"Capital Ideas traces the origins of modern Wall Street, from the pioneering work of early scholars and the development of new theories in risk, valuation, and investment returns, to the actual implementation of these theories in the real world of investment management. Starting…
Restores women to their place in the story of England's Financial Revolution: as active participants in London's first stock market in the 1690s, women invested for themselves and their families, meaning that women's capital was a critical component of Britain's rise to economic…
This is the comprehensive story of Texas International Inc., a small domestic oil and gas company that needed new capital resources for growth. It turned to Drexel Burnham Lambert and Michael Milken who engineered the first junk bond issue for this company at high interest rates…
Rigged financial markets and hopeless under-regulation on Wall Street are not new problems. In this book, Susanne Trimbath gives a sobering account of naked short selling, the failure to settle, and her efforts over decades to get this fixed. Twenty-five years ago, Trimbath was …
"Rigged financial markets and hopeless under-regulation on Wall Street are not new problems. In this book, Susanne Trimbath gives a sobering account of naked short selling, the failure to settle, and her efforts over decades to get this fixed. Twenty-five years ago, Trimbath was…
Follows the career of counterfeit stock broker Louis Pasciuto, tracing his illegal activities on behalf of the mafia in seventeen different brokerage houses and his eventual cooperation with the state in order to avoid prison.