A Financial History of the United States: From Christopher Columbus to the Robber Barons (1492-1900)
A Financial History of the United States: From Christopher Columbus to the Robber Barons (1492-1900)

Author: Jerry W. Markham

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780765607300

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The first comprehensive financial history of the United States in more than thirty years. Accessible to undergraduate level readers, it focuses on the growth and expansion of banking, securities, and insurance from the colonial period right up to the incredible growth of the stock market during the 1990s and the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001. The author traces the origins of American finance to the older societies of Europe and Northern Africa, and shows how English merchants transferred their financial systems to America. He explains how financial matters dominated the founding and development of the colonies, and how financial concerns incited the Revolution. And he shows how the Civil War began the transformation of America from a small economy largely dependent on foreign capital into a complex capitalist society. From the Civil War, the nation's financial history breaks down into periods of frenzied speculation, quiet growth, periodic panics, and furious periods of expansion, right up through the incredible growth of the stock market during the 1990s.

A Financial History of the United States
A Financial History of the United States

Author: Jerry W Markham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-17

Total Pages: 839

ISBN-13: 1317478126

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This new reference by the author of the critically acclaimed A Financial History of the United States covers the aftermath of the Enron-era scandals and the extraordinary financial developments during the period

13 Bankers
13 Bankers

Author: Simon Johnson

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-01-11

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 030747660X

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In spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this oligarchy proved it could first hold the global economy hostage and then use its political muscle to fight off meaningful reform. 13 Bankers brilliantly charts the rise to power of the financial sector and forcefully argues that we must break up the big banks if we want to avoid future financial catastrophes. Updated, with additional analysis of the government’s recent attempt to reform the banking industry, this is a timely and expert account of our troubled political economy.

The Two-Income Trap
The Two-Income Trap

Author: Elizabeth Warren

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2016-04-12

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0465097715

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Senator Elizabeth Warren and consultant Amelia Warren Tyagi, the classic book about America's middle class -- and why economic security remains out of reach for many. In this exposé, Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi show that modern middle-class families are increasingly trapped by the grinding reality of flat wages and rising costs. Warren and Tyagi reveal how a ferocious bidding war for housing and education has silently engulfed America's suburbs, driving up the cost of keeping families in the middle class, and placing unprecedented pressure on hard-working families. Revolutionary when it was first published in 2003, The Two-Income Trap remains disturbingly relevant today. Now with a new introduction by the authors, The Two Income Trap shows why the usual remedies won't solve the problem and points toward the policy changes that would create better opportunities for both parents and children.

From J.P. Morgan to the Institutional Investor
From J.P. Morgan to the Institutional Investor

Author: Jerry W. Markham

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-06-06

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 1000592421

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Originally published in 2002, this is the second of three volumes in a history of finance in America. This volume starts with the investment bankers who dominated finance at the beginning of the twentieth century. It then describes the Panic of 1907 and the resulting creation of the Federal Reserve Board (the 'Fed'). The volume then traces finance through World War I, and it examines the events that led to the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. From there it reviews the rebirth of finance after World War II and the growth of the institutional investor.

From the Age of Derivatives into the New Millennium
From the Age of Derivatives into the New Millennium

Author: Jerry W. Markham

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-06-06

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 1000592650

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Originally published in 2002, this volume focuses on the growth of derivatives, the savings and loan crisis, the merger mania of the 1980s, the accompanying insider trading scandals, and the battle with inflation. This history then reviews the market run-up in the 1990s and the rebirth of finance that was being strongly pushed by the Internet economy as the third millennium began.

From Christopher Columbus to the Robber Barons
From Christopher Columbus to the Robber Barons

Author: Jerry W. Markham

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-06-06

Total Pages: 525

ISBN-13: 1000592200

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Originally published in 2002, this is the first of three volumes in a history of finance in America. This volume covers the period from the 'discovery' of America to the end of the nineteenth century. It describes the status of finance in Europe at the time of Christopher Columbus' voyage to America. It then traces its transfer and development in America through the Revolution, into the Civil War and beyond to the speculative excesses occurring after that event.

Gatekeepers
Gatekeepers

Author: John C. Coffee Jr.

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2006-06-01

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 0191516066

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In the wake of a series of corporate governance disasters in the US and Europe which have gained almost mythic status - Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia, HealthSouth, Parmalat - one question has not yet been addressed. A number of 'gatekeeping' professions - auditors, attorneys, securities analysts, credit-rating agencies - exist to guard against these governance failures. Yet clearly these watchdogs did not bark while corporations were looted and destroyed. But why not? To answer these questions, a more detailed investigation is necessary that moves beyond journalism and easy scapegoating, and examines the evolution, responsibilities, and standards of these professions. John C. Coffee Jr, world-renowned Professor of Corporate Law, examines how these gatekeeping professions developed, to what degree they failed, and what reforms are feasible. Above all, this book examines the institutional changes and pressures that caused gatekeepers to underperform or neglect their responsibilities, and focuses on those feasible changes that can restore gatekeepers as the loyal agents of investors. This informed and readable view of the players on the contemporary business stage will be essential reading for investors, professionals, executives and business academics concerned with issues of good governance.

The Foreign Exchange and Money Markets Guide
The Foreign Exchange and Money Markets Guide

Author: Julian Walmsley

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2000-03-28

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 9780471348986

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Die Devisenmärkte haben sich in den letzten Jahren enorm verändert. Der Markt für SWAP-Geschäfte ist beträchtlich gewachsen, der EURO spielt eine große Rolle und derivate Instrumente nehmen täglich zu. Durch diese Entwicklungen hat sich die internationale Geschäftsabwicklung für die kommenden Jahre nachhaltig verändert. Dies ist die komplett überarbeitete und erweiterte 2. Auflage des berühmten Klassikers "Foreign Exchange and Money Market Guide". Es ist ein praktischer und verständlich geschriebener Leitfaden, der Informationen bietet zu allen wichtigen internationalen Märkten.

Market Rules
Market Rules

Author: Mark H. Rose

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2018-11-17

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0812295668

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Although most Americans attribute shifting practices in the financial industry to the invisible hand of the market, Mark H. Rose reveals the degree to which presidents, legislators, regulators, and even bankers themselves have long taken an active interest in regulating the industry. In 1971, members of Richard Nixon's Commission on Financial Structure and Regulation described the banks they sought to create as "supermarkets." Analogous to the twentieth-century model of a store at which Americans could buy everything from soft drinks to fresh produce, supermarket banks would accept deposits, make loans, sell insurance, guide mergers and acquisitions, and underwrite stock and bond issues. The supermarket bank presented a radical departure from the financial industry as it stood, composed as it was of local savings and loans, commercial banks, investment banks, mutual funds, and insurance firms. Over the next four decades, through a process Rose describes as "grinding politics," supermarket banks became the guiding model of the financial industry. As the banking industry consolidated, it grew too large while remaining too fragmented and unwieldy for politicians to regulate and for regulators to understand—until, in 2008, those supermarket banks, such as Citigroup, needed federal help to survive and prosper once again. Rose explains the history of the financial industry as a story of individuals—some well-known, like Presidents Kennedy, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton; Treasury Secretaries Donald Regan and Timothy Geithner; and JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon; and some less so, though equally influential, such as Kennedy's Comptroller of the Currency James J. Saxon, Citicorp CEO Walter Wriston, and Bank of America CEOs Hugh McColl and Kenneth Lewis. Rose traces the evolution of supermarket banks from the early days of the Kennedy administration, through the financial crisis of 2008, and up to the Trump administration's attempts to modify bank rules. Deeply researched and accessibly written, Market Rules demystifies the major trends in the banking industry and brings financial policy to life.