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1. The financial markets and fear itself

Author

Jenkins, Jr., Holman W.

Subjects
United States. Federal Reserve Board -- Powers and duties -- Management, Business-government relations -- Management -- Economic aspects -- Analysis, Risk assessment -- Economic aspects -- Analysis, Wall Street -- Management -- Securities -- Analysis -- Economic aspects, Subprime loans -- Economic aspects -- Analysis, Political science, Company securities, Company business management, Management, Powers and duties, Securities, Economic aspects, Analysis
Abstract

ECONOMISTS AND JOURNALISTS and business professors have struggled to explain the rush of Wall Street firms in the years 2004-06 into creating securities backed by mortgages to marginal borrowers, now [...]

Published
2009

2. The new economy's sore losers

Author

Jenkins, Jr., Holman W.

Subjects
Enron Creditors Recovery Corp. -- Finance -- Forecasts and trends, American Household Inc. -- Finance -- Forecasts and trends, Amazon.com Inc. -- Finance -- Forecasts and trends, Investment analysis -- Evaluation, Stock options -- Evaluation -- Influence, Gas transmission industry -- Forecasts and trends, Leveraged buyouts -- Influence -- Forecasts and trends, Booksellers -- Forecasts and trends -- Evaluation, Stocks -- Prices and rates, Home appliances industry -- Evaluation -- Forecasts and trends, Market capitalization -- Forecasts and trends, Political science, Company financing, Market trend/market analysis, Influence, Finance, Evaluation, Forecasts and trends
Abstract

THE BUSINESS SCANDALS that roiled the first two years of President George W. Bush's administration, not to mention the long boom that led up to the scandals, are best understood [...]

Published
2003

3. Pornography, Main Street To Wall Street

Author

JENKINS JR., HOLMAN W.

Subjects
United States. Federal Trade Commission -- Reports -- Laws, regulations and rules, Sex in motion pictures -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Reports, Entertainment industry -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Reports, Sex oriented businesses -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Reports, Pornography -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Reports, Sex in mass media -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Reports, Internet -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Reports, Political science, Government regulation, Internet, Reports, Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract

PORNOGRAPHY IS NOT a subject one would expect to come up at a baby shower. But there I was when two Manhattan women of my acquaintance began discussing the web [...]

Published
2001

4. Of Bulls and Bubbles

Author

Jenkins Jr., Holman W.

Subjects
The New Strategy of Profiting from the Coming Rise in the Stock Market (Book), Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Political science
Abstract

EDWARD CHANCELLOR. Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation. FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX. 386 PAGES. $25.00 JAMES K. GLASSMAN & KEVIN A. HASSETT. Dow 36,000: The New Strategy [...]

Published
1999

5. The Way the World Works

Author

JENKINS., JR, HOLMAN W.

Subjects
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (Book), Books -- Book reviews, Political science
Abstract

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX. 382 PAGES. $27.50 ONE OF THE MOST misunderstood formulations of economics is 'comparative advantage.' All [...]

Published
1999

6. Too Rich to Win : Bill Gates and the jurisprudence of envy

Author

Jenkins Jr., Holman W.

Subjects
Microsoft Corp. -- Cases, United States. Department of Justice. Antitrust Division -- Cases, Rich -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Cases, Antitrust law -- Cases, Computer software industry -- Cases, Executives -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Cases, Political science, Company legal issue, Antitrust issue, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Cases
Abstract

Any normal person would have found in Judge Thomas P. Jackson's 'finding of fact' in the Microsoft case an invigorating tale of battle, maneuver, and compromise in the high-tech marketplace. [...]

Published
1999

7. Anti-Depressant

Author

Jenkins, Jr., Holman W.

Subjects
The Return of Depression Economics (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Political science
Abstract

The Return of Depression Economics, by Paul Krugman (Norton, 176 pp., $23.95) The world economy has been looking up since this book went to press. Asia shows signs of bouncing [...]

Published
1999

8. Capital Crimes

Author

Jenkins JR., Holman W.

Subjects
Turbo-Capitalism: Winners and Losers in the Global Economy (Book), The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered (Book), Books -- Book reviews, Political science
Abstract

Turbo-Capitalism: Winners and Losers in the Global Economy, by Edward Luttwak (HarperCollins, 290 pp., $26) The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered, by George Soros (Public Affairs, 245 pp., [...]

Published
1999

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