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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... Takeover 112 Blackmail 116 7 Reinventing America 81 100 121 The Birth of the New Bull Market 121 The Rise of the Trader Attacking the Mismanagers 123 The Use of Junk in Corporate Creation and Takeovers 128 Rationalizing Takeovers 129 ...
... Takeover 112 Blackmail 116 7 Reinventing America 81 100 121 The Birth of the New Bull Market 121 The Rise of the Trader Attacking the Mismanagers 123 The Use of Junk in Corporate Creation and Takeovers 128 Rationalizing Takeovers 129 ...
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... Takeover Debates 169 10 The Great Debacle The Two - Pronged Assault 172 Boesky Talks 174 Giuliani and RICO 176 Targeting Milken 178 The War on Drexel 179 Capitulation 182 FIRREA : Congress Piles on Junk 183 The Crusade Continues 186 The ...
... Takeover Debates 169 10 The Great Debacle The Two - Pronged Assault 172 Boesky Talks 174 Giuliani and RICO 176 Targeting Milken 178 The War on Drexel 179 Capitulation 182 FIRREA : Congress Piles on Junk 183 The Crusade Continues 186 The ...
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... financial circles as late as 1983 , when he came to prominence by assisting Pickens in his at- tempted takeover of Gulf Oil . There was some stir in 1978 when Milken moved his operation to Beverly Hills ; note was taken 2 INTRODUCTION.
... financial circles as late as 1983 , when he came to prominence by assisting Pickens in his at- tempted takeover of Gulf Oil . There was some stir in 1978 when Milken moved his operation to Beverly Hills ; note was taken 2 INTRODUCTION.
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... takeovers , which affected the stock market . The other reason is Milken's personality , which is totally unlike that of any other major figure of the 1980s . He disliked publicity , and seemed to enjoy only three things : his work ...
... takeovers , which affected the stock market . The other reason is Milken's personality , which is totally unlike that of any other major figure of the 1980s . He disliked publicity , and seemed to enjoy only three things : his work ...
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... takeover . The conglomerateurs and raiders learned to profit from this situa- tion — in the process , distressing ... takeovers more difficult in the future . Battles like these occur during most money manias . In 1912-1913 , the Pujo ...
... takeover . The conglomerateurs and raiders learned to profit from this situa- tion — in the process , distressing ... takeovers more difficult in the future . Battles like these occur during most money manias . In 1912-1913 , the Pujo ...
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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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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