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1 online resource |
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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Some of the People of Historical Importance Who Appear in this Book -- How Members of The New York Stock Exchange Gained the Right to Sell Shares in Their Firms to the General Public Despite the Opposition of a Majority of the Members -- How the Central Certificate System Was Introduced and Other Early Bumbling with Computers -- The Hair-Raising Way Brokerage Accounts Came to Be Insured -- The Desirability of Permanent Capital -- Negotiating a Merger -- Obstacles to the Merger |
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How and Why Ross Perot Saved The New York Stock Exchange from Possible Collapse -- How The New York Stock Exchange Came Closer- Much, Much Closer- to Collapse the Second Time -- How a Giant Investment Firm Very Nearly Went Bankrupt in 1971, Potentially Causing Investors to Lose Millions of Dollars Despite the Existence of the Securities Investors Protection Corporation -- The Importance of Management Style -- The Reality of U.S. Government Employment -- How the U.S. Government Has Tried to Prevent Insider Trading- And Why It Has Failed |
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The Twists and Turns toward the Reorganization of The New York Stock Exchange -- How NYSE Commissions, Traditionally Fixed and High, Became Competitive and Low, Despite the Opposition of Most Members of The New York Stock Exchange -- An Unintended Consequence of the Imposition of Competitive Commission -- Rates: A Boom in Soft Dollars -- How a Defiant Stockbroker Virtually Single- Handedly Enabled All Members of The New York Stock Exchange to Sell Annuities -- The Biggest Stock Fraud in the District Attorney's Memory -- A Cliff-Hanging Merger Meeting -- Deja Vu |
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How and Why Discrimination Based on Class and Religion Declined on Wall Street -- The Different Reasons for the Decline in Racial and Gender Discrimination on Wall Street -- Significance -- Aftermath: The Perils of Partnerships -- Appendix -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Annotation. "Alec Benn offers a look at America's investment community at a time of changes so profound that their impact and implications are still with us. Benn's book is based not on public relations handouts, but on frank, revealing talks with people who actually participated in the events of those tumultuous seven years, official oral histories (hitherto concealed), and his own observations."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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New York Stock Exchange -- History -- 20th century
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New York Stock Exchange |
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Securities industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Stock exchanges -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Securities industry
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Stock exchanges
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1567203337 |
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9781567203332 |
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9780313004490 |
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0313004498 |
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