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Author : Forrest McDonald
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781587982439
This is a reprint of a previosly published work. It dewals with Samuel Insull, who was Thomas Edison's private secretary and founded the business of centralized electric supply. He organized the Edison General Electric Company.
Author : United States. Federal Trade Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1962 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044032285777
Author : Jeremiah D. Lambert
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262029506
How the interplay between government regulation and the private sector has shaped the electric industry, from its nineteenth-century origins to twenty-first-century market restructuring. For more than a century, the interplay between private, investor-owned electric utilities and government regulators has shaped the electric power industry in the United States. Provision of an essential service to largely dependent consumers invited government oversight and ever more sophisticated market intervention. The industry has sought to manage, co-opt, and profit from government regulation. In The Power Brokers, Jeremiah Lambert maps this complex interaction from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Lambert's narrative focuses on seven important industry players: Samuel Insull, the principal industry architect and prime mover; David Lilienthal, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), who waged a desperate battle for market share; Don Hodel, who presided over the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) in its failed attempt to launch a multi-plant nuclear power program; Paul Joskow, the MIT economics professor who foresaw a restructured and competitive electric power industry; Enron's Ken Lay, master of political influence and market-rigging; Amory Lovins, a pioneer proponent of sustainable power; and Jim Rogers, head of Duke Energy, a giant coal-fired utility threatened by decarbonization. Lambert tells how Insull built an empire in a regulatory vacuum, and how the government entered the electricity marketplace by making cheap hydropower available through the TVA. He describes the failed overreach of the BPA, the rise of competitive electricity markets, Enron's market manipulation, Lovins's radical vision of a decentralized industry powered by renewables, and Rogers's remarkable effort to influence cap-and-trade legislation. Lambert shows how the power industry has sought to use regulatory change to preserve or secure market dominance and how rogue players have gamed imperfectly restructured electricity markets. Integrating regulation and competition in this industry has proven a difficult experiment.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Stock exchanges
ISBN : LOC:00019921232
Author : Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Banking law
ISBN : 9780190260705
Banks were allowed to enter securities markets and become universal banks during two periods in the past century - the 1920s and the late 1990s. Both times the ensuing unsustainable booms led to destructive busts - the Great Depression of the early 1930s and the Global Financial Crisis of2007-09. Both times, universal banks made high-risk loans and packaged them into securities that were sold as safe investments to poorly-informed investors. Both times, governments were forced to arrange costly bailouts.Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 in response to the Great Depression. The Act broke up universal banks and established a decentralized financial system composed of three separate and independent sectors: banking, securities, and insurance. That system was stable and successful for overfour decades until the big-bank lobby persuaded regulators to open loopholes in Glass-Steagall during the 1980s and convinced Congress to repeal it in 1999.In Taming the Megabanks, Arthur Wilmarth, Jr. argues that we must separate banks from securities markets again to avoid another devastating financial crisis and ensure that our financial system serves Main Street business firms and consumers instead of Wall Street bankers and speculators. Wilmarth'scomprehensive and detailed analysis of the roles played by universal banks in the two worst financial catastrophes of the past century demonstrates that a new Glass-Steagall Act would make our financial system much more stable and less likely to produce boom-and-bust cycles. And giant universalbanks would no longer dominate our financial system or receive enormous subsidies.Congress did not adopt a new Glass-Steagall Act after the Global Financial Crisis. Instead, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act. Dodd-Frank's highly technical reforms tried to make banks safer but left the dangerous universal banking system in place. Universal banks continue to pose unacceptablerisks to financial stability and economic and social welfare. They exert far too much influence over our political and regulatory systems because of their immense size and their undeniable "too-big-to-fail" status.Taming the Megabanks forcefully makes the case for a a new Glass-Steagall Act to break up universal banks. A more decentralized and competitive system of independent banks and securities firms would not only provide better service to Main Street businesses and ordinary consumers but also bringstability to a volatile financial system.
Author : William Carryl Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89015067705
Author : Thomas A. Edison
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781421400907
Gathers sketches, notebook entries, letters, articles, patent information, and financial papers from the beginning of Edison's career as an inventor
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating Expenditures in Senatorial Primary and General Elections
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1956 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015039676591
Author : Scott B. MacDonald,Jane Elizabeth Hughes
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0765803569
What do Michael Milken and Martha Stewart have in common? (Answer: Both became public scapegoats for an outrageous era of greed and excess.) What was the most outrageous party thrown by a financial baron of the twentieth century? (Answer: Tough call, but either Michael Milken's Predators Ball in 1985, or Dennis Kozlowski's Sardinian birthday bash in 2001, with its vodka-spouting sculpture.) Which U.S. war hero president became party to, and victim of, an unabashed con man known as the Napoleon of Wall Street? (Answer: Ulysses S. Grant, but it's a long story.) These questions and more are discussed in Scott MacDonald and Jane Hughes' Separating Fools from Their Money. The authors trace the history of financial scandals from the early days of the young republic through the Enron/WorldCom debacle of modern times. A host of colorful characters inhabit the pages of this history, revealing human nature in all of its dubious shades of gray. At the same time, the book exposes themes common to all financial scandals, which remain astonishingly unchanged over more than two centuries--greed, hubris, media connections, self-interested politicians, and booms-gone-bust, to name a few. Informative and entertaining, Separating Fools should engage the interest of investors and casual business readers, as well as economists interested in supplemental reading for their students.
Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996-08-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780684824475
Biography of Chicago criminal Al Capone discussing his life, criminal activity, the complex personality of the man, and the Prohibition era.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating Expenditures in Senatorial Primary and General Elections
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Campaign funds
ISBN : MINN:31951D035243355
Author : Richard F. Hirsh
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781421443621
"Challenging traditional scholarship on the New Deal, the book reinterprets the history of rural electrification. It tells the previously unacknowledged story of how private power companies, with allies in land-grant universities, engendered social and technical innovations in the 1920s and early 1930s that enabled growing numbers of farmers to obtain electrical service, well before the creation of Depression-era government programs"--
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating Expenditures in Senatorial Primary and General Elections
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Campaign funds
ISBN : UCBK:C059084070
Author : Richard Cahan
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810119819
A revealing account of the court that put Chicago in the headlines
Author : United States. Board of Tax Appeals
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1512 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:39015076044273