On Money and Markets : A Wall Street Memoir

by Kaufman, Henry

• ISBN13: 9780071380508
• ISBN10: 0071380507
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-28
• Publisher: MCG

Summary

A personal memoir and a historical retrospective elaborating on concerns of financial behavior.

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Paul A. Volcker
Acknowledgments	ix
From Nazi Germany to the New World	1	(20)
The Road to Wall Street	21	(24)
The Growth and Transformation of Markets	45	(22)
The Derivatives Revolution	67	(18)
The Corporatizing of Wall Street	85	(14)
Salomon's Growing Pains	99	(14)
The Americanization of Global Business and Finance	113	(24)
The Rise of Financial Forecasting	137	(20)
Forecasting and the Great Bull Market	157	(26)
The Fed's Rise to Dominance	183	(18)
Shortcomings of Fed Policy	201	(22)
The Urgent Need for Regulatory and Supervisory Reform	223	(24)
Learning from Financial Crises	247	(20)
Learning from the Financial Excesses of the 1980s and 1990s	267	(20)
The Role of Bias in Economics and Finance	287	(16)
Neglected Financial Lessons	303	(24)
Financial Institutions in the New Century	327	(16)
Looking to the Future	343	(20)
Bibliography	363	(4)
Speeches, Articles, and Published Interviews	367	(16)
Henry Kaufman
Index	383