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The end of Wall Street

Description:	1 online resource (xxv, 339 p.)
Publisher:	New York : Penguin Press, 2010.
ISBN:	1101196858 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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▸The roots of the mortgage bubble, the story of the Wall Street collapse, and the government's ... unprecedented response are captured in this blow-by-blow account of "the end of Wall Street" by one of our most trusted business journalists. Read More

When genius failed : the rise and fall of Long-Term Capital Management

Description:	xxi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Publisher:	New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2011, ©2000
ISBN:	9780375758256 (paperback) :
Edition:	Random House Trade pbk. ed
1 of 1 copy available at NOBLE (All Libraries). 1 of 1 copy available at Gordon College. Library Location Call number Status Gordon College Stack Level 3 HG 4930 .L69 2011 Available
▸In this business classic-now with a new Afterword in which the author draws parallels to the recent ... financial crisis-Roger Lowenstein captures the gripping roller-coaster ride of Long-Term Capital Management. Drawing on confidential internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein explains not just how the fund made and lost its money but also how the personalities of Long-Term{8217}s partners, the arrogance of their mathematical certainties, and the culture of Wall Street itself contributed to both their rise and their fall. When it was founded in 1993, Long-Term was hailed as the most impressive hedge fund in history. But after four years in which the firm dazzled Wall Street as a $100 billion moneymaking juggernaut, it suddenly suffered catastrophic losses that jeopardized not only the biggest banks on Wall Street but the stability of the financial system itself. The dramatic story of Long-Term{8217}s fall is now a chilling harbinger of the crisis that would strike all of Wall Street, from Lehman Brothers to AIG, a decade later Read More

Ways and means : Lincoln and his cabinet and the financing of the Civil War

Description:	1 online resource
Publisher:	New York : Penguin Press, 2022.
ISBN:	9780735223561 (electronic bk.)
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▸"In Ways and Means, journalist Roger Lowenstein reveals the unlikely story of how Abraham Lincoln ... used the urgency of financing the Civil War to transform a union of states into one united nation. Through a financial lens, he explores how this second American revolution, led by Lincoln, his cabinet, and his congress, changed the direction of the country"-- Read More

Ways and means : Lincoln and his cabinet and the financing of the Civil War

Description:	1 sound file : digital
Publisher:	New York : Penguin Press, 2022.
ISBN:	9780593555644 (electronic audio bk.)
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▸"In Ways and Means, journalist Roger Lowenstein reveals the unlikely story of how Abraham Lincoln ... used the urgency of financing the Civil War to transform a union of states into one united nation. Through a financial lens, he explores how this second American revolution, led by Lincoln, his cabinet, and his congress, changed the direction of the country"-- Read More