Beschreibung:
"Timely, concise, accessible to the lay reader and with a decorously polemical edge, it is both revealing and entertaining. No matter what the politicians do, the markets will find a way to challenge the finaglers and the optimists who sustain them. Like the poor, the shorts will always be with us."Spear's
1. History Repeated 2. Assumption, Hamilton, Jefferson, and Financial Speculation 3. New York Is Our Financial Center; Washington Political 4. East Versus West and Frederick Jackson Turner 5. Money Trusts 6. "The Paranoid Style" 7. The Loan Crowd 8. The Crash of '29 9. Rumors, Foreign Powers, and Bear Raids 10. Missouri-Kansas Pipeline 11. The Villain Becomes Apparent 12. The NYSE Was the First Prime Broker 13. Pecora Winds Up and the Shorts Unwind 14. What Is a TICK? 15. The United States Versus Henry S. Morgan 16. Circuit Breakers 17. The Largest Unregulated Banking System 18. Today As Yesterday and the Day Before