Dangerous Dreamers: The Financial Innovators from Charles Merrill to Michael MilkenBeard Books, 2000 - 276 páginas The story of the perpetrators of some of the most dizzing and daring financial machinations. |
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... activities . In his heyday , he had challenged the leadership of several large corporations , mak- ing powerful enemies . For years , federal officials had attempted to indict him on one charge or another ; some said the Justice ...
... activities . In his heyday , he had challenged the leadership of several large corporations , mak- ing powerful enemies . For years , federal officials had attempted to indict him on one charge or another ; some said the Justice ...
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... activities would not have been possible . That Wolfson never achieved the power of the latter two was due to the fact that there was no one like Milken on the scene in the 1950s . Had Milken arrived in the financial district , like ...
... activities would not have been possible . That Wolfson never achieved the power of the latter two was due to the fact that there was no one like Milken on the scene in the 1950s . Had Milken arrived in the financial district , like ...
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... activities at the firm . Capital Transit long had been a source of secure jobs for relatives of well - connected individuals . Wolfson ended this , antagonizing some of the powerful . His high dividends were accompanied by requests for ...
... activities at the firm . Capital Transit long had been a source of secure jobs for relatives of well - connected individuals . Wolfson ended this , antagonizing some of the powerful . His high dividends were accompanied by requests for ...
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... activities were not en- couraged , they had emerged orthodox and unimaginative . " When the crash . came in the thirties , no banker would admit where he worked , " recalled Citibank's Walter Wriston . " Nobody wanted to work for a bank ...
... activities were not en- couraged , they had emerged orthodox and unimaginative . " When the crash . came in the thirties , no banker would admit where he worked , " recalled Citibank's Walter Wriston . " Nobody wanted to work for a bank ...
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... activities like mergers , acquisitions , and proxy fights were rare . This was why Wolfson had paid little attention to bankers when going after Mont- gomery Ward . Those firms too small to sell new issues and without financial ...
... activities like mergers , acquisitions , and proxy fights were rare . This was why Wolfson had paid little attention to bankers when going after Mont- gomery Ward . Those firms too small to sell new issues and without financial ...
Contenido
The Use of Junk in Corporate Creation and Takeovers | 128 |
Rationalizing Takeovers | 129 |
Beatrice and ITT | 131 |
Plums in Petroleum | 133 |
T Boone Pickens and the New Corporate Raiders | 136 |
Boone Goes Hunting | 138 |
The Gulf War | 140 |
Drexel as Predator King | 146 |
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The Early Years at Drexel | 71 |
Relationship Trading | 75 |
Invading the Market | 78 |
Weaving the Drexel Network | 81 |
Tom Spiegel and Columbia SL | 84 |
Fred Carr and the Revolution in Insurance | 86 |
Doing Deals | 90 |
The Milken Partnerships | 93 |
Drexels Failures | 95 |
The Early Deals | 96 |
The New Breed | 100 |
The Rise of Ethnics on Wall Street | 102 |
Insider Trading | 107 |
The Yuppie Generation | 110 |
The Rebirth of the Hostile Takeover | 112 |
Blackmail | 116 |
Reinventing America | 121 |
Attacking the Mismanagers | 123 |
The Rise of the Trader | 125 |
The Business Roundtable Battles Back | 147 |
Cameomail from Phillips | 149 |
Dont Go Hunting Without It | 153 |
The Counterattack | 157 |
The Contest for Unocal Begins | 159 |
Fred Hartley Goes to Washington | 161 |
Fueling the Regulatory Fires | 164 |
Unocal Beats Back the Raiders | 165 |
The Takeover Debates | 169 |
The Great Debacle | 172 |
Boesky Talks | 174 |
Giuliani and RICO | 176 |
Targeting Milken | 178 |
The War on Drexel | 179 |
Capitulation | 182 |
Congress Piles on Junk | 183 |
The Crusade Continues | 186 |
The Academic Evidence on Junk | 187 |
Milken Predicts the End of the Junk Era | 191 |
Drexels Demise | 194 |
Crime and Punishment | 198 |
What Was Milkens Crime? | 199 |
The Fatico Hearing | 204 |
In the Court of Public Opinion | 209 |
Prison | 212 |
Demonization | 213 |
The Shadow of AntiSemitism | 215 |
The Verdict on Milken | 217 |
Notes | 220 |
Selected Bibliography | 239 |
Index | 249 |
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Dangerous Dreamers: The Financial Innovators from Charles Merrill to Michael ... Robert Sobel Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
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Página 107 - To make any untrue statement of a material fact or to omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or...
Página 244 - The Cost of Capital, Corporate Finance, and the Theory of Investment.
Página 106 - Greed is all right, by the way. I want you to know that. I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
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Página 48 - It creates nationwide marketing, managerial and financial structures whose enormous physical and psychological resources pose substantial barriers to smaller firms wishing to participate in a competitive market. And, finally, super-concentration creates a "community of interest" which discourages competition among large firms and establishes a tone in the marketplace for more and more mergers.