... saying WallStreet would snuff it out.” He wasn’t crazy about the Street, but he believed that because WallStreet firms were the gatekeepers between the lenders (and hence the homeowners) and the ... living in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California After the loan was made, he would service the debt (collect the monthly payments), and in the event the loan became late, cure the In the consumer ... “If the marshal had to, he’d kick in the door, guns drawn, dogs barking,” Cugno said “You might have the bald granny in there, the kids, the grandkids We’d put all their stuff on the sidewalk Then...
... longrange weather forecasts They carry with them foul-weather gear, and they 34 THE NEW REALITY OF WALLSTREET pull ashore and into campsites if telltale cloud and wind changes signal that the official ... have collapsed At the time, I was a portfolio strategist for Wertheim, a leading WallStreet research shop (I recall the anguish of that day vividly, 16 THE NEW REALITY OF WALLSTREET CHART 1-4 ... utterance The typical postwar economic cycle comes in stages: The existence of the recession becomes apparent The Fed slashes interest rates and expands the money supply 20 THE NEW REALITY OF WALL STREET...
... longrange weather forecasts They carry with them foul-weather gear, and they 34 THE NEW REALITY OF WALLSTREET pull ashore and into campsites if telltale cloud and wind changes signal that the official ... have collapsed At the time, I was a portfolio strategist for Wertheim, a leading WallStreet research shop (I recall the anguish of that day vividly, 16 THE NEW REALITY OF WALLSTREET CHART 1-4 ... utterance The typical postwar economic cycle comes in stages: The existence of the recession becomes apparent The Fed slashes interest rates and expands the money supply 20 THE NEW REALITY OF WALL STREET...
... accounting and WallStreet in the twentieth century, beginning with the boom and bust of the 1920s and the creation of the S.E.C in 1934 For the seeds of the system’s failure were present from the very ... figure options as income, either, until you cash them in Then there’s the other side of the ledger: spending and saving The distinction is usually clear, although the line blurs at your mortgage ... know the answer, without much trouble Why shouldn’t Exxon and General Motors? They should, and they Every quarter they add up their sales and costs, and figure out where they stand Then they...
... analysis of the effectiveness of the firm’s management team, the competitive environment of its industry, the regulatory environment, and the effectiveness of the firm’s corporate governance The financial ... considered or the quantitative definition of the rating, greater benefit can be provided to the market and the users of ratings via further enhancements to the transparency and clarity of the rating ... with the terms of the obligation Nature and provisions of the obligation Protection afforded by, and relative position of, the obligation in the event of the bankruptcy, reorganization, or other...
... both the c-structure and the f-structure of the parse For example, the WSJs ADJP-PRD label must correspond to an AP in the c-structure and an XCOMP in the f-structure In this version of the corpus, ... of the same lexical item are indicated explicitly in the LFG representation but not in the DR representation The main conceptual difference between the two annotation schemes is the fact that the ... of the cases The average sentence length of the WSJ f-structure bank is 19.8 words; the average number of predicate-argument relations in the goldstandard f-structures is 31.2 Performance on the...
... for recovering these labels The following is ,an ex~unple of a partially parsed sentence found in the Penn Treeb~mk: S NP I Training Corpus The experiments use texts from theWallStreet Journ~d ... negligible In the above formula, the probability P(c) of the partially bracketed sentence c is computed as the sum of the probabilities of all derivations compatible with the bracketing of the sentence ... a variety of subsets of the corpus as training data When the entire WallStreet Journal corpus was used as training material, the time required for training has been further reduced by using a...
... put their fingers in the dyke In the interim between the outgoing Hoover administration and the first years of the New Deal, they would achieve their longest-lasting victories In the 1920s, they ... Lehman Brothers, and Goldman Sachs Between them, they formed the nucleus of early WallStreet underwriting syndicates They were so successful that many of them were dubbed the “money trust” in the ... and the ball began rolling for serious reform Since the first years of the twentieth century, WallStreet and the East Coast establishment had been at loggerheads with the rest of the country Wall...
... be in the world.” —David Gaffen, author of Never Buy Another Stock Again The Other Side of WallStreet provides an immensely personal, insider’s view of the turbulent past decade on WallStreet ... be true to themselves and find some semblance of balance The Other Side of WallStreet ends with Chapter 18 aptly titled The Journey,” but there are now another dozen chapters since the book was ... perspectives They resonated— people liked them It occurred to me that nobody had ever branded theWallStreet bull and bear CHAPTER • THE AGE OF INNOCENCE Hoofy the Bull and Boo the Bear There was...
... accounting and WallStreet in the twentieth century, beginning with the boom and bust of the 1920s and the creation of the S.E.C in 1934 For the seeds of the system’s failure were present from the very ... figure options as income, either, until you cash them in Then there’s the other side of the ledger: spending and saving The distinction is usually clear, although the line blurs at your mortgage ... know the answer, without much trouble Why shouldn’t Exxon and General Motors? They should, and they Every quarter they add up their sales and costs, and figure out where they stand Then they...
... chastened by events in the early 1930s The partnerships emerging from the turmoil of the Depression and World War II again led WallStreet in the 1950s when the bull market began during the Eisenhower ... so good that they began to erect a large granite headquarters at the corner of Wall and Hanover Streets, at the very southern tip of Manhattan But then the roof fell in, literally The new building ... brokers in the country, half of them failed in the wake of the panic, leading to the worst economic crisis the country had yet seen The Allens were not alone in their misery One of the Allens’...
... change their business and introduce them to securities selling Their idea was to use former connections to sell the bonds in Germany, known for its sympathies for the Northern rather than the Southern ... on the floor Unlike the Allens a generation before, the brothers 43 THE LAST PARTNERSHIPS realized that precipitously shifting from one business to the other was a mistake; they maintained their ... of the junior partners had escaped the debacle unscathed, apparently anticipating the fiasco by putting their own financial houses in order before the end came The bankruptcy court liquidated the...
... at the top of theWallStreet tree The great irony for many prestigious firms was that although their prowess in the market was never doubted, their capital was limited Some of the activities they ... for the line and that was the real source of their interest along with the subsidy They were challenged on the fact, and the issue wound its way through the courts After the Browns divested, the ... payments Crowds gathered outside the offices of many banks on Wall Street, including Brown Brothers, and there were threats of street violence as the panic spread But Brown Brothers remained intact...
... banking, so the new law forced them out of the commercial banking business while the commercial banks divested their securities affiliates TheWallStreet revolution was complete, and Brown Brothers ... rather than play both sides of the fence, it declined an offer to underwrite, leaving the job to other sympathetic banks.15 The way was then clear to help Salmon Chase raise money for the Northern ... objectives for the future As the previously loose regulatory and professional framework under which theWallStreet firms operated became more formalized, the influence of the larger WallStreet houses...
... results for the balance of the 1930s But better days were coming, and Kidder waited for them along with the rest of WallStreet Starting Anew The new Kidder Peabody survived the ordeal of the 1930s ... although the wolf in the story is a floor trader on the NYSE, not an investment banker “Is there a market price for love?” asked the promotional material for the film If there is, the titan of the ... Getting the refinancing package past the board was not easy, but in the end Dillon prevailed, the money was raised, and the company survived Then the lawsuits began Shareholders sued the company...
... THE LAST PARTNERSHIPS The rise of the House of Morgan was quite different from that of the other prominent banking houses in the nineteenth century The founder of the dynasty, Junius ... understated the importance of the operation The gold trading was done at the gold room, a trading room located around the corner from the NYSE Trading in the metal took precedence there above ... the railroad’s presidentThe two would battle again some years later in another project close to both their hearts, but the outcome, unfortunately for Villard, would be much the same During the...
... that the days of theWallStreet partnerships were limited As trading volume and the size of new issues grew, the amount of capital on the books would have to grow across the board if theWallStreet ... followed, reputations lingered The average man in thestreet remembered the stories about the great bankers of the past and the wealth they had accumulated The generation before the Second World War was ... for the house account or sold directly to the public Over the course of the nineteenth century, WallStreet was fairly isolated from trends affecting the great majority of the population Wall Street...
... position on WallStreetThe 1984 rankings of the top brokers found Merrill Lynch in the top spot, followed by Shearson Lehman Brothers, Salomon Brothers, Dean Witter, and then Hutton.23 The firm ... temporarily with the stock market collapse in 1987 At the forefront of the trend was the consolidation on WallStreet itself Many of the mergers would not stand the test of time, but they were significant ... activity, they changed the name of the firm to the slightly grandiose The Discount House of Salomon & Hutzler This put them firmly in the money market, and the NYSE seat became an adjunct of their...
... professional models as escorts Milken was clearly the “king,” if not of WallStreet then certainly of junk The annual event became the symbol of the Decade of Greed the outing where everyone who ever performed ... longevity as a result The Seligmans were the first to enjoy success and became the model and envy of the others Kuhn Loeb followed, eclipsing the Seligmans by the turn of the twentieth century ... in the roaring bull market of the 1920s Less clear at the time was the fact that Henry Goldman’s departure also would spell the end of the firm’s association with Lehman Brothers Shooting for the...