Roger Lowenstein
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that created the Federal Reserve, tracing the financial panic and widespread distrust of bankers that prompted the landmark 1913 Federal Reserve Act and launched America's first steps onto the world financial stage.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Ways and Means, journalist Roger Lowenstein reveals the unlikely story of how Abraham Lincoln used the urgency of financing the Civil War to transform a union of states into one united nation. Through a financial lens, he explores how this second American revolution, led by Lincoln, his cabinet, and his congress, changed the direction of the country"--
Upon his election to the presidency, Abraham Lincoln inherited a country in crisis: the United...
Author
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Graham, the “father of fundamental investing,” showed the way from speculation (based on tips, intuition , and guesswork) to investing as a disciplined, quantitative analysis of a company's fundamentals (such as earnings, dividends, assets, debt, financial structure, and the history of all these items over time). Graham's style , known as value investing, focuses on a company's intrinsic value (i.e.inherent value), buying stocks only...