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Wall Street - narrow street in the lower part of Manhattan island, New York City, extending E from Broadway to the East River. It is the center of one of the greatest financial districts in the world, and by extension the term "Wall St." has come to designate U.S. financial interests. In the district, which extends several blocks N and S of Wall St., are the New York and the


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    Wall Street: A History: From Its Beginnings to the Fall of Enron » Read Now

    by Charles R. Geisst. 430 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    In the seven years since the publication of the first edition of Wall Street, America's financial industry has undergone a series of wrenching events that have dramatically changed the nation's economic landscape. The bull market of the 1990's came to a close, ushering in the end of the dot com...
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    The Unseen Wall Street of 1969-1975: And Its Significance for Today » Read Now

    by Alec Benn. 216 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    Long-time financial ad agency president Alec Benn offers a unique, first hand look at America's investment community, at a time of changes so profound that their impact, implications, and significance are still with us. Based on frank, revealing talks with people who participated in those events, on...
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    The Masters of Capital: A Chronicle of Wall Street » Read Now

    by John Moody. 238 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...OF CAPITAL A CHRONICLE OF WALL STREET BY JOHN MOODY NEW...IV. STANDARD OIL AND WALL STREET " 52 V. THE...AFTER " 134 IX WALL STREET AND THE WORLD WAR " 155...
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    Bull Run: Wall Street, the Democrats, and the New Politics of Personal Finance » Read Now

    by Daniel Gross. 246 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    Just in time for the 2000 election comes a fascinating look at how the Democrats became the party of Wall Street and how everyone became investors--and what these two things mean in the long run.
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    Struggle and Survival on Wall Street: The Economics of Competition among Securities Firms » Read Now

    by John O. Matthews. 276 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    Struggle and Survival on Wall Street provides a comprehensive economic analysis of competition between broker-dealers or securities firms. It uses the industrial organization approach which focuses on the interaction of the industry's structure, conduct, and performance to argue that the driving...
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    New York City's Economic Dependence on Wall Street, in Challenge » Read Now

    by Office of the State Deputy Comptroller. 17 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...York Citys economic dependence on Wall Street. Office of the State Deputy...market boom than New York City. Wall Street investment banks and stock brokerage...considerable...
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    How to Fix Wall Street: A Voucher Financing Proposal for Securities Intermediaries, in Yale Law Journal » Read Now

    by Stephen J. Choi, Jill E. Fisch. 79 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...How to Fix Wall Street: A Voucher Financing Proposal for Securities...will ultimately fail. Instead, fixing Wall Street requires a separate solution to the...Capitals...
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    Nerds on Wall Street, in The American Enterprise » Read Now

    by Eli Lehrer, Karl Zinsmeister. 4 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...Nerds on Wall Street. by Eli Lehrer , Karl Zinsmeister...But much more than a generation ago, Wall Street is now peopled by apparently unrelated...different." The new wonks...
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    Visionary Capitalism: Financial Markets and the American Dream in the Twentieth Century » Read Now

    by Charles R. Geisst. 191 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    This is the first financial history of the United States in the 20th century from the commercial and investment banking perspective. Arguing that the ideal of an American Dream finds its best tangible expression in the ways in which the financial markets have been used to foster and protect the...
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    The Keepers of Finance: U.S. Financial Leadership at the Crossroads » Read Now

    by Jeremy F. Taylor. 242 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    Financial leadership must not be confused with financial wealth, warns Jeremy Taylor, who sets up guideposts from history to point the way out of our current financial crisis. By developing the concept of financial stewardship, he shows why private gain must be countered with public responsibility...
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    Wall Street Backlash: A Wave of New Books Is Anything but Upbeat. What Do They Say about Investors and the Economy, in ABA Banking Journal » Read Now

    by Lauren Bielski. 2 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...Wall Street backlash: a wave of new books is anything...by Lauren Bielski The fact that Wall Street looks out for Number One is hardly a newsflash...Gordon Gekko character...
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    Stock Prices and Wall Street Weather: Additional Evidence, in Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics » Read Now

    by Mark A. Trombley. 11 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...Stock prices and Wall Street weather: additional evidence...regarding the relationship between Wall Street weather and average daily security...return effects. For example...
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    How Vulnerable Is Wall Street? in Challenge » Read Now

    by The New York Review of Books. 12 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...How vulnerable is Wall Street Leon Levy has been on Wall Street for fifty years, first as head of Oppenheimer and Company...is quite the opposite of the worry of many...
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    Venture Capitalist Financing: Contemporary Foundations for Minsky's "Wall Street" Perspective, in Journal of Economic Issues » Read Now

    by Ingrid H. Rima. 8 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...Venture capitalist financing: contemporary foundations for Minskys "Wall Street" perspective by Ingrid H. Rima The Anatomy of Financial Instability Hyman Minskys (1975...
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    Democracy at Risk: Rescuing Main Street from Wall Street » Read Now

    by Jeff Gates. 400 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    Citing alarming statistics, Jeff Gates convincingly argues that the current economic boom is largely a mirage, buoyed by policies that continue to reward the wealthy and punish the poor. With equal measures of passion and incisive reasoning, he proposes an ambitious yet practical program of financial, political, and economic reform.

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