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“Captivating . . . [Lowenstein] makes what subsequently occurred at Treasury and on Wall Street during the early 1860s seem as enthralling as what transpired on the battlefield or at the White House.” —Harold Holzer, Wall Street Journal“Ways and Means, an account of the Union’s financial policies, examines a subject long overshadowed by military narratives . . .  Lowenstein is a lucid stylist, able to explain financial matters to readers who l...

From renowned journalist and master storyteller Roger Lowenstein, a revelatory financial investigation into how Lincoln and his administration used the funding of the Civil War as the catalyst to centralize the government and accomplish the most far-reaching reform in the country's history Upon his election to the presidency, Lincoln inherited a country in crisis. Even before the Confederacy's secession, the Treasury of the United States had r...

Warren Buffett hat es geschafft: An der Börse wurde er zu einem der reichsten Männer der Welt. Sein unglaublicher Investmenterfolg machte Buffett zur Ikone vieler Anleger. Buffett fasziniert: Er ist ein Milliardär, der einen unglaublich bescheidenen Lebensstil pflegt. Er ist ein sagenhaft erfolgreicher Anleger, der die Trading-Methoden der modernen Börsen verabscheut. Er ist ein brillanter Verhandler mit einer beinahe hausbackenen Ausstrahlung.

Benjamin Graham developed "value investing" based on "fundamental analysis, " which quantitatively compares a company's stock price to various measures of financial strength and promise. "Growth investing" is a fundamentally different style that seeks to identify tomorrow's great business successes.

This definitive account of the dot-com boom and bust is offered by "one of the best financial journalists there is" ("The New York Times Book Review").

A tour de force of historical reportage, America's Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America's modern central bank, the Federal Reserve. Today, the Fed is the bedrock of the financial landscape, yet the fight to create it was so protracted and divisive that it seems a small miracle that it was ever established. For nearly a century, America, alone among developed nations, refuse...

So hätte es nicht kommen dürfen. Drei Jahre sorgten zwei Nobelpreisträger und ein gewiefter Wall-Street-Händler dafür, dass superreiche Investoren mit dem Finanzdienstleister Long-Term Capital Management noch reicher werden konnten. Plötzlich aber brach das Kartenhaus aus Schulden, milliardenschweren Spekulationen und internationalen Arbitragegeschäften in sich zusammen. Long-Term Capital stand vor dem Ruin. Roger Lowenstein zeichnet eine der ...

This revelatory work offers a blow-by-blow account of America's biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression. Drawing on 180 interviews, Lowenstein tells, with grace, wit, and razor-sharp understanding, the full story of the end of Wall Street.

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A tour de force of historical reportage, America's Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America's modern central bank, the Federal Reserve. Today, the Fed is the bedrock of the financial landscape, yet the fight to create it was so protracted and divisive that it seems a small miracle that it was ever established. For nearly a century, America, alone among developed nations, refuse...

Amerikas Geschichte als Weltfinanzmacht begann einen Tag vor Weihnachten. Am 23. Dezember 1913 unterzeichnete Präsident Woodrow Wilson den Federal Reserve Act. Es ist die Geburtsstunde der Federal Reserve, der amerikanischen Zentralbank, der Fed. Was 1910 mit acht Männern als getarnte Entenjagd im Ferienhaus des Senators Nelson W. Aldrich auf der entlegenen Jekyll Island begann, ist heute eine der mächtigsten Institutionen der Welt.Die Gründun...

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From the bestselling author of "Buffett" and "Origins of the Crash" comes a wake-up call to the pension and retirement crisis facing America and the road map for a way out.

Now revised and updated by the author, "Buffett" draws on three years of unprecedented access to Buffett's family, friends, and colleagues to provide the definitive inside account of the life and career of this American original.

In While America Aged, bestselling author Roger Lowenstein explains how corporations and governments ran up ruinous pension and health-care promises to workers--promises that are now coming due and that will hit America like a tsunami if nothing is done. Negotiating high benefits means gambling with future finances--and when the farm gets sold out from underneath major corporations or public institutions, it affects all of us, and in ways we m...

The incredible true story of a group of elite investors who believed they could beat the market and, like alchemists, create limitless wealth for themselves and their partners. In fact, they created a trillion-dollar hole in the international banking system.