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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... profit from this situa- tion — in the process , distressing managements . In the 1980s , CEOs fought back through the forum of public relations , establishing the impression that the raiders and their bankers created nothing useful ...
... profit from this situa- tion — in the process , distressing managements . In the 1980s , CEOs fought back through the forum of public relations , establishing the impression that the raiders and their bankers created nothing useful ...
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... profit of more than $ 1.6 million . Wolfson conceded that he did make the sales , but claimed he didn't know he was doing anything illegal . Indeed , he had reported the transactions on his income tax forms for the years involved ...
... profit of more than $ 1.6 million . Wolfson conceded that he did make the sales , but claimed he didn't know he was doing anything illegal . Indeed , he had reported the transactions on his income tax forms for the years involved ...
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... profits are possible for those who understand this and arc prepared to take relatively minor risks for large rewards . They and others , who follow their leads , are often brought low by excesses . Yet without them , business creativity ...
... profits are possible for those who understand this and arc prepared to take relatively minor risks for large rewards . They and others , who follow their leads , are often brought low by excesses . Yet without them , business creativity ...
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... profits . Once he bought what seemed a hcterogenous collection of fencing , barbed wire , and plumbing parts , for $ 275 , which he sold over the next few months for a profit of over $ 100,000 . During the war , Wolf- son occasionally ...
... profits . Once he bought what seemed a hcterogenous collection of fencing , barbed wire , and plumbing parts , for $ 275 , which he sold over the next few months for a profit of over $ 100,000 . During the war , Wolf- son occasionally ...
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... profits slide . In 1954 , the company had $ 50 a share in cash and securities alone , at a time when the stock was ... profit , this being the " greenmail " approach that became so notorious in the 1980s . Such procedures were ...
... profits slide . In 1954 , the company had $ 50 a share in cash and securities alone , at a time when the stock was ... profit , this being the " greenmail " approach that became so notorious in the 1980s . Such procedures were ...
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.
Página 64 - Archilochus: the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
Página 172 - goods and services" that the Bill has in mind would certainly include the cost of fuel purchased from a fuel subsidiary. The report of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce...
Página 108 - Where an insider has possession of facts that are known to him by virtue of his status and that, if known generally, would tend materially to affect the price of the security, the law requires that the insider disclose these facts to those with whom he deals or forego the transaction.
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Página 177 - It shall be unlawful for any person through a pattern of racketeering activity or through collection of an unlawful debt to acquire or maintain, directly or indirectly, any interest in or control of any enterprise which is engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce.
Página 184 - LOS IONS High yield bonds have been good investments in relation to other investments for thrifts during a period of unprecedented peacetime economic expansion. So far, the returns on an actively managed and diversified portfolio of high yield bonds have been higher than returns on alternative investments, after accounting for comparative risk. However, whether this will continue to be the case is uncertain.
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.