Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs SubcommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commodity exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
Book Description
Silver Prices and the Adequacy of Federal Actions in the Marketplace, 1979-80
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs SubcommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commodity exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
Book Description
Silver Prices and the Adequacy of Federal Actions in the Marketplace, 1979-80
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs SubcommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commodity exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 1222
Book Description
Making Markets
Author: Mitchel Y. AbolafiaPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674006887
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
"In the wake of million-dollar scandals brought about by Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, and their like, Wall Street seems like the province of rampant individualism operating at the outermost extremes of self-interest and greed. But this, Mitchel Abolafia suggests, would be a case of missing the real culture of the Street for the characters who dominate the financial news. Making Markets, an ethnography of Wall Street culture, offers a more complex picture of how the market and its denizens work. Not merely masses of individuals striving independently, markets appear here as socially constructed institutions in which the behavior of traders is suspended in a web of customs, norms, and structures of control. Within these structures we see the actions that led to the Drexel Burnham and Salomon Brothers debacles not as bizarre aberrations, but as mere exaggerations of behavior accepted on the Street. Abolafia looks at three subcultures that coexist in the world of Wall Street: the stock, bond, and futures markets. Through interviews, anecdotes, and the author’s skillful analysis, we see how traders and New York Stock Exchange “specialists” negotiate the perpetual tension between short-term self-interest and long-term self-restraint that marks their respective communities—and how the temptation toward excess spurs market activity. We also see the complex relationships among those market communities—why, for instance, NYSE specialists resent the freedoms permitted over-the-counter bond traders and futures traders. Making Markets shows us that what propels Wall Street is not a fundamental human drive or instinct, but strategies enacted in the context of social relationships, cultural idioms, and institutions—a cycle that moves between phases of unbridled self-interest and collective self-restraint."
The Story of Silver
Author: William L. SilberPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691208697
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world, Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt, during the 1970s altered the course of American and world history. FDR pumped up the price of silver to help jump start the U.S. economy during the Great Depression, but this move weakened China, which was then on the silver standard, and facilitated Japan's rise to power before World War II. Bunker Hunt went on a silver-buying spree during the 1970s to protect himself against inflation and triggered a financial crisis that left him bankrupt. Silver has been the preferred shelter against government defaults, political instability, and inflation for most people in the world because it is cheaper than gold. The white metal has been the place to hide when conventional investments sour, but it has also seduced sophisticated investors throughout the ages like a siren. This book explains how powerful figures, up to and including Warren Buffett, have come under silver's thrall, and how its history guides economic and political decisions in the twenty-first century"--Publisher's description
Law Enforcement and the History of Financial Market Manipulation
Author: Jerry MarkhamPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317466365
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
First Published in 2014. This book maps the issues and traces the U.S. government's efforts to properly regulate, monitor, and prevent financial speculation and price manipulation in various markets. It begins with the period from the late nineteenth century to the first congressional efforts at regulation in the 1930s and continues on to the present, with a full chapter on the legal and financial aspects of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The book also discusses the difficulty of initiating successful prosecutions of financial fraud and price manipulation and proposes a new approach to preventing manipulative practices.
Activities of the House Committee on Government Operations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government OperationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Oversight
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs SubcommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1542
Book Description
Securities Regulation & Law Report
Author: Federal Securities Law Reporter
Author: Silver Prices and the Adequacy of Federal Actions in the Marketplace, 1979-80
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs SubcommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commodity exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 1203
Book Description