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This work evaluates existing bank merger policy and offers workable proposals for new legislative actions that would enhance the benefits of bank mergers without exacerbating the weaknesses. The authors review the historical role of governments in protecting banks from competition.

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Throughout the thirteenth century Western European monarchs were hampered by the failure of their traditional revenues to meet their new expenses. Edward I of England solved the primary problem of acquiring adequate funds with the imposition of a duty on wool and leather and by more frequent direct taxes. But collection was slow and irregular; ther

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The authors of this descriptive yet practical, applications-oriented book examine the sources and management of traditional and nontraditional banking risks, then the conventional on-balance sheet and the modern off-balance sheet risk management methods.

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Experts report on the latest research on extending access to financial services to the 2.5 billion adults around the world who lack it.

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This book reexamines the economic crash of 1929 and compares the event to the modern stock market crash of 2008-2009.

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An expert, comprehensive book of money-saving guidelines for prospective homebuyers and apartment renters.

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This book provides a short, critical introduction to controversies in tax policy. It emphasizes the many diverse underlying factors that drive tax policy debates and sheds light on traditional and newly emerging issues of tax policy.

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This book provides a short, critical introduction to controversies in tax policy. It emphasizes the many diverse underlying factors that drive tax policy debates and sheds light on traditional and newly emerging issues of tax policy.

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They explore individual company strategies and challenges for investor relations in unique and meaningful situationsall from their own vantages and experiences at six topflight corporations with world-class investor relations organizations: AT&T, Schering-Plough, BASF, Reuters, Sony, and Toyota.

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Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation. In this eye-opening book, he sets the record straight about what really caused the crisis. It didn't happen because banks are too big to fail--our addicti

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What is it like to make millions before you turn 20 What drives City traders to excess in their quest for extreme wealth And what happens when they lose it all overnight This title provides an account of life in Square Mile, laying bare the tricks, lifestyles and minds of the men who gamble with millions and influence our lives.

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Within a few years of their liberation from Spanish rule in the 1820s, several of the new Spanish American republics floated loans in London's financial market. They were represented by the Committee of Mexican Bondholders, a London based organization established in 1830 to negotiate a settlement of the debt with the Mexican government.

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The Budget of the United States Government is a collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President's budget proposals for 2025, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the year.

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In 2004, Spain's Banco Santander purchased Britain's Abbey National Bank in a deal valued at fifteen billion dollars - an acquisition that made Santander one of the ten largest financial institutions in the world. This work reveals how strategic decisions made by the family drove Santander's unprecedented rise to global prominence.

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The author is concerned here with the tax treatment of individuals' income from the sole proprietorships and partnerships in manufacturing, finance, trade, agriculture, and professional practice. Attention is paid to the changing relation between the income from sole proprietorship and partnership and the total income of owners. Appendixes contain

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Focusing on the subject of valuation of privately held businesses, this book argues that there is no small stock premium, that current valuation practice produces business valuations that are too subjective, and tax precedents and laws do not govern business valuations for other purposes.

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Terranova, a series regular on CNBC's Fast Money and the Chief Market Strategist for Virtus Investment Partners, dispenses counter-intuitive advice that will help the average investor to think and to trade like the pros.

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This book is designed to help people of all ages, whether it is a young person first starting out in the stock market or an older person structuring his/her retirement strategies.

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Pulls together key documents - statutes, court decisions, FEC advisory opinions, draft legislation - and scholarly articles that are essential references for any informed discussion of campaign finance reform. Each chapter includes a set of reprinted materials preceded by an explanation of the relevant issues by the editors.