mobi |eng | 2008-10-05 | Author:Taleb, Nassim Nicholas [Taleb, Nassim Nicholas]

Too Much Work Marc’s body became progressively flabbier, and his bespoke suits needed periodic visits to the tailor, in spite of his occasional crash diets. After he got over the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:Perry J. Kaufman

In Chapter 3, we introduced the high-distortion filter, or distortion ratio. This is a simple way of recognizing when two markets are acting very differently based entirely on the relative ...

mobi |eng | 2008-09-24 | Author:Bernstein, Peter L. [Bernstein, Peter L.]

However, the description of this process raises an extremely important point that usually receives much too little attention in discussions of how far the commercial banking system can go in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-10 | Author:Mike Dash

When selling in het ootje, this same figure was sketched on the slates of each member of the college. A florist who wished to dispose of some bulbs would write ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1999-08-11 | Author:Mike Dash

When selling in het ootje, this same figure was sketched on the slates of each member of the college. A florist who wished to dispose of some bulbs would write ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:David Graeber

The Near West: Islam (Capital as Credit) Prices depend on the will of Allah; it is he who raises and lowers them. —Attributed to the Prophet Mohammed The profit of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Tim Harford

SCHELLING’S CHESSBOARD MODEL suggests that transformations such as Fifteenth Street’s should be impossible: Things always fall apart, people always give in to their prejudices, and small anxieties lead to big ...

mobi, epub, pdf |ru | 2012-03-25 | Author:Paul Krugman

CHAPTER EIGHT BUT WHAT ABOUT THE DEFICIT? There may be some tax provisions that can encourage businesses to hire sooner rather than sitting on the sidelines. So we’re taking a ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-07-29 | Author:Bonner, William [Bonner, William]

Tran Quang Co put him on the spot: Mr. MacNamara admits his mistakes, which we admire, but he unfortunately attributes most mistakes to misjudgments and miscalculations. But we must also ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-11-01 | Author:Michael Lewis

CHAPTER SIX Spider-Man at The Venetian Golfing with Eisman wasn't like golfing with other Wall Street people. The round usually began with a collective discomfort on the first tee, after ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Lewis, Michael [Lewis, Michael]

† Brian Lenihan is also, as Joan Burton pointed out, tricky. It’s racing up on eight in the evening when I meet him in a Department of Finance conference room. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-09 | Author:Peter Marber

Immigration and Security The 9/11 attacks and subsequent 2005 London subway bombings have made immigrants appear as the number one terrorist enemy of the Western world. There has been legislation ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-11 | Author:William D. Cohan

CHAPTER 15 $10 BILLION OR BUST From the outset, Corzine and Paulson had to figure out ways to apply tourniquets to the blood rushing out of the Goldman Sachs corpus. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-19 | Author:Christine S. Richard

AS MBIA PUT one crisis behind it, storm clouds were forming over the U.S. subprime mortgage market. The subprime mortgage market had become an increasingly important part of the U.S. ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-01-27 | Author:Liaquat Ahamed

PART FOUR REAPING ANOTHER WHIRLWIND 1928-33 16. INTO THE VORTEX 1928-29 At particular times a great deal of stupid people have a great deal of stupid money. . . . ...