Author: United States. Air Force. Historical Research Center
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Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Author: United States. Air Force. Historical Research Center
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Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Doug Henwood
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ISBN: 9780860916703
Category : Capital
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A scathing dissection of the wheeling and dealing in the world's greatest financial center. Spot rates, zero coupons, blue chips, futures, options on futures, indexes, options on indexes. The vocabulary of a financial market can seem arcane, even impenetrable. Yet despite its opacity, financial news and comment is ubiquitous. Major national newspapers devote pages of newsprint to the financial sector and television news invariably features a visit to the market for the latest prices. Does this prodigious flow of information have significance for anyone except the tiny percentage of people who have significant holdings of stocks or bonds? And if it does, can non-specialists ever hope to understand what the markets are up to? To these questions Wall Street answers an emphatic yes. Its author Doug Henwood is a notorious scourge of the stock exchange in the pages of his acerbic publication Left Business Observer. The Newsletter has received wide acclamation from J.K. Galbraith, among others, and occasional less favorable comment. Norman Pearlstine, then executive editor of the Wall Street Journal, lamented, 'You are scum ... it's tragic that you exist.' With compelling clarity, Henwood dissects the world's greatest financial center, laying open the intricacies of how, and for whom, the market works. The Wall Street which emerges is not a pretty sight. Hidden from public view, the markets are poorly regulated, badly managed, chronically myopic and often corrupt. And though, as Henwood reveals, their activity contributes almost nothing to the real economy where goods are made and jobs created, they nevertheless wield enormous power. With over a trillion dollars a day crossing the wires between the world's banks, Wall Street and its sister financial centers don't just influence government, effectively they are the government.

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1644

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1200

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Author: Air Force History and Museums Program (U.S.)
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Category : Military history
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Author: Air Force History and Museums Program (U.S.)
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 910

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Author: Gayle J. Hardy (Davis)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313078661
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 381

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Revised and updated, this compendium helps readers identify and understand the scope of key government reference sources-traditional books (including publications catalogs and telephone directories); information clearinghouses; and materials in new formats, such as CD-ROMs, datafiles, and Internet sites. The authors focus on free information and depository materials-both readily available through toll-free phone numbers, mail or e-mail requests to agencies, or federal depository library collections. Materials are fully described in annotations that differentiate between similar materials, identify typical citation formats, and note common abbreviations