers. Millions of people lost their jobs and their life savings. More than 100,000 businesses went bankrupt. As the former head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Sheila Bair worked to protect families during the crisis and keep their bank deposits safe. In The Bullies of Wall Street, she describes the many ways in which a broken system led families into financial trouble, and also explains the decisions being made at the time by the most powerful people in the country—from CEOs of multinational banks, to heads of government regulatory committees—that led to the recession.
Book Synopsis Main Street and Wall Street by : William Zebina Ripley
Download or read book Main Street and Wall Street written by William Zebina Ripley and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not just a treatise on economics; nor is it a handy manual for investors. It purports to go deeper than that, down toward the root of things. It is partly the expression of a lifelong aspiration to promote a greater equality of opportunity among men. Contents: Before the war; corporate vehicles; getting out from under; giving up control; new thoroughfares; light at the crossways; impublicity; our railroads; planning ahead; more light and power too; public utilities.
Download or read book Capital Offense written by Michael Hirsh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why every president from Reagan through Obama has put Wall Street before Main Street Over the last few decades, Washington’s firmly held belief that if you make investors happy, a booming economy will follow has caused an economic crisis in Asia, hardship in Latin America, and now a severe recession in America and Europe. How did the best and brightest of our time allow this to happen? Why have these disasters done nothing to change the free-market mantra of the Washington faithful? The answer has nothing to do with lobbyists and everything to do with ideology. In Capital Offense, veteran Newsweek reporter Michael Hirsh gives us a colorful narrative history of the era he calls the Age of Capital, telling the story through the eyes of its key players, from Ronald Reagan and Milton Friedman through Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner. • Based on the solid research and skilled reporting of Newsweek Senior Editor Michael Hirsh • Takes you inside high-level, closed-door conversations of top White House advisers and administration officials such as Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, Paul O’Neill, and others • Illuminates key figures and lively interpersonal clashes, including the conflict between Larry Summers and Nobel Prize-winning economist Joe Stiglitz • Offers crucial insights on why President Obama took so long to work on the economy—and why he may not be going far enough • Catalogs the missteps of three decades of fiscal, regulatory, and financial recklessness, including the dismantling of the Glass-Steagall Act, the S&L debacle, Enron, and the subprime mortgage meltdown As we struggle to emerge from the financial crisis, one thing seems certain: Wall Street’s continued dominance of the global economy. Propelled into the lead by a generation of Washington policy-makers, Wall Street will continue to stay ahead of them.
Book Synopsis Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by : Michael Lewis
Download or read book Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt written by Michael Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that post-crisis Wall Street continues to be controlled by large banks and explains how a small, diverse group of Wall Street men have banded together to reform the financial markets.
Book Synopsis House of Cards by : William D. Cohan
Download or read book House of Cards written by William D. Cohan and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blistering narrative account of the negligence and greed that pushed all of Wall Street into chaos and the country into a financial crisis. At the beginning of March 2008, the monetary fabric of Bear Stearns, one of the world’s oldest and largest investment banks, began unraveling. After ten days, the bank no longer existed, its assets sold under duress to rival JPMorgan Chase. The effects would be felt nationwide, as the country suddenly found itself in the grip of the worst financial mess since the Great Depression. William Cohan exposes the corporate arrogance, power struggles, and deadly combination of greed and inattention, which led to the collapse of not only Bear Stearns but the very foundations of Wall Street.
Book Synopsis Street Of Dreams - Boulevard Of Broken Hearts by : Howard M. Wachtel
Download or read book Street Of Dreams - Boulevard Of Broken Hearts written by Howard M. Wachtel and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2003-05-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular illustrated history explores the dramatic highs and lows of Wall Street and its development through the 19th century.
