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The Law and Business of International Project Finance

admin — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:04:03 +0000

Project finance is used to build projects such as large-scale energy,
infrastructure, toll roads, ethanol, and recycling projects, as well as
many others. Project finance requires careful analysis and structuring
of a wide variety of risks. This completely updated third edition
addresses these risks and their resolution, and details the necessary
elements of a successful project financing. Mirroring the structure of
an actual project finance deal, this all-in-one handbook examines each
step of the process.

Forex Banking And Trading - The Law and Business of International Project Finance: A Resource for Governments, Sponsors, Lawyers, and Project Participants

The Federal Reserve Conspiracy

admin — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:03:24 +0000

A great book by a great author !

If your’re interested in fiscal policy, national debt, and money,
you would very much enjoy this book. With surgical precision, Sutton
has concisely made his case against the Federal Reserve establishment.
This book will not intimidate you nor bore you with financial details,
but will instead enlighten you about financial matters. Despite its
title, this book is not about conspiracies but about facts. The passing
of the Federal Reserve Act was the beginning of the biggest sell out in
our history at the hand of our politicians. It was a watershed event
that led to the privatization of our financial and political
establishments, and to the loss of our nation’s financial sovereignty
forever.

Somewhat of a disappointment

I was disappointed with the chapter on Karl Marx. Sutton talks
about Marx as being funded by the upper class in order to wage a class
war between the workers against the middle class. This seems to cross
the line to conspiracy, which I find much of a waste of time and
confusing for reality.

Forex Banking And Trading - The Federal Reserve Conspiracy

Financial Planning using Excel: Forecasting, Planning and Budgeting Techniques

admin — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:02:32 +0000

For all qualified and part qualified management accountants who use
Excel on a daily basis in budget planning, this book is a must. It
contains a wealth of practical examples, tips, new techniques all
designed to help you quickly exploit and master Excel to its full
advantage and therefore use spreadsheets for more effective management
accounting in your firm.

* Provides quick, useful guidance on how to use Excel in management accounting
* Covers basic principles of budgetary control
* Explains the latest techniques for the design and creation of budgets
Forex Banking And Trading - Financial Planning using Excel: Forecasting, Planning and Budgeting Techniques (CIMA Exam Support Books)

A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1: 1913-1951

admin — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:02:03 +0000

To understand why the Federal Reserve acted as it did at key points in
its history, Meltzer draws on meeting minutes, correspondence, and
other internal documents (many made public only during the 1970s) to
trace the reasoning behind its policy decisions. He explains, for
instance, why the Federal Reserve remained passive throughout most of
the economic decline that led to the Great Depression, and how the
Board’s actions helped to produce the deep recession of 1937 and 1938.
He also highlights the impact on the institution of individuals such as
Benjamin Strong, governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in
the 1920s, who played a key role in the adoption of a more active
monetary policy by the Federal Reserve. Meltzer also examines the
influence the Federal Reserve has had on international affairs, from
attempts to build a new international financial system in the 1920s to
the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944 that established the International
Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the failure of the London
Economic Conference of 1933.

Written by one of the world’s
leading economists, this magisterial biography of the Federal Reserve
and the people who helped shape it will interest economists, central
bankers, historians, political scientists, policymakers, and anyone
seeking a deep understanding of the institution that controls America’s
purse strings.
Forex Banking And Trading - A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1: 1913-1951

So You Want to Be a Mortgage Broker

admin — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:01:36 +0000

Very Disappointed

This book was extremely BASIC. Hardly any useful information at
all. If you have ever taken out a mortgage, you already know most of
this. It was almost a total waste of money. The main focus of this book
is to sell you a much more expensive program(s).

Going to enter the mortgage business

really liked the section on what a typical day is like for a loan
officer. But the best part, and something no one I talked to in the
mortgage business was willing to talk about, was the section of how
loan officers get paid. The author explains the frontend and the
backend and how a loan officer can manipulate the numbers to make the
client think they are getting a deal, but the loan officer is still
making his money too.

If you are thinking about getting into the mortgage business, like
I am, this book is a great place to start. Once you understand all the
concepts in it, you will know what to talk about to propestive
employers, and what questions to ask. Otherwise you are just going in
blind.

Forex Banking And Trading - So You Want to Be a Mortgage Broker

Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law

admin — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:00:18 +0000

This is a good, interesting, and useful book. …The book’s wide appeal
derives from how it goes about studying its subject, as well as from
the interest of the subject itself. …The authors ‘develop an economic
rationale for investment bankers’. In other words, they develop an
economic
explanation of why they exist - they discover what it is
that they contribute to the functioning of a market economy. …Every
chapter is worth reading…The authors have combined economic analysis,
economic history, and knowledge of law in a short and readable book.
They are to be congratulated. I
await their next publication with eager anticipation.”–Geoffrey Wood, for Economic Affairs
Forex Banking And Trading - Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law

Funny Money

admin — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:59:34 +0000

rom esteemed New Yorker writer Mark Singer comes this cautionary tale
of the Penn Square Bank, the oil and gas broker in an Oklahoma City
shopping mall whose collapse in 1982 staggered America’s banking
industry. Recounting the whole spectacular story and its colorful
characters, Singer makes brilliantly (and hilariously) clear what
actually happened and why it had to happen in boom-time Oklahoma.
Nowhere else did money flow in quite the same spontaneous fashion. “[A]
tale of wonderful verve” (New York Times), Funny Money comes to life
through Singer’s vivid prose and continues to resonate in today’s
culture of corporate corruption.
Forex Banking And Trading - Funny Money

Dead Bank Walking: One Gutsy Bank’s Struggle for Survival and the Merger That Changed Banking Forever

admin — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:59:10 +0000

Dead Bank Walking shuttles the reader from elaborate bankers
conventions in Hawaii to contentious Board Rooms. It peeks through the
crevices of high finance, as Smith and Richard Flamson–an outspoken
and gutsy chairman dying of a rare blood disease–embark on a strategic
acquisition spree that ultimately extends the bank’s vision to include
worldwide securities companies and a controversial and ultimately
dangerous Merchant Bank.

Too far too fast? Absolutely. When
economic recession pounds California and Security Pacific’s stock
slides, consultants warn management to halt the acquistions and if
possible locate a merger partner. If Smith can’t, the Board will find
someone who can. A potentially momentous merger with Wells Fargo Bank
falls through at the eleventh hour and an uncanny sequence of events
brings Security Pacific to the brink of disaster. Smith’s colorful
management team labors to solve the problems and ultimately embarks on
a year-long odyssey with Richard Rosenberg, Chairman and CEO of Bank of
America.

Forex Banking And Trading - Dead Bank Walking: One Gutsy Bank’s Struggle for Survival and the Merger That Changed Banking Forever

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admin — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:47:06 +0000

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100% Whey Protein

admin — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:15:05 +0000

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