The roots of the mortgage bubble and the story of the Wall Street collapse-and the government's unprecedented response-from our most trusted business journalist. The End of Wall Street is a blow-by-blow account of America's biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression. Drawing on 180 interviews, including sit-downs with top government officials and Wall Street CE...(展开全部)

"Illuminating...Combines tales of flamboyant promoters...with wry observations about the nature of man and markets." - New York Times Leon Levy was a legendary investor, a founder of Oppenheimer Funds and the guiding force behind Oppenheimer as well as several other investment ventures. Now, with Wall Street stuck in a prolonged rut, it's appropriate to turn for insights to a...(展开全部)

"Illuminating...Combines tales of flamboyant promoters...with wry observations about the nature of man and markets." - New York Times Leon Levy was a legendary investor, a founder of Oppenheimer Funds and the guiding force behind Oppenheimer as well as several other investment ventures. Now, with Wall Street stuck in a prolonged rut, it's appropriate to turn for insights to a...(展开全部)

Co-founder of the legendary Brother Juniper’s Bakery, author of the landmark books Brother Juniper’s Bread Book and Crust & Crumb , and distinguished instructor at the world’s largest culinary academy, Peter Reinhart has been a leader in America’s artisanal bread movement for over fifteen years. Never one to be content with yesterday’s baking triumph, however, Peter continue...(展开全部)

この巨大な壁は何? 人々を消失させる恐怖のWALLから逃げられるのか? 202X年のある夏の日、シコタン島(色丹島)の墓地で祈りを捧げていた ロシア人老夫婦が、丘の上から半透明のヴェールが近づいていることに気づく。不思議に思った二人が手をつないだままその壁に触れたとき、彼らの腕は「消去」した――。触れた人間の肉体のみが消去される「ウォール」と名付けられたこの巨大な壁は、1日に20km程度という遅さながら、やがて北海道に上陸、本州も射程に、徐々に西へと、人々を飲み込んでいく。本土上陸から首都圏到達まで1か月ほどしか猶予はない。真実とデマが入り混じりながら拡散され、日本はパニックに包まれていく。「ウォール」が暗示するものは、人類を奈落に突き落とす自然災害や疫病であり、経済格差によって人々を「分断」するものであり、無慈悲な「神の制裁」であり、極めて「平等な...(展开全部)

この巨大な壁は何? 人々を消失させる恐怖のWALLから逃げられるのか? 202X年のある夏の日、シコタン島(色丹島)の墓地で祈りを捧げていた ロシア人老夫婦が、丘の上から半透明のヴェールが近づいていることに気づく。不思議に思った二人が手をつないだままその壁に触れたとき、彼らの腕は「消去」した――。触れた人間の肉体のみが消去される「ウォール」と名付けられたこの巨大な壁は、1日に20km程度という遅さながら、やがて北海道に上陸、本州も射程に、徐々に西へと、人々を飲み込んでいく。本土上陸から首都圏到達まで1か月ほどしか猶予はない。真実とデマが入り混じりながら拡散され、日本はパニックに包まれていく。「ウォール」が暗示するものは、人類を奈落に突き落とす自然災害や疫病であり、経済格差によって人々を「分断」するものであり、無慈悲な「神の制裁」であり、極めて「平等な...(展开全部)

Financial collapses--whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market--are often explained as the inevitable results of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to show how financial markets, and particularly booms and busts, are constructed. Through an...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly The timely question, What caused the current global financial crisis? provokes answers usually aimed at the level of institutions and the more abstract market logic. Ho's refreshing ethnography of the daily lives of Wall Street investment bankers takes another tack and outlines a web of practices, beliefs and structures that may be vital to understanding ...(展开全部)

Wall Street is where poker and modern finance and the theory behind these "games" clash head on. In both worlds, real risk means real money is made or lost in a heart beat, and neither camp is always rational with the risk it takes. As a result, business and financial professionals who want to use poker insights to improve their job performance will find this entertaining boo...(展开全部)