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3) Flint
Author
Series
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Flint left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of violence. In the East he became one of the wealthiest financiers in America -- and one of the most feared and hated. Now, suffering from incurable cancer, he has come back to New Mexico to die alone. But when an all-out range war erupts, Flint chooses to help Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher. A cold-eyed speculator is setting up the land swindle of a lifetime,...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Clay Bell was a onetime drifter who'd grown weary of long trails and settled on the sweetest land he'd ever seen. For six years he fought Indians, rustlers, and the wilderness itself to make the Bar-B ranch the prize of the Deep Creek Range. But now all that Clay has worked for is threatened. Jud Devitt, a ruthless speculator from the East, wants Bell's rich timberland--and he doesn't care how he gets it. Backing Devitt are tame judges, crooked politicians,...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
" In 1901, the Northern Pacific was an unlikely prize: a twice-bankrupt construction of the federal government, it was a two-bit railroad (literally--five years back, its stock traded for twenty-five cents a share). But it was also a key to connecting eastern markets through Chicago to the rising West. Two titans of American railroads set their sights on it: James J. Hill, head of the Great Northern and largest individual shareholder of the Northern...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
xxxvi, 475 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
First published in 1873, The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America-an age of corruption when crooked land speculators, ruthless bankers, and dishonest politicians voraciously took advantage of the nation's peacetime optimism. With his characteristic wit and perception, Mark Twain and his collaborator, Charles Dudley Warner, attack the greed, lust, and naivete of their own time in a work which endures...
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
In A Short History of Financial Euphoria, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith reviews, with insight and wit, the common features of the great speculative episodes of the last three centuries--the seventeenth-century craze in Western Europe for investing in an unusual commodity: the tulip; Britain's South Sea Bubble and the eighteenth century's fascination with the joint-stock company, now called the corporation; and, more recently, the discovery...
12) Winning with stocks: the smart way to pick investments, manage your portfolio, and maximize profits
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
viii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 216 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A television journalist shares advice, practical tips, and financial strategies from some of America's most successful investors and business leaders, including Suze Orman, John C. Bogle, Warren Buffett, Bill Gross, Susan Ivey, and Steve Forbes.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Avid Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From a successful investor and a contributor to Barron's and Fortune comes a once-in-a-lifetime book that gives modern investors what they need most: a fresh, value-based guide to making money in a stock market now dominated by tech stocks."Amazon.
Technological change is reshaping the economy in a way not witnessed since Henry Ford introduced the assembly line. A little more than ten years ago, only two of the ten most valuable publicly traded...
17) Boiler room
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Seth runs a small-time casino operation out of his apartment. With his streetwise business smarts, he's recruited to join the city's newest and hottest stock brokerage firm, and quickly takes to his new job's instant riches and fast-life pleasures. When he wins the eye and heart of Greg's ex-girlfriend, everything seems too good to be true.