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The Fed: The Inside Story How World's Most Powerful Financial Institution Drives Markets
Martin Mayer Manufacturer: Plume ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0452283418 Release Date: 2002-06-25 |
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Martin Mayer's engaging examination of the much-talked-about but little understood U.S. Federal Reserve begins with the dramatic events of October 1998, a month in which the market closed "lock limit down" for the first time in almost a decade. At the same time, Alan Greenspan, the Fed's chairman, began radically reinventing his agency's role and its influence on the market. Indeed, while most of the rest of the world's countries were diminishing the role of their central banks, Congress was granting new powers and responsibilities to the Fed. Mayer's book--part history, part journalistic report, and all detailed analysis--looks at the significance of those powers, their benefits and risks, and what they mean to the markets. He also devotes chapters to the day-to-day inner workings of the Fed, its influence in international financial matters, and its possible role in coming years.As a prolific author and respected economics scholar, Mayer has been immersed in the financial world for decades and provides both bird's-eye and long-range views of money's complicated maneuverings. Without his excellent storytelling abilities and fluid writing style, this book would be heavy going for anyone who doesn't speak the language of high finance. Though it is most definitely dense (and its structure somewhat erratic), Mayer manages to make a complicated subject accessible for those with more interest than actual knowledge. An informative look at a hitherto enigmatic but influential institution. --S. Ketchum
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Interest in Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve Board has never been greater and veteran financial journalist Martin Mayer delivers a first rate explanation of how the Fed works and how its decisions drive financial markets.Customer Reviews:
Skip it.......2007-09-26
Dry and tedious.......2007-09-01
The best book on the subject I've encountered.......2007-04-23
Tempted to give five stars..........2006-08-27
Not good at all.......2006-07-08
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The Fed. (Book Reviews).(The Inside Story of How the World's Most Powerful Financial Institution Drives the Market) (book review): An article from: Finance & Development
Michael Taylor , and Martin Mayer Manufacturer: International Monetary Fund ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008ILHTW Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Finance & Development, published by International Monetary Fund on December 1, 2001. The length of the article is 831 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The Fed: The Inside Story of How the World's Most Powerful Financial Institution Drives the Markets. (Book Reviews).(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Journal of Economic Issues
Eric Tymoigne Manufacturer: Association for Evolutionary Economics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008DAZXQ Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Economic Issues, published by Association for Evolutionary Economics on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1444 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The Practice of Banking 2
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0860105644 |
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Practice of Banking 2
J.R. Marsh FCIB , and D.G. Wild FCIB Manufacturer: Pearson Higher Education ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0273028189 |
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The Practice of Banking 2 (Practice of Banking 1)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0860105881 |
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Securities for bankers' advances, (His The law and practice of banking, v. 2)
James Milnes Holden Manufacturer: Pitman Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0273315587 |
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Circular 230 final Regs.(practice before the IRS)(part 2): An article from: The Tax Adviser
John C. Gardner , Barbara J. Eide , and Susan L. Willey Manufacturer: American Institute of CPA's ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008G80BW Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from The Tax Adviser, published by American Institute of CPA's on February 1, 2003. The length of the article is 2503 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Dealing with the IRS: appeals & collections. (part 2 of a three-part series): An article from: The National Public Accountant
Royce E. Chaffin , and George Busby Manufacturer: National Society of Public Accountants ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000988DT8 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from The National Public Accountant, published by National Society of Public Accountants on June 1, 1998. The length of the article is 4503 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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International Banking Operations and Practices:Current Developments (International Banking and Finance Law, Vol 2)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1853339970 |
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International Banking Operations and Practices: Current Developments is based on a conference which was held in Taipei on 22--24 June 1992. It represents a tightly coordinated and edited collection of scholarly and highly practical chapters prepared by leading experts on banking law. Important changes are taking place in the financial sectors in the Pacific Rim; vital roles are being played by Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taipei. This volume deals with the relevant legal questions regarding the changing international financial practices and is divided into two parts. Part I deals with Foreign Banks in International Banking Operations, and Part II covers International Banking and Private Law. This collection, which was designed as a broad foundation for comparative analysis of changes and reforms occurring worldwide in international banking regulation and practice, will be an invaluable aid to all domestic and international government officials, executives of banking and other financial institutions, professionals (attorneys, accountants and other advisers) representing such institutions and academics, in trying to understand both policies and practicalities reflected by these rapid changes and reforms. A separate, but related, companion volume on international banking regulation and supervision has also been produced, entitled International Banking Regulation and Supervision: Change and Transformation in the 1990s, which deals with the broad policy issues entailed in the liberalization and deregulation of the banking industry.
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Marketing value: a well-rounded marketing plan can showcase your Type-2 services.(PRACTICE MANAGEMENT) : An article from: California CPA
Chris Frederiksen Manufacturer: California Society of Certified Public Accountants ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000ALUFGS Release Date: 2005-07-25 |
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This digital document is an article from California CPA, published by California Society of Certified Public Accountants on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 845 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The Old West way: when PlainsCapital Corp., Lubbock, Texas, realized that the $2.5 billion institution needed to brand itself in order to help fuel its ... Story) : An article from: ABA Bank Marketing
Janet Bigham Bernstel Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000BJB0QI Release Date: 2005-09-22 |
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This digital document is an article from ABA Bank Marketing, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2005. The length of the article is 2561 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The Practice of Banking 2
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 086010589X |
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Restitution ,,Entarteter Kunst: Sachenrecht Und Internationales Privatrecht (Schriften Zum Kulturguterschutz / Cultural Property Studies)
Hans Henning Kunze Manufacturer: Walter De Gruyter Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 3110168189 |
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Agricultural Ecosystems: Unifying Concepts
Richard Lowrance , and Benjamin R. Stinner Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 047187888X |
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Biology Write Now!
Theodore L. Taigen , and Joseph Monninger Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill College ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0070031436 |
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This collection of brief, original essays meets the growing need to incorporate the writing process into the biology curriculum. Biology Write Now presents students with an even-handed treatment of topical, often controversial issues in biology. Using the text's essays as points of departure, students write their essays based on their own critical thinking and understanding of biological principles and biology's role in society and the world. The text can be used with both majors and nonmajors in biology and as a supplement in both lower and upper level courses.
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BIOLOGY WRITE NOW!
Theodore L. & J. Monninger. Taigen Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Inc., ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000RIOF2E |
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Biology Write Now!
Theodore L. Taigen Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill College ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OFLZZ0 |
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An Assessment of Natural Hazards and Disasters in Canada
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1402011792 |
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The problems and issues of natural hazards and disasters, both globally and in Canada, are becoming increasingly important since the costs of extreme natural events have been escalating, and significant vulnerabilities exist in Canadian society. Without thoughtful and effective mitigation, these costs and human suffering are likely to continue to increase. An assessment of knowledge, research, and practice in risk, hazards and disasters fields is a fundamental step towards the goal of prevention and mitigation.
This book on natural hazards and disasters in Canada is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary publication on this subject, and is the result of a national assessment on this topic. A variety of papers from the physical and social sciences explores both the risks associated with these hazards, and adaptive strategies that can be used to reduce those risks.
Audience: This excellent collection of papers is intended for academics, professionals and practitioners involved in hazard reduction activities who wish to obtain a better understanding of Canadian natural hazards.
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The Nine Numbers of the Cosmos
Michael Rowan-Robinson Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0198504446 |
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How old is the universe? How far away are the galaxies and how fast are they travelling away from us? What do the atoms in our bodies, our very existence, tell us about the history of the universe? Are we in a special place in the universe? What is dark matter and why do astronomers think it pervades the universe? How heavy is the vacuum? How do galaxies form? Michael Rowan-Robinson answers these questions and encapsulates all that modern astronomy has learnt about the universe around nine numbers. Some, like the age of the universe are natural choices. Others are less obvious. His motto is Montaigne's 'What do I know' and the reader emerges with a genuine feel for what we really know about the universe and also what we do not know. Only one of the nine numbers is known with real precision and four of them are extremely poorly known. Difficult ideas like the origin of the elements, the General Theory of Relativity, quantum theory, and the standard model of particle physics, ideas which underpin modern cosmology, are explained in a simple way. Speculative ideas like inflation, 'Theories of Everything', strings and superstrings, are here but they are treated with a refreshing scepticism. Although most of what we know has been learnt during the twentieth century, Rowan- Robinson gives a historical perspective and pays homage to the achievements of the Greeks, renaissance astronomers and the age of Newton. He ends the book with a look forward in time, predicting that with the advent of the MAP and PLANCK- Surveyor space missions, the Large Hadron Collider and other planned experiments, all the nine numbers will be accurately known by 2015. But many questions and mysteries will remain and the book ends with the prediction that the origin of the Big Bang itself will remain a mystery in 2100 and perhaps even in the year 3000.Customer Reviews:
Still mostly relevant, still excellent.......2005-11-06
Review Update, Jan. 2004 - Nine Numbers Now Outdated.......2003-11-01
Cosmology updated.......2001-03-11
One of my pet peeves about books on cosmology is the constant rehashing of ancient conceptions of how and why the universe came into being, along with mistaken ideas from the early days of astronomy, anything, it sometimes seems, to pad out the requisite three hundred pages or so. Consequently I was pleased not to encounter any tales of turtles holding up the world or any retracing of the Ptolemaic model before the author gets to the current state of affairs (although he does give some brief history as he goes along).
The nine numbers serve as an organizing device through which a picture of modern cosmology is revealed, or as the author puts it in the Prologue, "a peg on which to hang different aspects of our knowledge." Incidentally, the Prologue, "Que sais-je," is particularly well written and candid and valuable for what it reveals about what Rowan-Robinson's knowledge. The first number is the amount of baryonic matter in the universe, as revealed in Chapter 1 entitled, "We exist." Chapter 2 is "We are not in a special place," revealed by the considerable extent to which the universe is isotropic and homogeneous. The third number is the Hubble constant, the fourth, the age of the universe, the fifth, the temperature of the background radiation, etc. I'll leave it to the reader to discover the other numbers. What I want to focus on are Professor Rowan-Robinson's speculations on extraterrestrial life from Chapter 1.
He begins by expressing his "difficulty...with the idea that advanced technological civilizations like ourselves are common in our Galaxy" (p. 16). I think he has expressed it exactly right here with the words "like ourselves," which I want to emphasize. However on the next page he goes on to present the familiar argument (from Fermi) that a civilization much in advance of ours would have found us by now. He cautions that he doesn't accept the view that "they keep themselves hidden so as not to interfere with our development." Hence the tired conclusion that THEY probably do NOT exist.
The main problem with this argument is that it projects human psychology and desire onto beings of an advanced civilization. They might very well have their reasons for leaving us alone. Additionally, it's not clear that the problem of interstellar travel is as easily solved as some might think, and I'm thinking here of the emotional and psychological difficulties as well as the technical ones. Rowan-Robinson writes that he doesn't accept "any really fundamental limits on colonizing the Galaxy" (p. 17). Even if he is right, would such beings have the desire to colonize? I suspect that their psychology might differ, perhaps startlingly, from our own, and that they may prefer to stay at home.
Rowan-Robinson also considers the case of an advanced civilization, unable to colonize other planets, facing the death of its star. He believes they "would surely put some effort into demonstrating that they had existed. There would be the astronomical equivalent of the pyramids, some kind of beacon signaling forever" ( p. 17). To me, such a vain glorious enterprise is more characteristic of human psychology than anything else, especially that of our pre-technological civilizations. I would add that in advancing it, Rowan-Robinson is guilty of anthropomorphizing the aliens! Surely, one would think, after a billion years or so of development, there would be some advance on this sort of psychology. Perhaps Professor Rowan-Robinson would appreciate being reminded of the lesson of Shelley's poem, "Ozymandias," that "king of kings" whose "shattered visage lies" amid the drifting sands.
Rowan-Robinson concludes the book with a prediction for the year 2100 (repeated from page 64) that the Planck era (10 to the minus 43 seconds after the Big Bang) will remain "shrouded in mystery." He adds, "It would not surprise me if this were still a mystery in the year 3000." There are some helpful diagrams and tables, some black and white photos, a brief glossary, and a name, and a subject index.
The Nine Numbers of the Cosomos.......2000-04-20
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The Nine Numbers of the Cosmos
Michael Rowan-Robinson Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OKWRZW |
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Dixiana Moon (Voices of the South)
William Price Fox Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0807127469 |
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William Price Fox's bountiful gifts for caricature and local color have earned him favorable comparisons to Mark Twain. His third novel, DIXIANA MOON, is the picaresque account of a young, irrepressible New York salesman, Joe Mahaffey, who flees his business problems by joining forces with fast-talking southern con man Buck Brody in his latest scheme: the Jubilee Crusade and Famous Life of Christ Show, a combination gospel freak show and traveling circus starring Bible Belt messiah Arlo Waters. It's a story of conversion from one way of life to another and from one place to a new one, and its madcap pace in pursuit of the American dream continues all the way down the Dixiana Highway.
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Dixiana Moon
William Price FOX Manufacturer: Viking Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000UZQ1NK |
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Dixiana moon
William Price. Fox Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KUAUJ6 |
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