The unseen Wall Street of 1969-1975 : and its significance for today /
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| Author / Creator: | Benn, Alec, 1918- |
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| Imprint: | Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 2000. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 216 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11114674 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- How Members of the New York Stock Exchange
- Gained the Right to Sell Shares in Their Firms to the General Public
- Despite the Opposition of a Majority of the Members
- How the Central Certificate System Was Introduced and Other Early Bumbling with Computers
- The Hair-Raising Way Brokerage Accounts Came to Be Insured
- The Desirability of Permanent Capital Negotiating a Merger Obstacles to the Merger
- How and Why Ross Perot Saved the New York Stock Exchange from Possible Collapse
- How the New York Stock Exchange Came Much Closer--Much, Much Closer--to Collapse the Second Time
- How a Giant Investment Firm Very Nearly Went Bankrupt in 1971
- Potentially Causing Investors to Lose Millions of Dollars
- Despite the Existence of the Securities Investors Protection Corporation
- The Importance of Management Style
- The Reality of U.S. Government Employment
- How the U.S. Government Has Tried to Prevent Insider Trading
- And Why It Has Failed
- The Twists and Turns Toward the Reorganization of the New York Stock Exchange
- How NYSE Commissions, Traditionally Fixed and High, Became Competitive and Low, Despite the Opposition of Members of the New York Stock Exchange
- An Unintended Consequence of the Imposition of Competitive Commission Rates: A Boom in Soft Dollars
- How a Defiant Stockbroker Virtually Single-Handedly Enabled All Members of the New York Stock Exchange to Sell Annuities
- The Biggest Stock Fraud in the District Attorney's Memory
- A Cliff-Hanging Merger Meeting Deja Vu How and Why Discrimination Based on Class and Religion Declined on Wall Street
- The Different Reasons for the Decline in Racial and Gender Discrimination on Wall Street
- Significance Aftermath: The Perils of Partnerships
- Appendix Stock, Prices, Volumes and Fails 1968-1973
- Some Statistics Affecting Stock Prices and Volumes 1965-1975
- Bibliography
- Index