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What We Want Is Free: Generosity And Exchange In Recent Art (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture)
Manufacturer: State University of New York Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0791462900 |
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What We Want Is Free: Generosity And Exchange In Recent Art.......2007-07-23
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What You Need to Know Before You Invest
Rod Davis Manufacturer: Barron''s Educational Series ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0764124935 |
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Updated to help readers cope with the unusual number of uncertainties that characterize today’s financial markets, this book is a financial primer that will be of special value to first-time investors, but also enlightening to everybody who currently has a personal investment portfolio. The author provides sound fundamental information in clear language that non-experts can understand. Separate chapters give practical advice on how to select a broker and open a brokerage account, and describe how the stock market operates. Readers learn how to cut through the jargon that fills annual reports and other financial statements. They will find clear explanations of mutual funds, stock options, an investor’s legal rights, the tax consequences of investing, market analysis, technical analysis, and much more. Here is information that every potential investor should have before opening an account.Customer Reviews:
The best way to explain it all........2007-02-12
It all fits together like never before!.......2002-07-07
This book has everything. It is perfect for somebody who has started to dabble in stocks and is looking to become a little more sophisticated.
I will read this book multiple times and keep it as a desk reference. Everything is so organized right where you need it! It even gives you a few sentences of background to give you a feel for why things are the way they are. It explains where things got their names from. It is a GOOD BOOK.
I would not recommend this book for a total novice. It might be a little too much. But for somebody who has seen all these terms banging around for a while, this clears stuff up so much.
The organization is amazing. It just all fits together like never before.
NICE BEGINNERS BOOK ON INVESTMENTS.......2001-06-12
Clear, easy to understand and extremely helpful.......2000-12-12
I made money.......2000-12-12
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The Inefficient Stock Market: What Pays Off and Why
Robert A. Haugen Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0139171649 |
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Sparked with wit and humor, this clever and insightful book provides clear evidence that the stock market is inefficient. In the author's view, models based on rational economic behavior cannot explain important aspects of market behavior. The book tackles important issues in today's financial market in a highly conversational and entertaining manner that will appeal to most readers. Chapter topics include: estimating expected return with the theories of modern finance, estimating portfolio risk and expected return with ad hoc factor models, payoffs to the five families, predicting future stock returns with the expected-return factor model, super stocks and stupid stocks, the international results, the topography of the stock market, the positive payoffs to cheapness and profitability, the negative payoff to risk, and the forces behind the technical payoffs to price-history. For anyone who wants to learn more about today's financial markets.Customer Reviews:
Good (if overpriced) little book.......2007-06-17
A Real Eye Opener.......2006-08-20
Good Analysis.......2003-06-07
He also provides an investment strategy of sorts that outperforms the S&P 500. All hedge fund managers should read this book.
Good accessible book on market inefficiencies........2001-12-17
For those who find it too down-market, he also has a weighty tome called "Modern Investment Theory" which is more thorough and more academic in tone. As an example, it describes how to combine Markowicz's techniques with factor models to exploit the inefficiencies more effectively than the approach suggested in 'What works on Wall St' etc.
Badly written book with lot of mistakes.......2001-09-10
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What Goes Up: The Uncensored History of Modern Wall Street as Told by the Bankers, Brokers, CEOs, and Scoundrels Who Made It Happen
Eric J. Weiner Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0316929662 |
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Fifty years ago, Wall Street was a hodgepodge of companieshundreds of themoperating in an environment where high-tech meant an electric typewriter and the Wasps and Jews never mixed. Today, Wall Street is controlled by a few massive firms and, it often seems, few ethical constraints. The tale of Wall Streets rise and transformation is one of the most exciting and important of our time. But amazingly, never before have the players who saw everythinglarge and small, from tycoons in limousines to the barber in the basement of the stock exchangedirectly told their stories. Here, at long last, are the Masters of the Universe and the con men; the backroom geniuses and the power-tie billionairesall in first person, uncensored, brash, bold, and often not so fond of one another. The result is the most vibrant business history published in years, perfect for anyone who wishes they had been a fly on the boardroom wall. Weiner interviewed everyone whos anyone for this oral history, including David Rockefeller, Arthur Levitt, Charles Schwab, Don Regan, Peter Lynch, Pete Peterson, Henry Kravis, George Roberts, Jerome Kohlberg, Steve Schwarzman, Dick Jenrette, Dan Lufkin, John Kenneth Galbraith, Stan ONeal, Harvey Pitt, T. Boone Pickens, John Whitehead, John Weinberg, Robert Baldwin, Dave Komansky, Jerry Tsai, John Gutfreundto name a few.Customer Reviews:
Interesting history from the primary sources.......2006-03-26
Wall Street revealed.......2006-02-01
As The Market World Turns..........2006-01-18
An excellent overview other coverages barely touch.......2006-01-06
If you can read no other book about wall st.... this is the one.......2005-12-30
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What Is an Exchange?: The Automation, Management, and Regulation of Financial Markets
Ruben Lee Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0198288409 |
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New technology has revolutionized the nature and threatened the existence of traditional stock and futures exchanges. This book analyses how they have responded to developments in automation, what strategies they should adopt, and whether their actions both are, and should be a matter of public concern. The operation and management of exchanges in the current competitive environment is studied. Three aspects of their role as providers of trading systems are examined: their governance structures, the way in which they compete and cooperate with each other, and their policies towards the dissemination of prices and quotes. The law and regulation affecting market structure, the governance and self-regulation of exchanges is then identified, interpreted, and evaluated. Finally, some policy recommendations concerning information and competition, and the classification and governance of exchanges are presented. The book applies knowledge, experience, and analytical techniques from the fields of business, economics, law, and regulation. Pre-publication endorsements `Ruben Lee's book provides an impressive analysis of exchanges using all the latest tools of economic theory. The book contains a wealth of interesting material about how exchanges are structured and the problems they face in a changing world. I recommend it very highly to anybody with a theoretical or practical interest in organizations.' Oliver Hart, Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Harvard University `The author contributes a most exhaustive compilation of definitions, functions, and structures of exchanges around the world, from a governance, management, and regulatory perspective. Technological change has made possible the globalization of trading, especially in financial products, and as a consequence the structures of exchanges have become more fluent. This book provides an important reference point on the recent development of exchanges.' Dr Rolf E. Breuer, Chairman of Deutsche Bank and Chairman of Deutsche Borse `Ruben Lee has long been a thoughtful student of securities trading markets. In What is an Exchange? he brings together years of careful research and analysis, extracting from that work many useful insights into the evolving relationship between technology, market structure, and regulation. In doing so he provides helpful guidance towards achieving the Jeffersonian ideal of a 'wise and frugal government' when it comes to striking a balance between regulation and market forces to meet the needs of investors and issuers.' Edward Waitzer, Partner, Stikeman Elliot; Former Chairman, Ontario Securities Commission; Former Chairman, Technical Committee, International Organisation of Securities Commissions. `I highly recommend Dr Ruben Lee's book. The analysis is an intellectual tour de force of the various issues surrounding the business, and regulation, or financial markets and professionals. Dr Lee combines organization theory, securities law, microeconomics, and information theory in order to separate the essential from the superficial. Moreover, as a former trader himself, his work reflects the institutional trading practices which are crucial to understanding markets. Finally, all of this erudition is placed within a global comparative framework. Indeed, even when I disagree with him, Dr Lee makes me think he might be right.' Brandon Becker, Partner, Wilmer, Culter and Pickering; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center; Former Director, Division of Marketing Regulation, U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission `Deregulation and technology is rapidly changing the nature and functioning of investment exchanges. Increasing competition forces what have long been protected national member-driven institutions to become professionally managed businesses. The trend among European exchanges is to demutualise, operate for profit and even strive for public listing. This comprehensive theoretical and empirical study covers a large number of relevant aspects on the ongoing structural changes of the investment exchange industry. The book is extremely valuable for all those concerned with the behaviour, organisation, management and regulation of exchanges now and in the coming years.' Bengt Ryden, Chairman of Stockholm Exchanges, Former President of the Federation International des Bourse de Valeurs (International Federation of Stock Exchanges)Book Description
Federal Taxation of Real Estate Exchanges is a crash course in the art of the deferred real estate exchange. Learn easy steps to sell old real estate and buy new without paying federal income taxes by using IRS safe-harbor exchange rules. It's the definitive guide to taxation of real estate exchanges for real estate investors and serious professionals who are seeking a growing sophistication and appreciation of how powerful the deferred exchange is in the fast changing world of real estate investments.Federal Taxation of Real Estate Exchanges was first born as a three-day continuing education seminar which author Rich Robinson wrote and taught to thousands of real estate agents, CPAs and investors from coast-to-coast. During this time Rich teamed up with real estate broker and Qualified Intermediary, Jim Maxwell. By combining Rich's years of experience as a CPA, writing and teaching federal taxation of real estate transactions and Jim's practical "street smart" knowledge and background in real estate exchanging, they created a new educational program presented at the National Association of Realtors® Annual Convention. This course is based on that highly successful program.
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Bull! : A History of the Boom, 1982-1999: What drove the Breakneck Market--and What Every Investor Needs to Know About Financial Cycles
Maggie Mahar Manufacturer: Collins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 006056413X Release Date: 2003-10-21 |
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In Bull!, Maggie Mahar tells the sweeping tale of the Great Bull Market of 1982-1999, a legendary run-up that pulled the entire nation into its gravitational field.
Mahar lays out the origins of the boom and takes the reader behind the scenes, on Wall Street, on Main Street, and in Washington, letting him see the story through the eyes of the fund managers, market gurus, analysts, politicians, business journalists, and 401(k) investors who, together, helped create the longest-running bull market in U.S. history. Some were touts; others were true believers. On the sidelines, a Greek Chorus of seasoned professionals tried, vainly, to describe the emperor's new clothes.
Filled with colorful portraits of many of the central figures of the boom years -- Alan Greenspan, Henry Blodget, James Cramer, Abby Joseph Cohen -- Bull! draws together a complex cast of characters, illuminating the web of relationships that kept the market aloft.
More than a financial history, Bull! is a lively, often witty social history of the stock market that became a part of popular culture. It is also the tale of individual investors, which chronicles the intimate stories of ordinary people -- housewives and college professors, salesmen and waitresses -- who got caught up in the excitement and then watched their life savings drain away.
How did it happen that the very real risks of investing in stocks were forgotten? Mahar explodes the myth of "stocks for the long run," explaining how the market's promoters crunched the numbers to create the illusion that if an investor stays in the casino just a little longer, he is guaranteed to come out a winner. Casting Warren Buffett in a new light, she explains how a value investor is, in the end, a long-term market timer who understands that success depends on how much you pay when you get into the market -- and when you get out. By putting the bull market of 1982-1999 in a larger historical context, she shows how, over time, longtime bull markets beget longtime bear markets.
The future defies prediction, but the history of financial markets makes one thing clear: markets always revert to a mean. Taken as a single story, Bull! is both an illuminating history and a cautionary tale about investing. Analyzing the economic and psychological forces that drive financial cycles, Mahar shows how an extraordinary influx of cash and credit, combined with the obsessive attention of a new financial media, created a cult of equities. Challenging the notion that stocks always outperform all other investments, she reveals why many of Wall Street's most experienced investors believe that the 21st-century investor needs to throw out the old rule book and make a new beginning as he plans for his financial future.
No investor should keep his or her money in the stock market without first reading this book.
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Get a glimpse of bull and bear markets.........2007-10-10
Mind-opening views of investment history.......2007-05-14
Insights into the market psyche.......2007-03-29
Wall St. doesn't have my best interest at heart???.......2006-04-10
Going against the Zebra herd on this one.......2005-12-07
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What's Up Brother? Moesha #5
Teresa Reed Manufacturer: Simon Spotlight Entertainment ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0671025929 |
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Who's this homey in Mo's home?Moesha's family is hosting an exchange student from South Africa. Mo can't wait to discuss world politics and literature with her very own African prince. But when Angaza arrives, he just wants to have fun -- American style. And Mo's girl Kim is leading the way.
Not for nothing, but this is Moesha's exchange student. Mo's gonna have to squash the houseguest blues -- before her best friend gets the best of her.
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UH OH!.......2005-04-24
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Why the Markets Went Crazy: And What It Means for Investors
Tim Lee Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1403918694 |
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Before the point of no return : an exchange of views on the Cold War, the Reagan doctrine, and what is to Come
Leon. Wofsy Manufacturer: Monthly Review Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000KU7OTU |
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