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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Freezing Order, the follow-up to Red Notice, is available now! "[Red Notice] does for investing in Russia and the former Soviet Union what Liar's Poker did for our understanding of Salomon Brothers, Wall Street, and the mortgage-backed securities business in the 1980s. Browder's business saga meshes well with the story of corruption and murder in Vladimir Putin's Russia, making Red Notice an early candidate...
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Language
English
Description
John D. Rockefeller, Sr., history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty, is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, a National Book Award–winning biographer, gives us a detailed and insightful history of the mogul. Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller's exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full
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Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This personal narrative tells how a dyslexic, half-blind boy from a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood became one of the most successful traders on the planet. He did this by figuring out life and applying that knowledge to investing. The author weaves life lessons with advice on being a trader.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From the host of NPR's Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, ruthless investor changed American finance forever. Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a gambler. In 1966, a fresh college grad, he went to Vegas armed with his net worth ($200) and a knack for counting cards. $10,000 and countless casino bans later, he was hooked: so he enrolled in business school. The Bond King is the story...
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Publisher
Wiley
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An intriguing look at Bernie Madoff the man, and his scamMadoff with the Money is a deeply disturbing portrait of Bernie Madoff based on dozens of exclusive, news-making interviews. From the values Madoff was taught growing up in the working class town of Laurelton, Queens to his high-life on Wall Street and the super-rich enclaves of Palm Beach and the French Riviera, bestselling author Jerry Oppenheimer follows the disgraced money manager's trail...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business, and politics Since the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry has made a greater impact on the world than Silicon Valley. And few individuals have done more to shape Silicon Valley than billionaire venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel....
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Sales handles: - SUCCESS OF PREVIOUS EDITIONS: The original Bloomberg by Bloomberg (1997) sold 49,489 copies, and the 2001 paperback revision has sold 50,815. - NEW CONTENT: The first edition came out before Michael Bloomberg was elected Mayor of NYC, so the second edition will have a good deal of new content related to his time in office. This will attract a political readership, in addition to those reading the book for Bloomberg's business insights....
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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
" In 1901, the Northern Pacific was an unlikely prize: a twice-bankrupt construction of the federal government, it was a two-bit railroad (literally--five years back, its stock traded for twenty-five cents a share). But it was also a key to connecting eastern markets through Chicago to the rising West. Two titans of American railroads set their sights on it: James J. Hill, head of the Great Northern and largest individual shareholder of the Northern...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States, a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen.
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