The Money Changers

Author : Arthur Hailey
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480490031

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The #1 bestselling author of the blockbuster thrillers Airport and Hotel takes on the world of high finance: “Cliched, lurid and utterly absorbing” (Philip Hensher, The Guardian). Ben Roselli, president of First Mercantile American Bank and grandson of the founder, makes the shocking announcement that he’s dying. With no offspring to inherit the company, Roselli knows that executive VPs Roscoe Heyward and Alex Vandervoort are the obvious candidates to succeed him. Heyward, who has been with First Mercantile for two decades, will do whatever it takes to bring in new clients and win the coveted presidency. Vandervoort, a newcomer from the Federal Reserve with a left-wing girlfriend, advocates for a socially responsible plan of growth. And now the discovery of counterfeit cash and credit card fraud threatens the future of the bank itself. From the day-to-day business dealings to the inner sanctums of the money trading center and the boardroom, Hailey’s novel is a riveting tale of ambition, greed, and the US banking system.

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486121963

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Originally published in 1908, this cautionary novel from the author of The Jungle explores corruption within the American system as a group of power brokers joins forces for personal gain, triggering a crash on Wall Street.

Author : Robert G. Williams
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781848137363

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At almost $2 trillion per day in trades, currency markets vitally link the world together. Yet few people understand how they work and why they are prone to instability and bouts of panic. This book takes the reader behind the scenes on a tour of the places, the machines, the circuitry and the people involved in moving world money. This journey begins as a traveler removes foreign currency from an ATM machine in Istanbul. The author guides us from the periphery of the market into its neural centers in financial hubs such as London and New York. Currency traders, market analysts, money managers and payments systems architects show their workplaces and reveal their day-to-day experiences in this unpredictable and rapidly evolving world. The experts interviewed may use unfamiliar terms, but the logical progression of the chapters and participants' stories told in workplace settings bring abstract concepts down to earth. After completing the tour, the reader will have a clear picture of the geographical and structural organization of global currency markets and the people who run them. This vision of a volatile, evolving structure will provide a useful framework for deciphering the complex causes of yet unforeseen financial events.

Author : Ferdinand Pecora
Publisher : Graymalkin Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631680069

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Wall Street Under Oath: The Story of Our Modern Money Changers by Ferdinand Pecora Pdf

Ferdinand Pecora investigated with ruthlessly abandon the nation’s most influential bankers and stockbrokers to determine what caused the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which in turn led to the Great Depression. Pecora, as Chief Counsel of Senate launched investigation, shined a vivid light on the shocking practices, deception, and lack of ethics that permeated Wall Street from the bottom to the highest echelons of power. Wall Street’s major players thought they were untouchable masters of their domain, but in the hot seat of the witness chair, eye-to-eye with Pecora, they were no match and fell like dominoes. The mighty J. P. Morgan was forced to admit he and many of his partners hadn’t paid any income taxes in the previous two years and his reputation was tarnished. Pecora’s expose of the practices of National City Bank (now Citibank) made banner headlines and caused the bank’s president to resign. Pecora Wall Street Under Oath in easy to understand language because he was afraid the public might get forgetful. And he was right. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the 2008 “Great Recession” was actually worse than the Great Depression. Clearly, we need to stay vigilant with a refresher course from Ferdinand Pecora. First published in 1939, this classic book is as relevant today as it was then – because on Wall Street, greed is always in style.

Author : Paula Fredriksen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300240740

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When Christians Were Jews by Paula Fredriksen Pdf

A compelling account of Christianity’s Jewish beginnings, from one of the world’s leading scholars of ancient religion How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jesus’s prophecy—“The Kingdom of God is at hand!”—they were, in their own eyes, history's last generation. But in history's eyes, they became the first Christians. In this electrifying social and intellectual history, Paula Fredriksen answers this question by reconstructing the life of the earliest Jerusalem community. As her account arcs from this group’s hopeful celebration of Passover with Jesus, through their bitter controversies that fragmented the movement’s midcentury missions, to the city’s fiery end in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, she brings this vibrant apostolic community to life. Fredriksen offers a vivid portrait both of this temple-centered messianic movement and of the bedrock convictions that animated and sustained it.

Author : Sarah Reckhow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780199937738

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Follow the Money by Sarah Reckhow Pdf

Some of the nation's wealthiest philanthropies, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, and the Broad Foundation have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in education reform. With vast wealth and a political agenda, these foundations have helped to reshape the reform landscape in urban education. In Follow the Money, Sarah Reckhow shows where and how foundation investment in education is occurring and presents in-depth analysis of the effects of these investments within the two largest urban districts in the United States: New York City and Los Angeles. In New York City, centralized political control and the use of private resources have enabled rapid implementation of reform proposals. Yet this potent combination of top-down authority and outside funding also poses serious questions about transparency, responsiveness, and democratic accountability in New York. Furthermore, the sustainability of reform policies is closely linked to the political fortunes of the current mayor and his chosen school leader. While the media has highlighted the efforts of drastic reformers and dominating leaders such as Joel Klein in New York City and Michelle Rhee in Washington, D.C., a slower, but possibly more transformative, set of reforms have been taking place in Los Angeles. These reforms were also funded and shaped by major foundations, but they work from the bottom up, through charter school operators managing networks of schools. This strategy has built grassroots political momentum and demand for reform in Los Angeles that is unmatched in New York City and other districts with mayoral control. Reckhow's study of Los Angeles's education system shows how democratically responsive urban school reform could occur-pairing foundation investment with broad grassroots involvement. Bringing a sharp analytical eye and a wealth of evidence to one of the most politicized issues of our day, Follow the Money will reshape our thinking about educational reform in America.

Author : Tracey Friesen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317508236

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Story Money Impact: Funding Media for Social Change by Tracey Friesen Pdf

Story Money Impact: Funding Media for Social Change by Tracey Friesen is a practical guide for media-makers, funders, and activists who share the common goal of creating an impact with their work. Today, social-issues storytellers are sharpening their craft, while funders with finite resources focus on reach, and strategic innovators bring more robust evaluation tools. Friesen illuminates the spark at the core of these three pursuits. Structured around stories from the front lines, Story Money Impact reveals best practices in the areas of documentary, digital content, and independent journalism. Here you will find: • Twenty-one stories from people behind such powerful works as CITIZENFOUR, The Corporation, Virunga, Being Caribou, Age of Stupid, and Food Inc. • Six key story ingredients for creating compelling content. • Six possible money sources for financing your work. • Six impact outcome goals to further your reach. • Seven practical worksheets for your own projects. • A companion website located at www.storymoneyimpact.com containing up-to-date information for those seeking the tools and inspiration to use media for social change.

Author : David Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134208135

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Since money was invented, there has been a debate about better ways of creating it and better rules to govern how it works - until the last generation, when it began to seem that the money system had been handed down by God and remained unchanged ever since. But the last few years have seen an increasingly powerful resurgence of interest in changing the system fundamentally, and bringing the monetary trends that affect all our lives under our control. Few realize that the debate has roots and a tradition, covering mainstream economists like Keynes and Hayek, statesmen like Lincoln, entrepreneurs like Ford and Soros, as well as the imaginative mavericks behind local currencies and e-money. This volume collects together some of their most influential writings to provide a handbook on a vital train of ideas, and a guide to a debate on changing money that is becoming increasingly important.

Author : Arthur Hailey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1256534469

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Money Changers by Arthur Hailey Pdf

Author : Arthur Hailey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Moneychangers by Arthur Hailey Pdf

Author : Arthur Hailey
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480490024

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Wheels by Arthur Hailey Pdf

Master storyteller Arthur Hailey’s #1 New York Times bestseller is a turbocharged thriller about America’s automobile industry, from the bottom up Ford. Chrysler. General Motors. They were the Big Three, accused by critics of greed, monopoly, and abusing the public trust. In the shadows of these towering giants is American Motors, blazing its own path to greatness. Adam Trenton, the fiercely ambitious executive in charge of project development, wants to take the company into the future with the new, cutting-edge car he’s developing, but his single-minded dedication has his neglected wife seeking dangerous thrills, making Adam vulnerable to a growing web of deceit, blackmail, and organized crime. From Detroit’s inner city to its affluent suburbs, from the executive suites and secret design studios to the assembly line jungle and the maximum security testing grounds, Wheels is a breakneck ride full of human drama through one of America’s most complex and competitive industries.

Author : William Stanley Jevons
Publisher : New York : D. Appleton, c[1875]
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Exchange
ISBN : UOM:39015068335374

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Money and the Mechanism of Exchange by William Stanley Jevons Pdf

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Author : M.V. Lee Badgett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226034011

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Money, Myths, and Change by M.V. Lee Badgett Pdf

How does the standard of living of gay men and lesbians compare with that of heterosexuals? Do homosexuals make financial and family decisions differently? Why are the professional lives of gay men and lesbians dissimilar from those of heterosexuals? Or do they even differ? Have gay people benefited from the recent economic boom? Or have public policies denied them their fair share? Money, Myths, and Change provides new answers to these complex questions. This is the first comprehensive work to explore the economic lives of gays and lesbians in the United States. M. V. Lee Badgett weaves through and debunks common stereotypes about gay privilege, income, and consumer behavior. Studying the ends and means of gay life from an economic perspective, she disproves the assumption that gay men and lesbians are more affluent than heterosexuals, that they inspire discrimination when they come out of the closet, that they consume more conspicuously, that they enjoy a more self-indulgent, even hedonistic lifestyle. Badgett gets to the heart of these misconceptions through an analysis of the crucial issues that affect the livelihood of gay men and lesbians: discrimination in the workplace, denial of health care benefits to domestic partners and children, lack of access to legal institutions such as marriage, the corporate wooing of gay consumer dollars, and the use of gay economic clout to inspire social and political change. Both timely and readable, Money, Myths, and Change stands as a much-needed corrective to the assumptions that inhibit gay economic equality. It is a definitive work that sheds new light on just what it means to be gay or lesbian in the United States.

Author : Carey Kinsolving
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Children
ISBN : 0849956730

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Kids Talk about God by Carey Kinsolving Pdf

Kids really do say the darndest things. And in this humorous book by Carey Kinsolving and friends, the reader will be amused and sometimes amazed at the whimsical yet wise ways that children view God. With material taken from Kinsolving's weekly syndicated column, Kids Talk About God is a delightful collection of children's answers to questions likme: How can God be everywhere at one time? What do angels look like? Who made God? Why do we die?

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1612985521

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