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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Theft by deception — Competition in laxity — The most unlikely of heroes — Keating’s unholy war against the bank board — The Texas control frauds enlist Jim Wright — The Faustian bargain — The miracles, the massacre, and the speaker’s fall — M. Danny Wall : child of the senate — Final surrender : Wall takes up Neville Chamberlain’s umbrella — It’s the things you do know, but aren’t so, that cause disasters.

Subjects:

• Savings and loan associations — Corrupt practices — United States.
• Savings and loan association failures — United States.
• Savings and Loan Bailout, 1989-1995.
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155

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• Includes index.
• Stocks and their value. Firm foundations and castles in the air The madness of crowds Speculative bubbles from the Sixties into the Nineties The explosive bubbles of the early 2000s — How the pros play the biggest game in town. Technical and fundamental analysis Technical analysis and the random-walk theory How good is fundamental analysis? The efficient-market hypothesis — The new investment technology. A new walking shoe: modern portfolio theory Reaping reward by increasing risk Behavioral finance Is smart beta really smart? — A practical guide for random walkers and other investors. A fitness manual for random walkers and other investors Handicapping the financial race: a primer in understanding and projecting returns from stocks and bonds A life-cycle guide to investing Three giant steps down Wall Street.
• Newly revised and updated with information on exchange-traded funds and investment opportunities in emerging markets, a trusted investment guide is filled with core insights and expert advice on stocks, bonds, money markets, real estate investment trusts, home ownership and more. –Publisher’s description.

Subjects:

• Investments.
• Stocks.
• Random walks (Mathematics)

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• Private equity: investors as managers — Institutional change and the emergence of private equity — The business model: how private equity makes money — The effects of the financial crisis, 2008 to 2012 — The middle market, increasing focus after the crisis — How well do private equity funds perform? — Private equity’s effects on jobs and labor — Dilemmas for pension funds as limited partners — Regulating private equity.

Subjects:

• Private equity — United States.
• Business enterprises — United States — Finance.
• Industrial management — United States.

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• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Preface / Dr. Herukhuti (H. Sharif Williams) — Introduction / Robyn Ochs and Dr. Herukhuti (H. Sharif Williams) — Two peas in a pod : letter from a bisexual son to his bisexual dad / Abilly S. Jones — I am / Anonymous — Say it loud, I’m a black bisexual male and I’m proud / Rodney McGruder Brown — Me, myself and bi / Ben Atherton-Zeman — Unconventional / Joshua Turner — Genderfuzz, or how I learned to stop worrying and love bisexuality / Ron J. Suresha — Why it matters / Gregory Lindon Smith — Notes from a unicorn / Seth Fischer — For some reason / Josiah Harris-Adam — Labels / Ian Wilson — Speak on it / Joshua Hutchinson — Ocean’s of love letter : is one black man loving another man the revolutionary act of the twenty-first century? / Dr. Herukhuti (H. Sharif Williams) — This bi phase / Josh Bergeleen — Ambidextrous in a righty world / Kye B. — With my feet in several worlds / Victor Raymond — Why I still go to pride events / Justin Cascio — Trade / Cedric Maurice — The queen / Derrick Rice — Cooking from scratch : learning queer from the kid’s menu / Andrew Salman — Cooking longer than others / James Donald Ross — The gift / Rich Conrad — Energy can never by destroyed — Mitch Kellaway — The right to confusion / Declan Wiffen.
• Greedy / Samati Niyomchai — Safe spaces / Andres Musta — A day at the free clinic / Dr. Herukhuti (H. Sharif Williams) — Hot, safe, fun / William E. Burleson — Scientific research on bisexual men : what do we know, and why don’t we know more? / Brian Dodge — We can be heroes / Mitchell Plitnick — The audacity of black bisexual life : Kuwasi Bulagoon as queer Panther / Kazeme Balagun — Skydiving without a parachute / David Houston — That boy’z cute / James Hawkins Howard — Of anger and empowerment / Matt Slade — Fictions of purity / Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé — M(aaf) (do you figure??) / Juba Kalamka — Kink and violence / Richard M. Juang — III / Anton Petterson — More fully / James Hawkins Howard — Female parts / Richard M. Juang — Phallocentrism and bisexualinvisibility / Miki R. — Ambi (righthand) / Juba Kalamka — Reactor / Zane Hannan — Some reflections / Diego D. — People of the book / Muhammad Ali Mendha — Being a bi pastor in the Bible Belt / James Semmelroth Darnell — No longer letting life pass me bi / Travon Free — Being a pansoul / Olorin.
• Journeys over time / James Donald Ross — Tripping out / Cameron Kude — Aventuras! / Glenn Shiflett — The heart as a foreign country / Andrew Milnes — Coming home to myself / Big Sky Bi — Journey to — Muhammad Ali Mendha — Conversations with parents / L. Ramki Ramakrishnan — A la mode de Kahlo : the lovers / D. Dolnick — Wonder / Justin Adkins — In the direction of greatest courage / Erik Moore — In the dark / David B. — My kind of bi / Silenus Zarkoff — I wanna be in the middle / Dan Barry — Floating / D. Dolnick — The worst feeling / Forbidden Light — Speaking my truth, even as my voice shakes / Nate Taylor — Rules / Richard M. Juang — Offworlder / Polyhedon — Mapping sexual orientation / Robyn Ochs — A bisexual Q & A : Robyn Ochs interviews Aleta Baldwin, M.A. Jessamyn Bowling, M.P.H. and Brian Dodge, Ph.D. / Robyn Ochs — Understanding biphobia / Robyn Ochs — Resources for mixed-orientation marriages / Betti Schleyer — Selected online resources — Recent publications by the editors — So many words : a glossary — About the artists and artwork in this anthology — Index.

Subjects:

• Bisexuality — United States.
• Bisexuals — Political activity — United States.

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Subjects:

• Finance, Personal.
• Investments.

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Part of the series The entrepreneur’s guide;Entrepreneur’s guide (Westport, Conn.)
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-264) and index.
• Part 1. The income statement. Income statement basics — Revenue — Expenses and profits — Making a P&L work for you — Part 2. The balance sheet. Balance sheet basics — How a P&L and a balance sheet work together — Games people play by manipulating the balance sheet and P&L — Equity and capitalization — Part 3. The cash flow statement. Cash flow statement basics — The cash cycle — Part 4. Ratios and analysis. Answering questions using trends and ratios — Analysis in action — How bankers and investors evaluate a business — Part 5. Managing by the numbers. Dashboards — Models, forecasts, and budgets.
• Like a detailed trail map through the jungle of finance, this book guides readers past small-business financial pitfalls, showing readers how to fine-tune operations and enhance profitability — Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• Small business — Finance.
• Financial statements.

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• Currency areas, exchange rate systems, and international monetary reform / Robert Mundell — Unofficial dollarization in Latin America : currency substitution, network externalities, and irreversibility / Edgar L. Feige … [et al.] — The pros and cons of full dollarization / Andrew Berg and Eduardo R. Borensztein — Is it time for a common currency for the Americas? / Vittorio Corbo — Dollarization : myths and realities / Sebastian Edwards — What problems can dollarization solve? / Barry Eichengreen — What use is monetary sovereignty? / Kurt Schuler — The OCA approach to exchange rate regimes : a perspective on recent developments / Thomas D. Willett — Dollarization does not make sense everywhere / John Williamson — The problem of dollar encroachment in emerging markets / Ronald I. McKinnon — Which countries in the Americas should dollarize? / Dominick Salvatore — Pressures for currency consolidation in insurance and finance : are the currencies of financially small countries on the endangered list? / George M. von Furstenberg — Monetary union : the political dimension / Benjamin J. Cohen — Latin American official dollarization : political economy aspects / Jürgen Schuldt — The political economy of dollarization in Mexico / Nancy Neiman Auerback and Aldo Flores-Quiroga — Lessons of the Euro for dollarization : analytic and political economy perspectives / Harris Dellas and George S. Tavlas — North American currency integration : a Canadian perspective / Thomas J. Courchene and Richard G. Harris — The merit of a North American monetary union / Herbert G. Grubel — Why Canada needs a flexible exchange rate / John D. Murray — Should Latin America’s common-law marriage to the U.S. dollar be legalized? Should Canada’s? / James W. Dean — What exchange rate arrangement works best for Latin America? / Liliana Rojas-Suarez — A dollarization/free-banking blueprint for Argentina / Steven H. Hanke — Argentina’s currency board and the case for macroeconomic policy coordination in Mercosur / Jos{u00E

Subjects:

• Money.
• Dollar, American.
• Foreign exchange.
• Currency question.
• International finance.

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• 1. Corporate governance — 2. Corporate financing : some stylized facts — 3. Corporate financing and agency costs — 4. Some determinants of borrowing capacity — 5. Liquidity and risk management, free cash flow, and long-term finance — 6. Corporate financing under asymmetric information — 7. Topics : product markets and earnings manipulations — 8. Investors and voice : passive and active monitoring — 9. Leading relationships and investor activism — 10. Control rights and corporate governance — 11. Takeovers — 12. Consumer liquidity demand — 13. Credit rationing and economic activity — 14. Mergers and acquisitions, and the equilibrium determination of asset values — 15. Aggregate liquidity shortages and liquidity asset pricing — 16. Institutions, public policy, and the political economy of finance.
• The Theory of Corporate Finance is a resource for graduate for graduate and advanced undergraduate students as well as researchers of corporate finance, industrial organization, political economy, development, and macroeconomics. Jean Tirole conveys the organizing principles that structure the analysis of today’s key management and public policy issues, such as the reform of corporate governance and auditing the role of private equity, financial markets, and takeovers the efficient determination of leverage, dividends, liquidity, and risk management and the design of managerial incentive packages. He weaves empirical studies into the book’s theoretical analysis. And he places the corporation in its broader environment, both microeconomic and macroeconomic, and examines the two-way interaction between the corporate environment and institutions. –BOOK JACKET.

Subjects:

• Corporations — Finance.
• Business enterprises — Finance.
• Corporate governance.

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• Beginnings — Disaster: Goldman Sachs Trading Corporation — The long road back — Ford: the largest IPO — Transition years — Gus Levy — The wreck of the Penn Central — Getting great at selling — Block trading: the risky business that roared — Revolution in investment banking — Principles — The two Johns — Bonds: the early years — Figuring out private client services — J. Aron: ugly duckling — Tender defense, a magic carpet — The uses and abuses of research — John Weinberg — Innocents abroad — Breaking and entering — How BP almost became a dry hole — Changing the guard — Transformation — False starts in investment management — Robert Maxwell, the client from hell — Making arbitrage a business — J’accuse — Building a global business — Steve quit! — Collecting the best — Jon Corzine — Long-term capital management — Coup — Getting investment management right — Paulson’s disciplines — Lloyd Blankfein, risk manager.
• With unparalleled access to the firm’s leadership, Ellis chronicles the brilliant individuals who built one of the world’s largest investment banks.

Subjects:

• Goldman, Sachs & Co.
• Investment banking — United States.

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• Text in English translated from French.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-168) and index.

Subjects:

• Money — Europe — History — To 1500.
• Civilization, Medieval.
• Economische geschiedenis. gtt
• Geld. gtt
• Europa (geografie) gtt
• Civilization, Medieval. fast (OCoLC)fst00863049
• Money. fast (OCoLC)fst01025265
• Europe. fast (OCoLC)fst01245064
• To 1500 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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