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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... 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 . The latter were de- picted ...
... 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 . The latter were de- picted ...
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... tion was due for a repeat of that disaster . He intended to accumulate cash , which would be utilized to expand once land and construction prices fell . Av- ery was not alone in his philosophy during the immediate postwar period , bur ...
... tion was due for a repeat of that disaster . He intended to accumulate cash , which would be utilized to expand once land and construction prices fell . Av- ery was not alone in his philosophy during the immediate postwar period , bur ...
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... tion to become a broker was a joke . In an era when few could hope for much success except those who came with family and other accounts , Merrill began to hire bright young men who showed promise , and he provided them with leads ...
... tion to become a broker was a joke . In an era when few could hope for much success except those who came with family and other accounts , Merrill began to hire bright young men who showed promise , and he provided them with leads ...
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... tion , especially when it came to a pension plan . Moreover , the " prudent- man rule " in many states mandated the purchase of high - quality bonds and , in some cases , preferred stock . This was easing , however , as the older ...
... tion , especially when it came to a pension plan . Moreover , the " prudent- man rule " in many states mandated the purchase of high - quality bonds and , in some cases , preferred stock . This was easing , however , as the older ...
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... tion criteria and were certain of their own abilities . Carr was probably the best known of the lot and the longest lived profes- sionally . His career ran from the era of go - go stocks to that of junk bonds , from Lou Wolfson to Mike ...
... tion criteria and were certain of their own abilities . Carr was probably the best known of the lot and the longest lived profes- sionally . His career ran from the era of go - go stocks to that of junk bonds , from Lou Wolfson to Mike ...
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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