The unseen Wall Street of 1969-1975 : and its significance for today /

The unseen Wall Street of 1969-1975 : and its significance for today /

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Author / Creator:Benn, Alec, 1918-
Imprint:Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 2000.
Description:xxii, 216 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
New York Stock Exchange -- History -- 20th century.
New York Stock Exchange.
Wall Street -- History -- 20th century.
Stock exchanges -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Stock exchanges.
New York (State) -- New York -- Wall Street.
United States.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4309727
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ISBN:1567203337 (acid-free paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-210) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Some of the People of Historical Importance Who Appear in this Book
  • 1.. 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
  • 2.. How the Central Certificate System Was Introduced and Other Early Bumbling with Computers
  • 3.. The Hair-Raising Way Brokerage Accounts Came to Be Insured
  • 4.. The Desirability of Permanent Capital
  • 5.. Negotiating a Merger
  • 6.. Obstacles to the Merger
  • 7.. How and Why Ross Perot Saved The New York Stock Exchange from Possible Collapse
  • 8.. How The New York Stock Exchange Came Closer--Much, Much Closer--to Collapse the Second Time
  • 9.. 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
  • 10.. The Importance of Management Style
  • 11.. The Reality of U.S. Government Employment
  • 12.. How the U.S. Government Has Tried to Prevent Insider Trading--And Why It Has Failed
  • 13.. The Twists and Turns toward the Reorganization of The New York Stock Exchange
  • 14.. How NYSE Commissions, Traditionally Fixed and High, Became Competitive and Low, Despite the Opposition of Most Members of The New York Stock Exchange
  • 15.. An Unintended Consequence of the Imposition of Competitive Commission Rates: A Boom in Soft Dollars
  • 16.. How a Defiant Stockbroker Virtually Single-Handedly Enabled All Members of The New York Stock Exchange to Sell Annuities
  • 17.. The Biggest Stock Fraud in the District Attorney's Memory
  • 18.. A Cliff-Hanging Merger Meeting
  • 19.. Deja Vu
  • 20.. How and Why Discrimination Based on Class and Religion Declined on Wall Street
  • 21.. The Different Reasons for the Decline in Racial and Gender Discrimination on Wall Street
  • 22.. Significance
  • 23.. Aftermath: The Perils of Partnerships
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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