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En 1887, de l’autre côté de l’Atlantique, James Carter Adams a cartographié les détenteurs de la dette publique étatsunienne. Il décrit l’existence au XVIIIe siècle d’une classe sociale de détenteurs d’obligations du Trésor. La bondholding class exigeait le maintien du service de la dette en tant qu’objectif national garantissant les profits des en
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Neumanns needed to fund their increasingly lavish lifestyle.
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
In sum, the swap did not produce the miraculous effects that Mulford had predicted, and it arguably made matters worse. This bitter pill was all the more unpalatable in light of the disclosure in mid-June that the seven Wall Street firms managing the swap were getting $137 million in fees thanks to the large number of bondholder participants. The f
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Il peut paraître étonnant qu’un homme qui avait directement participé au processus d’expropriation des biens des Juifs allemands se mue en ardent défenseur de la propriété ; mais ce n’est ni par amnésie ni par repentance qu’Abs endosse ce rôle. Dans son discours de San Francisco, il ne manque pas de soulever la question épineuse de Cortney et Röpke
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John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Unlike more modern forms of economic organization, in which individuals tend to deal with many buyers and sellers in an open market, the households of the closed village joined together to operate like an informal corporation, or a large family, not in an open marketplace but in a closed system where all the economic transactions of the village ten
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