Securities Operations: A Guide to Trade and Position Management Review

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(More customer reviews)I am just about finished the book and have found it to be an excellent guide, precise and well written. As an `IT Person' who has steadily moved closer to the business over the years and hence the need to understand how things `work' it has allowed me to consolidate and confirm my understanding of the key areas. Although I have a number of years experience, particularly from the custodian side, this has allowed me to fully appreciate the full process. The examples that run throughout the book that explains the concepts presented are superb and ensure a firm understanding of the subject area

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The only comprehensive account of operational risk in securities settlementsSecurities Operations focuses on the settlement aspects of a securities transaction. As financial analysts make a greater effort toward quantifying and managing operational risk, they are paying more attention to securities transactions in general and to the settlement phase in particular. While describing the practical issues, this book enumerates the different "back office" related risks potentially encountered throughout the settlement. Simmons also covers more advanced topics such as derivatives, trade compensation, internal allocation of funding costs, and operational performance measurement.Michael Simmons (London, UK) is currently Head of Business Consultancy at Wilco International, a major software systems provider to the financial markets.Over the years, financial professionals around the world have looked to the Wiley Finance series and its wide array of bestselling books for the knowledge, insights, and techniques that are essential to success in financial markets. As the pace of change in financial markets and instruments quickens, Wiley Finance continues to respond. With critically acclaimed books by leading thinkers on value investing, risk management, asset allocation, and many other critical subjects, the Wiley Finance series provides the financial community with information they want. Written to provide professionals and individuals with the most current thinking from the best minds in the industry, it is no wonder that the Wiley Finance series is the first and last stop for financial professionals looking to increase their financial expertise.

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Wolverine's Daughter Review

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(More customer reviews)Wolverine was a legendary warrior. He was also Kelyn of Ketura's father. He had left her mother before she was born. Kelyn cared nothing for the Wolverine or his legends. She wanted nothing to do with him. She grew up in the mountains of Ketura learning to survive, like her father before her as her mother wished. She had to practice much harder than the others of the village due to her occasional bouts of clumsiness. Where others did things gracefully, she was awkward. Where others learned quickly, she had to practice often and thoroughly.
When her mother died, the village witch told her that she must find her father if she wanted to find herself. So she began her journey. Kelyn did not wait for trouble to find her. She followed trouble to find the Wolverine. Once found, a battle of witches, barbarians, and sorcery began! Kelyn also found out WHY she was often clumsy. However, she could not understand why that clumsiness vanished at times of danger and battle. One thing was for certain, the Wolverine could not deny she was his daughter and he had definitely met his match!
**** Excellent! Like watching Xena and Hercules side-by-side! I plan to look up other books by this amazing author! Highly recommended reading here! ****

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Rule the Freakin' Markets: How to Profit in Any Market, Bull or Bear Review

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(More customer reviews)The author's claim he turned $33,000 into 7 million in 15 months is extraordinarily unlikely, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. However, you will not find any trade confirmations or affidavits from accountants in his book. In fact, he does not even detail one single trade he has ever made. One might wonder why someone who is supposedly so proficient at trading needs to write books, run a trading website, hawk videos, infomercials, etc. His book also contains numerous errors that make me wonder if he has ever traded at all. For example, he doesn't appear to understand the details of the new SEC day-trading rules, particularly the increased margin available under these rules to intraday traders. He states that Datek (now merged with Ameritrade) is not a direct-access broker (false). In fact, Datek at one time owned a chunk of the Island ECN, the ECN used almost exclusively by all sophisticated traders.
If the author did manage to achieve the gains he claims, it would have been during the very end of the biggest bull market in history, a speculative bubble that will probably never repeat itself in our lifetimes. Many of the "trends" which are the basis of his trading strategy no longer exist. For example, IPO and stock-split plays. In this current market, how many IPOs or stock splits have you heard of recently? Although the book discusses many solid trading rules such as always using stops on every trade, these rules can be found in a thousand other books on trading.
The most important part of trading, the mental and psychological barriers that need to be overcome in order to be successful are really not discussed at all, or are simply assumed. Ultimately, the book is irresponsible because it does not ever disclose how difficult it is to succeed at trading. For example, Massachusetts regulators seized the records of one day-trading firm in the late '90s. They found that the firm had 68 traders, and 67 of them were losing money. This works out to be close to the typical failure rate of 97% for individuals who attempt to trade for a living. Do I think the author is one of the 3% who made it? Nope. It's much easier to write books on how to trade than to actually do it.

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The New-Wave Mai Tai Review

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(More customer reviews)This cocktail book contains the absolute best recipes! The original Mai Tai is a dull lifeless drink created for tourist-types and girly drink lovers. But, the recipes in this book are awesomely amazing and THE BEST. Tiki people around the world are raving about the newest cocktails which she has created. I have now made about half of them and find that the drinks are amazing if you double or triple the amount of rum that she says to add. In one drink, I can't remember which one, she says to use 1 1/2 ounce of rum. I found that if you use about 8 oz. of rum that the drink is way better. In fact, I use this amount in all of her recipes.

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Sit back and savor the taste of the tropics with The New Wave Mai Tai. Learn about the rich history of rum, the principal ingredient in the mai tai. Delve into the origins of the mai tai and hear both sides of the eternal debate: Who created the quintessential Island libation - Don the Beachcomber or Trader Vic? In addition, this colorful book contains over 50 recipes for new twists on the old classic: try a Mai Tai-Jito, a Sassy Wahine or a Smooth Shredder. These creative cocktails go beyond what either Don the Beachcomber or Trader Vic could ever have imagined.

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New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (American Moment) Review

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(More customer reviews)In this book Colin Calloway sums up another cycle in the historiography of the American Indian. The book is arranged topically, and is really more a series of essays than a single narrative. Calloway is even-handed in his approach, avoiding the demonization of both settlers and Indians that have been features of other works on the same topic. Calloway tries to cut through the mythology that has encrusted much of American Indian history and get at the way things really were--cultural give and take, misunderstandings, and accomodations. Overall, an excellent book and a necessary antidote to wrong-headed notions about cultural interactions in early America.

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Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems Review

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(More customer reviews)If you love to read works on economics, math and physics and love to assemble models of the world, I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Indeed, if economic models were this much fun when I was an undergraduate, I might have become an economist.
Funny thing though, this was not written by an economist, but by a geophysicist.
It seems physicists and psychologists in particular are writing more interesting economics books these days than economists themselves.
The core focus of the book is a derivation of a market model that includes value investors, momentum investors and the herding effect of individual economic agents acting in a world of partial information. The final model is stunning.
Sornette points out the main problem with predicting bubbles: even if all the signs say "yes," there is still a pretty good chance that the bubble will be self-correcting. Turns out chasing market bubbles is a little like chasing soap bubbles - they may simply disappear at any moment. Thus, the book and the model are of limited use in any type of market timing. Indeed, the model suggests that the market should now be in the tank, and yet it continues to hover on the higher side of its expected range.
As much as I loved the book, there was a slight aftertaste that this was all nothing but a very mathematical and high-minded type of technical analysis. That at base, when all was said and done, this was not all that different from the various "tools" in the chartist's handbook, e.g. MACD, RSI and OBV, etc., etc., etc. The difference may be solely that Sornette knows his statistics and would easily and readily dismiss any model which did not perform significantly different from chance.
Finally, this book will have you trotting out your old high school calculus book. It brought back memories of just how much fun mathematics can be.
All in all - I give it 5 stars.

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"I Love You More Than My Dog": Five Decisions That Drive Extreme Customer Loyalty in Good Times and Bad Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a one-of-a-kind book who's title "I Love You More Than My Dog" tells you how to create emotional bonds for life with your customers...the type of faithful relationships dog lovers have with their dogs. The 5 decisions Jeanne discusses that drive extreme, 'for life' customer loyalty in good times and bad are right on. The book provides every day tools that you can use to understand how you make decisions -- not only for your business, but for you personally - to become a beloved company with devoted customers.
Jeanne's book builds on her equally strong first book, "Chief Customer Officer", which provides specific methodologies for building customer centric organizations. Her new book builds on her already strong credibility as a customer zealot and provides real life examples of companies that demonstrate the 5 decisions every day, and have the business results to prove it.
"I Love You More Than My Dog" is a must read for anyone who wants to understand and act on the difference between having customers 'like' you and really 'love you' for life. More than your dog.
I'd give it 10 stars if I could.
Karyn F. Seattle, Washington


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Trading to Win: The Psychology of Mastering the Markets (Wiley Trading) Review

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(More customer reviews)I have two copies of Trading to Win; one I lend to my traders, and one I keep for myself.
I have been involved in running a professional trading firm for the past three years. At first, there were only a handful of books to help an individual transition from active investing, to trading. These days, it seems, there is a new title introduced every few days. I look at the majority of these books, and few are worth reading from cover to cover.
Trading to Win is an exception. This book deals with the psychology of trading in a more thorough way than any book I've read. As insightful as Elder's Trading for a Living, with more detail on the psychology of winning, and a more updated perspective. Ari Kiev takes his readers through a step-by-step process, showing them how to build their personal psychologies and become "master traders". He compares trader training to the training of Olympic athletes in a way that is accurate and interesting to read. There are numerous questions and quizes in the book, designed to keep readers on track while creating their personal psychological strategies.
Bottom line: In order of importance, your average trader usually puts psychology far behind trading technique. If he worked more on understanding and developing the motivations that governed his trades, maybe he wouldn't be so average.
Buy the book and plan on reading it numerous times.

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A breakthrough programfor achieving new heights of trading successThe product of a five-year collaboration between Dr. Ari Kiev, a leading psychiatrist renowned for his success with Olympic athletes, and top equities trader Steve Cohen, Trading to Win gives you the essential tools to overcome outmoded, self-limiting beliefs and mindsets that may be keeping you from a higher level of success. Illustrated with real market scenarios and applications, this powerful program will help psych you into a less stressful, more self-possessed mastery of the trading game and help you reach goals you may never have thought possible."The strategies in this book will unleash the hidden trader in you, and can substantially increase your trading profits." --Jay G. Goldman, Hedge Fund Manager."Ari Kiev has written a wonderful guide for money managers, traders, brokers, and investors alike. Sharing his thoughts with us regarding our behavior patterns enables us to take a step back and look at ourselves more objectively." --Seymour W. Zises, President and CEO, Family Management Corp.The trading arena has produced its share of select "super-traders," market practitioners who set themselves apart from the rest of the field with one distinct advantage: mental and emotional toughness. Like outstanding athletes who stay focused, remain calm, and stick to their game plan, these master traders in this highly risky, highly competitive arena possess an edge that keeps them from being distracted by fear, self-doubt, greed, and other emotional components that can cause major losses and prevent gains from soaring to new highs.Trading to Win presents a step-by-step, goal-oriented program for building the mental and emotional stamina not only to win, but to win on an unprecedented level. Created by a leading psychiatrist for a top trading firm, this proven approach spotlights a set of philosophical and behavioral principles designed to assist you in implementing proactive trading strategies, as well as developing the mindset needed to trade effectively in the realm of uncertainty. Delving into your underlying thought processes when you trade, Trading to Win enables you to understand what is motivating you, whether it is consistent with your game plan, and whether you are in any way sabotaging yourself.Fully supplemented with real market trading scenarios, Trading to Win shows you how to apply key concepts where it counts--in actual trading room situations. For both professional traders and sophisticated investors, this remarkable program offers a rare opportunity for both personal and financial gain.

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Candlestick Charting Explained: Timeless Techniques for Trading Stocks and Futures Review

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(More customer reviews)I had already read this book and Steve Nison's Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques.
If you want to buy a book about candlestick both books have the same content about all the candlestick patterns and the descrition about them.
Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques:
- has chapters about the relationship of candlestick with Volume, Support and Resistence, trendlines, Indicators (MACD,IFR,etc). This is VERY GOOD. Realy good.
- It has many examples discussed too. More than this book.
This book has:
- a chapter about Trading with Candlesticks that has content about trendlines, supports, etc.
- a lot of statistics of the patterns.
One great difference is that this book is easier to use. It has a standardized format for all the patterns with Commentary, Rules, Psychology Behind the Pattern, Flexibility, Pattern Breakdown, Related Patterns, Examples. This is VERY GOOD. It's only search the pattern and read what you want to know. It has a table with a resume about the pattern too.
Steve Nison's book isn't objective and it is not hands-on. You are reading an example, but... where is the picture?? You have to turn the pages searching the picture and them back to the curretly page to keep going. To do that for more than 300 pages is very, VERY BAD. Really. Trust me. You need to have a lot of patience.
Well, if you read one of these books, don't worry: you will know all about candlesticks. But this book is easier to use and to consult.
And it is cheaper than Steve Nison's book.
Abrax!!!

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Finding #1 Stocks: Screening, Backtesting and Time-Proven Strategies (The Zacks Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)If you want stock screening ideas, you'll love this book. Kevin includes a large number of screens that are designed to find momentum stocks, growth stocks, value stocks, and dividend stocks. Whatever your preference is, chances are there is a screening idea for you in this book.
Kevin Matras is a screening expert, who backtests every strategy he writes to make sure it works. Rather than just look for random anomalies, he stops to consider whether the combination of criteria makes sense. I know this to be true because I worked with Kevin for several years.
Most of the strategies are based on the Zacks Rank. While the screens are optimized for Zacks' Research Wizard stock screening program, they can be adopted to other stock screening programs, such as AAII's Stock Investor Pro. The key is to look for rising earnings estimates and positive earnings surprises. You won't get the exactly the same results, but you'll still be able to capture the spirit for many of the screens in this book.
-Charles Rotblut
Author, Better Good than Lucky: How Savvy Investors Create Fortune with the Risk-Reward Ratio

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Practical trading tools and techniques developed by Zacks Investment Research
While there are many stock trading systems on the market today, that use a variety of different approaches and indicators, the approach used by Zacks Investment Research is built around the number one driver of stock prices: company earnings.
Based on Zacks Research Wizard product, this book provides you with market beating stock selection techniques and advice on how to build your own stock selection system. This practical guide discloses several trading methods that have outperformed the market for a long period of time and shows you how to screen stocks and develop selection criteria to build various types of stock portfolios, such as aggressive growth; growth and income; momentum; and value.
Highlights several of Zacks trading methods that have outperformed the market for extended periods of time
Discusses how to create customized systems incorporating elements of the Zacks approach with other types of fundamental and technical data
Includes a 30-day free subscription to Zacks Research Wizard software

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A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers Review

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(More customer reviews)Two kinds of people are likely to be attracted to this book: the common man in the street who wants to know how a company like Lehman blew up so spectacularly and the financial markets insider who wants to know the inside scoop.
If you are the former, this book is likely to please. It has all the elements of a pot boiler - the breathless accounts of secret meetings, mutiny in the boardroom and the heroic efforts of a few key guys trying valiantly to save the sinking ship. It has the relentless enemy and the arch villain. The only thing missing is the scantily clad woman draped over the hero's arm.
The other side of the barbell is the financial services insider who knows all the acronyms inside and out - CDO, CLO, RMBS, CMBS, SIV who is nevertheless looking for a straight account of what went wrong - like the classic 'smartest guys in the room' on the Enron disaster.
If you are on that side of the barbell, steer clear of this book. It offers no insight into anything, except perhaps the massive ego of a low level trader. By all accounts, Larry McDonald should never have been allowed to place the kind of bets he claims to have made. He was obviously a junior trader on a bond desk that used shareholder money to short everything in sight taking massive short CDS positions on all sorts of names, good and bad. The irony seems entirely lost to him, but his desk was part of the CDS problem - buying protection with no underlying holdings.
Like any gambler, he worships the analyst (Jane Castle) who gave him the hot tip - (Buy Delta, young man!) but is too dumb to acknowledge that Delta could easily have woundup another Eastern, or more to the point, another TWA. The 'hostile' bid from US Airways that made his profit, nearly killed US Airways... but I digress.
Larry does let his political persuasions come through. Clinton is an arch villain for letting Roberta Achtenberg loose on banks 'forcing' them to lend to the huddled masses. 'Easy mortgages were the invention of Bill Clinton's Democrats' he proclaims. Never mind that the CRA ran for over 12 years with nary a problem until the boneheads on Wall Street decided to get in on the action by securitizing it.
Perhaps the most telling passage comes in the tail end of the book and summarizes it quite well:
"All my life, I've been a laissez-faire Ronald Reagan / Margaret Thatcher capitalist, swearing by the market, taking the risks and the devil take the hindmost. But this one time, I was looking for a Givernment rescue and I wasn't going to get it"
This one time. When my stock value is at stake, the principles I held all my life just vaporized. Hank Paulson should have cared more about my stock options in Lehman. That son-of-a-bitch was making an example out of Lehman with *MY* money.
This book is a lousy excuse for a tell-all or even a straight accounting of the events leading up to Lehman;s demise. 'When Genius Failed' this ain't.

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An Introduction to International Capital Markets: Products, Strategies, Participants (The Wiley Finance Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)It is actually a good introduction to capital markets. An interesting book for those students who are entering to this complex industry and knowledge field. Dr. Chisholm develops carefully every subjet in an excelent work.

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Fully revised and updated from the hugely popular first edition, this book is an accessible and convenient one-volume introduction to international capital markets, ideal for those entering or planning to enter investment banking or asset management. As well as serving as an invaluable reference tool for professionals already working in the industry looking to extend their knowledge base it will also benefit all those working in trading, sales and support roles.

Describing how the key products and markets work, who the principle participants are and their overall goals and objectives, Andrew Chisholm provides a thorough overview of the global capital markets. The book covers a wide range of equity, debt, foreign exchange and credit instruments as well as the principal derivative products. In a step-by-step fashion, making extensive use of real world cases and examples, it explains money markets, foreign exchange, bond markets, cash equity markets, equity valuation techniques, swaps, forwards, futures, credit derivatives, options, option risk management and convertible bonds. An extensive glossary also explains concisely many of the ‘jargon' expressions used in the financial markets.

Boasting an international focus, examples are drawn from major international markets around the world. It makes extensive use of numerical examples and case studies to help explain a wide range of cash and derivative products used in the capital markets business. It covers both debt and equity products and includes new material on credit products such as collateralized debt obligations and credit derivative structures; equity fundamental analysis, portfolio theory and convertible bonds. Market data has been fully updated from the first edition and recent events such as the ‘credit crisis' are discussed.

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Developer's Guide to Microsoft Prism 4: Building Modular MVVM Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight (Patterns & Practices) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a nice concise overview of all the topics related to development with Microsoft PRISM 4.0.
It is not exactly the same content that is available for download. It is a trimmed down version of it. For example it does not cover upgrading from a previous version or go into the implementation details of the examples. It gives an overview and points you to the topic in the online MSDN documentation. Personally I would have preferred the content to have been included.
The book starts out with an overview of PRISM terminology and the reasons for using PRISM (as well as the reasons not to). It then offers a chapter on each of the following topics- Initializing Prism Applications, Managing Dependencies Between Components, Modular Application Development, Implementing the MVVM Pattern, Advanced MVVM Scenarios, Composing the User Interface, Navigation, Communication Between Loosely Coupled Components, Sharing Code Between Silverlight and WPF, and Deploying Prism Applications.
I think the book is organized well and is written in an easy to read format. It contains a lot of diagrams that help you understand the topic. It works well as a reference because it has a very nice index. The book also contains a ton of links to more information about the topics it covers.
PRISM is a big topic. This book is a great place to start learning it. Actually the best place to start. Learning the architectural and design techniques the team used when putting PRISM together will help any architect or developer increase their skillset. This book contains a nice overview of MVVM, MEF, UNITY (Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection), and many popular design patterns (Command, Adapter, Application Controller, Event Aggregator, Facade, Observer, Service Locator, etc.) which makes it worth reading, even if you are not planning on using PRISM anytime soon. Learning how PRISM works is worth the time.
All in all, if you are a .NET Architect or Developer I highly recommend reading this book.

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This guide provides everything you need to get started with Prism and to use it to create flexible, maintainable Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Microsoft Silverlight® 4.0 applications. It can be challenging to design and build WPF or Silverlight client applications that are flexible, maintainable, and that can evolve over time based on changing requirements. These kinds of applications require a loosely coupled modular architecture that allows individual parts of the application to be independently developed and tested, allowing the application to be modified or extended later on. Additionally, the architecture should promote testability, code re-use, and flexibility. Prism helps you to design and build flexible and maintainable WPF and Silverlight applications by using design patterns that support important architectural design principles, such as separation of concerns and loose coupling. This guide helps you understand these design patterns and describes how you can use Prism to implement them in your WPF or Silverlight applications. This guide will show you how to use Prism to implement the Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) pattern in your application, and how to use it along with commands and interaction requests to encapsulate application logic and make it testable. It will show you how to split an application into separate functional modules that can communicate through loosely coupled events, and how to integrate those modules into the overall application. It will show you how to dynamically construct a flexible user interface by using regions, and how to implement rich navigation across a modular application. Prism allows you to use these design patterns together or in isolation, depending on your particular application requirements.

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Capitalism and Slavery Review

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(More customer reviews)The transformation from subsistance society where everyone more or less consumed what they produced, to international capitalism required as a precondition the accumulation of capital. That is, some people had to be able to produce more than they consumed before they could have anything to invest.
Williams contribution to the literature of this transformation is to focus on the role of the slave trade. On the one hand, it provided a source of raw materials (human beings) which could be sold at a profit by traders, and then used to produce even more wealth by the buyers (slaveholders). This double accumulation of wealth went a long way toward allowing a few very wealthy people to accumulate capital, which coul;d then be invested in things like machinery.
At the same time, the slave trade provided an economic foundation for a large scale international trading network (the famous molasses, slave, rum triangle, later includeing cotton). Without this international network of shippers and merchants, the English (and later New England) cotton mills would not have had anywhere to sell their manufactured product (cotton cloth), nor a cheap source of cotton to use as raw materials.
Williams' ground breaking contirbution was to link all of this together, and argue that without the immoral slave trade, the industrial revolution, and thus capitalism as we know it, would not have happened. The inescapable conclusion is that since much of modern wealth was founded on slavery, some form of reparations is warranted.

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Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England.Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide.
Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams's study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development. He also showed that mature industrial capitalism in turn helped destroy the slave system. Establishing the exploitation of commercial capitalism and its link to racial attitudes, Williams employed a historicist vision that set the tone for future studies. In a new introduction, Colin Palmer assesses the lasting impact of Williams's groundbreaking work and analyzes the heated scholarly debates it generated when it first appeared.

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The Tide of Empire: America's March to the Pacific Review

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(More customer reviews)This story of the Oregon Country has been told so many times, what could be added to enhance it? Try enthusiasm and style. This work is so well written as to be jaw dropping. Whether you are an accomplished historian or someone with a casual interest, this history of the Pacific Northwest will please.
While there is nothing new here Golay covers the waterfront. You meet the usual cast of characters, the Chinook Indians, John Jacob Astor, the Mountain Men, John McLoughlin, Senator Thomas Hart Benson, the Whitmans, Charles Wilkes, Jedediah Smith, Charles Fremont, etc., etc. Michael Golay omits no one. He covers the builders and the destroyers from the traders, trappers, explorers, and missionaries who withstood seemingly insurmountable odds to seize the Pacific Northwest for the United States to the economic interests such as the American Fur Company and the Northwest Company that provided employment and competing political agendas.
A compellingly told, fast paced account of exploration and adventure, Golay covers a half century of diplomatic rivalry, a flood of transcontinental Euro American settlement and the breathtaking impudence of their claims.


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Cosmic Ordering Review

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(More customer reviews)This is an excellent advanced step to manifesting through cosmic ordering. A priceless gem and a basic must-read manual for those seeking more in life. This treasure is simple and yet incomparably rich. This is a marvellously rich, delightful book.

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With this most advanced book on Cosmic Ordering ever written, you can successfully change your life and create your new future of wealth, relationships, health, career and life experiences now. This is the natural steppingstone up from his books 'Cosmic Ordering Guide' and 'The Cosmic Ordering Service'. Stephen Richards, the originator of the Cosmic Ordering Connection Technique, has risen in true rags to riches style from what he callsa penniless loserA" to become a multi-millionaire bestselling author of self-help books and CDs, all translated into numerous languages across the globe. He is also a successful property developer, publisher, film director and more - all as a direct result of using Cosmic Ordering.

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How Technical Analysis Works (New York Institute of Finance) Review

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(More customer reviews)Being in the business and a professional technical analyst, I have read many books on the subject, but "How Technical Analysis Works" is truly unique. If you are looking for black and white explanations of technical definitions, indicators, patterns, etc, this is probably not the book for you. However, if you want to learn how to use all of the tools at a technical analysts disposal in the real world, this is your book. There are enough books out there describing how to calculate a stochastic or RSI indicator, Mr. Kamich instead takes his many years of experience and explains how you should use these indicators in real-time. A distinctive feature of this book is his emphasis on thinking outside the box - almost challenging the reader to open his/her mind. This is highlighted by the examples (especially the chart patterns) he includes with his text. The chart examples he has chosen are not the picture perfect examples that rarely happen in real-time, but the type of patterns that challenge you to visualize scenarios that you may not have noticed at first glance. Although Bruce goes into great details in his explanations, this is an easy read that you will really enjoy. For those of you looking for an advantage over your fellow market participants (who isn't, especially in this market environment!), pick up "How Technical Analysis Works" - it is well worth the investment.

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