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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... attempted to indict him on one charge or another ; some said the Justice Department had been influenced by his opponents . He was an outsider , and he was being penal- ized not so much for violating laws as for attempting to crack the ...
... attempted to indict him on one charge or another ; some said the Justice Department had been influenced by his opponents . He was an outsider , and he was being penal- ized not so much for violating laws as for attempting to crack the ...
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... built up assiduously and flawlessly . 10 So flawlessly , indeed , that although countless attempts have been made to produce the ' real ' Wolfson , none has succeeded in producing the slightest tear in the legend itself . THE JUNKMAN 11.
... built up assiduously and flawlessly . 10 So flawlessly , indeed , that although countless attempts have been made to produce the ' real ' Wolfson , none has succeeded in producing the slightest tear in the legend itself . THE JUNKMAN 11.
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... attempting to make Textron , which many deem the first true conglomerate , a dominant factor in the textile industry . Little would provide conglomeration with a ration- ale , as would others who followed , but Wolfson got there first ...
... attempting to make Textron , which many deem the first true conglomerate , a dominant factor in the textile industry . Little would provide conglomeration with a ration- ale , as would others who followed , but Wolfson got there first ...
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... Transit . Wolfson's intent , Avery claimed , was to strip Montgomery Ward of its assets . The board was attempting to protect " honest and capable managements " from " financial pirates , " whose sole THE JUNKMAN 19 Sewell Avery Fights ...
... Transit . Wolfson's intent , Avery claimed , was to strip Montgomery Ward of its assets . The board was attempting to protect " honest and capable managements " from " financial pirates , " whose sole THE JUNKMAN 19 Sewell Avery Fights ...
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... attempts to make the most money with the least work . It is clean . It is pure . It is without cant . " Such brokers made sales to college chums , members of clubs they fre- quented , relatives , and others in that milieu . Their idea ...
... attempts to make the most money with the least work . It is clean . It is pure . It is without cant . " Such brokers made sales to college chums , members of clubs they fre- quented , relatives , and others in that milieu . Their idea ...
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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James Ling and the Conglomerate Era | 37 |
The Birth of LTV | 38 |
Project Redeployment | 41 |
Golfball Goofball and Meatball | 42 |
The Unraveling | 46 |
Endgame | 49 |
Michael MilkenThe Outsider | 55 |
Creativity on Demand | 58 |
Enter Milken | 62 |
The Academic Foundations of Milkenism | 64 |
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 |
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Selected Bibliography | 239 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Dangerous Dreamers: The Financial Innovators from Charles Merrill to Michael ... Robert Sobel Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
Términos y frases comunes
acquisitions American April assets bankers became Beverly Hills Boesky Boone Pickens Brady brokerage brokers Business Week capital Carl Icahn cash charges common stock companies conglomerate Corporate crime Dahl deal debt decade default dividends Drexel Burnham Lambert Drexel client earnings equity Executive firm Forbes Fred Giuliani greenmail guilty Gulf Hartley High Yield hostile takeovers Icahn indictment industry insider trading Institutional Investor interest rates investment banks issues James Ling Joseph junk bonds junk financing Justice Department late later leveraged buyout Liman Ling major March ment merger Merrill Lynch Mesa Michael Milken Mike Milken million shares Montgomery Ward mutual funds NYSE offer pension percent period petroleum Phillips plea bargain profits purchase raid raiders raise Salomon securities sell sentence shareholders sold Spiegel stockholders target tender thrifts tion told underwriting Unocal Wall Street Journal wanted Washington Wolfson York
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