Rainbow's end the crash of 1929
The book offers a vibrant picture of a world full of plungers, powerful bankers, corporate titans, millionaire brokers, and buoyantly optimistic stock market bulls. We meet Sunshine Charley Mitchell, head of the National City Bank, powerful financiers Jack Morgan and Jacob Schiff, Wall Street manipu...
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Oxford [England],New York
Oxford University Press
2001
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| 100 | |a Klein, Maury | ||
| 245 | 0 | |a Rainbow's end | |
| 245 | 4 | |b the crash of 1929 | |
| 245 | 0 | |c Maury Klein | |
| 260 | |a Oxford [England],New York | ||
| 260 | |b Oxford University Press | ||
| 260 | |c 2001 | ||
| 300 | |a 345 p. | ||
| 300 | |b ill. | ||
| 300 | |c 25 cm | ||
| 520 | |a The book offers a vibrant picture of a world full of plungers, powerful bankers, corporate titans, millionaire brokers, and buoyantly optimistic stock market bulls. We meet Sunshine Charley Mitchell, head of the National City Bank, powerful financiers Jack Morgan and Jacob Schiff, Wall Street manipulators such as the legendary Jesse Livermore, and the lavish-living Billy Durant, founder of General Motors. As Klein follows the careers of these men, he shows us how the financial house of cards gradually grew taller, as the irrational exuberance of an earlier age gripped America and convinced us that the market would continue to rise forever. Then, in October 1929, came a "perfect storm"-like convergence of factors that shook Wall Street to its foundations. We relive Black Thursday, when police lined Wall Street, brokers grew hysterical, customers "bellowed like lunatics," and the ticker tape fell hours behind. This is followed by the even worse Bloody Tuesday, when an irrational desire to sell at any price gripped the market and even blue chip stocks plummeted precariously | ||
| 650 | |a Depressions; Depressions; Stock Market Crash; United States | ||
| 700 | |a Maury Klein | ||
| 980 | |a Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh | ||