Martin Mayer

Madison Avenue U.S.A.

A timely, inside look at America's Federal Reserve System reveals how the Fed has reinvented itself in response to changes in the new economy, explaining how it works, how it has changed, its impact on modern business and financial institutions, and more. Reprint.

The Inside Story of how the World's Most Powerful Financial Institution Drives the Markets

The Fed

The Next Generation The New Worlds Money Credit Banking Electronic Age

The Bankers

This book was produced to honor the 25th anniversary of Pavarotti's operatic debut. It features photos of Pavarotti in private times and in performance and with celebrites and other notables.

Grandissimo Pavarotti

An account of the savings-and-loan scandal of the 1980s describing its causes and results.

The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry

The Greatest-ever Bank Robbery

Elizabeth Luessenhop

In this fascinating insider’s account, an American woman who became an investor alleges that irresponsibility, incompetence, greed, and fraud at Lloyd’s, the world’s most glamorous insurance enterprise, have caused the company to lose $12 billion in the last ten years. Lloyd’s of London is not simply an insurance company; it is a society comprising thirty thousand Names (roughly 10 percent of whom are Americans)—private individuals like Elizabeth Luessenhop who accepted the risk of unlimited liability and pledged all their wealth to backing the insurance policies written by Lloyd’s. The beauty was that the Names didn’t have to put up any money to receive their profit share. As long as the premium calculations were sound, everybody prospered. But the 1980s were bad years for Lloyd’s—and for the Names who backed its business. It was also a time when the Society of Names grew by 50 percent to cover the disastrous losses the company was beginning to incur. Risky Business, written with veteran financial writer Martin Mayer, is a detailed account of how the mismanagement of Lloyd’s has affected thousands of American investors who, like Luessenhop, sought low-risk, long-term security. Luessenhop and Mayer take us inside a unique business institution and show us that the ramifications of a possible Lloyd’s failure will be severe—and felt worldwide.

An Insider's Account of the Disaster at Lloyd's of London

Risky Business

An expose of the corruption and incompetence that undermined Lloyd's of London, the world's most famous insurance agency, reveals how mismanagement cost the company $12 billion dollars in ten years and led to worldwide ramifications. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

Argues that large brokerage firms are earning more for themselves and less for their clients by secretly investing using insider information

How The Great Brokerage Firms W/help From Sec Stole Stock Mkt From Investors

Stealing The Market

Mercer Mayer

Illustrated with hundreds of photographs and based on research in the Met's massive archives, this history chronicles and celebrates the Met's first one hundred years and the legendary stars and conductors who have performed there

One Hundred Years of Grand Opera

The Met

Traces the events, policies, and players in the S&L scandal, and criticizes current plans for reform of the banking system

John M. Conly

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Sol M. Linowitz

"A much needed antidote, with its perceptive comments on the decline of the legal profession."--Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States, 1969-1986 This is the first searching examination of the troubled legal profession to be written by one of the nation's leading lawyers, and in it Sol Linowitz offers guidelines to a renewed professionalism among attorneys. The Betrayed Profession criticizes not the mouthpieces and the ambulance chasers that are the usual targets of public criticism, but the leaders of the bar--the New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., firms that have created a "legal services industry" and turned a public calling into an increasingly narrowed business. Linowitz shows that many lawyers have lost their connection to the tradition that theirs is a public profession--that the lawyer's responsibility is not simply to the client, or to the highest fee obtainable, but to the court. Today, the bar association has become a trade union for lawyers, and the public is the loser. This book is an urgent call to action that neither the legal profession nor the public it is meant to serve can afford to ignore.

Martin Mayer

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