Taming The Sharks

Author : Christopher L. Peterson
Publisher : The University of Akron Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1931968098

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Taming the Sharks by Christopher L. Peterson Pdf

Taming the Sharks: Towards a Cure for the High Cost Credit Market chronicles the historic, economic. legal, and political factors breeding America's feverish high cost debt industry. The ideas presented are novel, progressive, and controversial. Historians have long argued that interest rates provide a sort of economic and political health of nations. If true, the contemporary American market for credit shows troubling signs of distress. While Federal Reserve Board monetary policy has kept commercial and prime consumer interest rates low, the past two decades have seen explosive growth in an industry specializing in high-cost consumer debt. Payday loan outlet chains, automobile title loan companies, rent-to-own furniture stores, pawnshops, and sub-prime and manufactured home mortgage lenders are transforming the personal finance patterns of millions of Americans. Many observers have complained this industry charges excessive prices, uses unfair business practices, and is generally causing more harm for its borrowers than good. Industry insiders retort they are merely responding to a legitimate demand for financial services that, in effect, consumers vote with their feet. Echoing problems of past centuries, today's consumers face difficulty comparing credit prices, patterns of reckless lending and borrowing, as well as distressing economic externalities. With an idea on the future, Peterson's book hopes to find ingredients of a compromise to protect working-poor borrowers while simultaneously preserving economic competition.

Author : Philip Shu-Ying Cheng
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118550427

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Taming the Money Sharks by Philip Shu-Ying Cheng Pdf

Easy-to-follow guidelines from a pro for simplifying your investments, protecting yourself from the investment sharks and achieving financial freedom Drawing on his years as an investor for leading banks in the U.S. and Asia, Philip Cheng delivers down-to-earth strategies guaranteed to make you "shark-proof" while you optimize investment returns. Statistics show that only 20% of small investors ever come close to achieving their investment goals. The other 80% get eaten alive by "investment sharks"—investment advisors, fund managers and other hucksters out to line their pockets with your hard-earned cash. Motivated by a sense of fair play, Cheng resolved to write an investor's survival guide in which he'd share everything he's learned in his years as a successful professional investor. The result is Taming the Money Sharks. The easy-to-follow guidelines you'll find in this book will help you navigate the shark-infested waters of the investment world, all the way to the financial freedom you dream of and deserve. A must-have survival guide for novice investors, and a source of fresh thinking and innovative strategies for experienced investors Features many illustrations, summaries, charts, real-world examples along with other powerful tools to help you avoid common mistakes and win at the investment game Lays out 8 proven strategies for investing systematically and surviving and thriving in the shark-infested waters of the stock market

Author : Christopher L. Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Consumer credit
ISBN : 162922023X

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Taming the Sharks by Christopher L. Peterson Pdf

Author : Nick Rebman
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781641851589

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Sharks by Nick Rebman Pdf

Introduces readers to the lives of sharks. Simple text and colorful spreads make this book a perfect starting point for early readers.

Author : Jeffrey C. Carrier,Colin A. Simpfendorfer,Michael R. Heithaus,Kara E. Yopak
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000542066

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Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives by Jeffrey C. Carrier,Colin A. Simpfendorfer,Michael R. Heithaus,Kara E. Yopak Pdf

Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives is an award-winning and groundbreaking exploration of the fundamental elements of the taxonomy, systematics, physiology, and ecology of sharks, skates, rays, and chimera. This edition presents current research as well as traditional models, to provide future researchers with solid historical foundations in shark research as well as presenting current trends from which to develop new frontiers in their own work. Traditional areas of study such as age and growth, reproduction, taxonomy and systematics, sensory biology, and ecology are updated with contemporary research that incorporates emerging techniques including molecular genetics, exploratory techniques in artificial insemination, and the rapidly expanding fields of satellite tracking, remote sensing, accelerometry, and imaging. With two new editors and 90 contributors from the US, UK, South Africa, Portugal, France, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, India, Palau, United Arab Emirates, Micronesia, Sweden, Argentina, Indonesia, Cameroon, and the Netherlands, this third edition is the most global and comprehensive yet. It adds six new chapters representing extensive studies of health, stress, disease and pathology, and social structure, and continues to explore elasmobranch ecological roles and interactions with their habitats. The book concludes with a comprehensive review of conservation policies, management, and strategies, as well as consideration of the potential effects of impending climate change. Presenting cohesive and integrated coverage of key topics and discussing technological advances used in modern shark research, this revised edition offers a well-rounded picture for students and researchers.

Author : Mary M. Cerullo
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756554699

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Journey to Shark Island by Mary M. Cerullo Pdf

The light was too dim to get a good shot without using the flash. He turned on his strobe. The high pitched whine drove the sharks into a frenzy. They began to ram the divers with their snouts. It was the closest the divers had ever come to being shark bait. Follow photographer Jeff Rotmans diving team into the shark-infested waters of Cocos Island to discover sharks' secrets, and perhaps to save their lives.

Author : Peter Benchley
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780307545749

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Shark Life by Peter Benchley Pdf

From the bestselling author of Jaws comes a firsthand guide to one of the most feared—and often misunderstood—animals: sharks! In direct and accessible prose, Peter Benchley sets the record straight about the many types of sharks (including the ones that pose a genuine threat to us), the behavior of sharks and other sea creatures we fear, the odds against an attack, and how to improve them even further. He also teaches us how to swim safely in the ocean by reading the tides and currents and respecting all the inhabitants. Here are the lessons Peter has learned, the mistakes he has made, the danger he has faced—and the spectacular sights he has seen in the world’s largest environment. The book includes 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.

Author : Dr. Diana Prince
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781546267881

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Book of Sharks by Dr. Diana Prince Pdf

Book of Sharks explores the amazing fish known as the shark. It is one of the world’s most fascinating and feared creatures. Legends and myths about these unique animals have persisted since the beginning of time. This book introduces young people to the vital role of sharks in the ecosystem and their many types and variations. Research and observations paint a picture of an endangered species being hunted, almost to extinction in some places, to simply use their fins as a food delicacy. This book explores both the facts and the myths about this unique creature.

Author : Anne Fleming
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674982055

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City of Debtors by Anne Fleming Pdf

Since the 1890s, people on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder in the U.S. have paid the highest price for credit. Anne Fleming tells how each generation has tackled the problem of fringe finance and its regulation. Her detailed work contributes to the broader, ongoing debate about the meaning of justice within capitalistic societies.

Author : D. Marron
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230101517

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Consumer Credit in the United States by D. Marron Pdf

It is commonly imagined that in recent years the rampant growth of consumer credit has lured American consumers into a crippling state of indebtedness, a state that has upended old cultural values of Puritan thrift and stimulated a frenzy of consumption. Drawing on the sociological concept of government and informed by a historical perspective, Marron presents a much more complex and nuanced reality. From its early antecedents in nineteenth century salary lending and instalment selling, she shows how the emergence and growth of consumer credit in the United States have always been subject to shifting regimes of control and regulation.

Author : Johanna Niemi,Iain Ramsay,William C. Whitford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847315229

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Consumer Credit, Debt and Bankruptcy by Johanna Niemi,Iain Ramsay,William C. Whitford Pdf

After a long period of prosperity and steady economic growth, the world's leading economies are now in crisis, and although there will be debate about its origins, the scale and seriousness of the crisis is in no doubt. There is also no doubt that excessive amounts of consumer credit, allied to a weak understanding of how globalised credit markets might react to a crisis, have played a significant part. This book, which is primarily about credit, debt and the trouble they have led to, is written by authors who have specialised in researching into over-indebtedness, that is, situations in which an individual's debt burden has become overwhelming. For these authors the plight of individuals is a primary concern, but the wider issue is how credit is used and how it changes societies. The essays in this volume, addressing topics which are fundamental to our understanding of the current crisis, range widely across the whole sector of consumer finance, including mortgages, 'credit-binges', the regulation of consumer lending, insolvency, repayment plans, debt counselling and much more besides. The conclusions drawn from the book are equally wide-ranging, but above all the lesson learned from these essays is that the financialisation of contemporary life ensures that issues of the appropriate role of credit remain of critical importance in society.

Author : Colleen Sexton
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612111582

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Sharks by Colleen Sexton Pdf

Sharks are known as nature's fiercest ocean predators. Wherever they are, danger is lurking! This book introduces children to the characteristics and hunting methods of sharks.

Author : Catriona Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Picture books
ISBN : 0545033071

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Sharks by Catriona Clarke Pdf

Fun facts in this shark-infested book.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Alok Toppo
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789811174872

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Merlions and Mermaids - Protectors of Singapore by Anonim Pdf

Twelve year old Ryan thinks he is going insane. He's started seeing a lion’s face when he looks at himself at night in his bathroom mirror, he can swim real fast and even understand killer whales. Just when he thinks he couldn’t go any crazier two well-dressed school counsellors come to his home. They tell him that he isn’t crazy…just beginning his transformation into a Merlion - a Protector of Singapore. Soon he learns that he isn’t alone and that Merlions like him attend school and that too with Mermaids at an ultra-cool school called Sentosa Waterfort High School. The school brings Ryan friendship and dangerous adventures with sharks, drones, artificial intelligence systems all thrown together with his new friends as they work to uncover the mystery of the missing Crimson Ruby. All this is leading him to embrace his true destiny.... a Protector.

Author : Erica S. Perl
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780525578796

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Truth or Lie: Sharks! by Erica S. Perl Pdf

Shark lovers will enjoy hunting down the TRUTH about their favorite ocean predators in this innovative new Science Reader series. Baby sharks are toothless at first, right? That's a LIE! The TRUTH is, sharks are born with a mouthful of teeth to protect themselves and hunt right away. Though this engaging early reader is 100% fun, 25% of it is FALSE! In a unique question-and-answer format, proficient readers are quizzed about their favorite ocean predators to see if they can separate facts from "lies." The book's mascot--the Truth Sleuth--guides readers through this funny and fact-packed Step 3 Reader, filled with photos of sharks in action, as well as kid-appealing art and humor. Step 3 Readers feature engaging characters in easy-to-follow plots about popular topics, for children who are ready to read on their own.