Business : Corporate & Business History

The trail of Wells Fargo runs through nearly every imaginable landscape and icon of frontier folklore: the California Gold Rush, the Pony Express, the transcontinental railroad, the Civil and Indian Wars. From the Great Plains to the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean, the company's operations embraced almost all social, cultural, and economic activities west of the Mississippi, following one of the greatest migrations in American history. more...

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No one would have blamed the management and employees of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods for giving up. The September 11 terrorist attack killed one-third of the company’s staff and obliterated its headquarters. Yet the men and women of KBW refused to quit. more...

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Breaking the chains of the bond market… This book goes behind the headlines of the Wall Street Journal to unmask the “bondholding class”. Insulated from criticism by a self-serving ideology, the bondholders have redefined the indicators of economic well-being decidedly in Wall Street's favor. Created out of the fiscal folly of Reaganomics, fortified by Federal Reserve officials, and patronized by the Clinton Administration, the bondholding class invented the “Goldilocks economy” (never too hot, never too cold). As this powerful class has amassed the greatest wealth in history, ordinary Americans have been losing ground to the ensuing global financial turbulence. more...

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A guide to the politicos, money men, lobbyists, and deal makers who really run America. What foreign country has the power to send America crashing into a recession? Why is the USA still dangerously dependent on oil, when viable energy alternatives have existed for decades? Who made the call that we should return to nuclear energy—and then took a high-paying position with a nuclear company? Which youth group was a spawning ground for many contemporary power mongers? What lobbyists and special-interest groups are running the show on Capitol Hill—and exactly what tools of persuasion are they using?. Melissa Rossi answers these questions and more in this timely and topical guide to who’s pulling the strings behind the scenes of American politics. This latest edition of Rossi’s popular What Every American Should Know. . . series puts the spotlight on our own backyard, covering topics like:. • Which groups ensure that Americans pay more for drugs than any other nation. • How our immigration laws are damaging the U.S. economy. • Who’s telling the school boards what your child will learn. • Who really benefits from U.S. foreign policy. • How corporations and government agencies are spying on us. • Why we should avoid electronic voting. • Who killed the electric car and who exposed it. Organized by topic for easy reference, What Every American Should Know About Who’s Really Running America shows Americans what is going on behind the scenes and how they can counterbalance the influence of a small, powerful elite to put the power back where it should be—in the hands of the people. more...

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The collapse of Enron caught almost everyone by surprise, from employees and investors to analysts and creditors. But how did the seventh largest company in the Fortune 500 plummet into bankruptcy and implode so quickly? You’ve read the press accounts and watched Lay, Skilling, Fastow, and the Arthur Andersen accountants tell their conflicting stories to Congress or plead 'the Fifth', but despite this information you’re probably still in search of answers as to what really went wrong at Enron. more...

Price: $14.95