05409nam 2200661 450 991081921060332120200520144314.01-118-65467-61-118-65486-21-118-65466-8(CKB)2550000001272915(EBL)1662661(SSID)ssj0001211499(PQKBManifestationID)11715517(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001211499(PQKBWorkID)11203923(PQKB)11295212(Au-PeEL)EBL1662661(CaPaEBR)ebr10856839(CaONFJC)MIL595042(OCoLC)875820364(CaSebORM)9781118572306(MiAaPQ)EBC1662661(EXLCZ)99255000000127291520140415h20142014 uy 0engurunu|||||txtccrBiggs on finance, economics, and the stock market Barton's market chronicles from the Morgan Stanley years /Barton Biggs1st editionHoboken, New Jersey :Wiley,2014.©20141 online resource (426 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-118-57230-0 1-306-63791-0 Includes bibliographical references.Biggs on Finance, Economics, and the Stock Market: Barton's Market Chronicles from the Morgan Stanley Years; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section 1: What's Old Is New Again; Section 1A: Market History and the Long View; In Search of History and a Word Processor That Works; Kondratieff and the Long Cycle; The Phony War; Ancient History; History, Market Deaths, and the Cult of the Equity; Section 1B: Fire and Ice; The Fire and Ice Debate; Ice Creeps On; A World Lit Only by Fire?; Section 1C: Bubbles and Panics; Manias, Panics, Crashes; Tulipomania; AnarchyLife on the Good Ship Swine The New New Thing; When?; Section 1D: Wars and Rumors of War; The Last Supper; The Beam That Broke the Camel's Back; Bioterrorism and the Case for Higher P/E Ratios?; Section 1E: Geopolitics; Popcorn and the Decline of the West; What Could Be Worse?; Diary of Mikhail S. Gorbachev-Sunday, May 4, 1986; Close-Up; Diary of Mikhail Gorbachev, May 1987; The Diary of Deng Xiaoping: Wistful and Wishful Musings; Bottomless Pits and Nuts with Missiles; Diary of Saddam Hussein; Islamic Fundamentalism; Section 2: Economics and Investing; Section 2A: Economics and PolicyThe Evolution of the Supply Side The Tax Cut Misconception; Running the Movie of the Seventies Backward; The Piper Must Still Be Paid; A World That Has Lived beyond Its Means; The Valuation Dilemma for Equities; The Old President with the Right Intuitions; What Kind of People Are We?; Emerging Markets Are Only for the Brave; Section 2B: Investment Discipline & Tactics; Discipline and Reading; How to Lose the Winner's Game; You Gotta Believe; Section 2C: Market Psychology and Investing Philosophy; Contrarianism; Electronic War Rooms and Lying in the SunGod Is a Mathematician? The Fibonacci Numbers Beware of Linear Thinkers: Chaos on the Upside; How George Soros Makes Money: The Theory He Says Guides Him; The Horse Whisperers; Mr. Market Is a Manic-Depressive; Section 2D: Alternative Investments; Filthy Lucre; The Bull Market in Art: Mania or Magnificent Obsession?; Jewelry Is a Girl's Best Friend; Section 2E: Market Predictions; First Class on the Titanic; "It's a Bull Market, You Know . . ."; Beware the Conventional Wisdom . . .; Dear Diary: Up with Which I Have to Put; Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition; "Even Monkeys Fall from Trees"Big Fish Do Not Live in Small Ponds Section 3: The Global View; Section 3A: China and Hong Kong; Buy Hong Kong; Own Hong Kong Big; More on China; China: "The New Emperors" and the Risk/Reward Equation; How Fast Is China Really Growing?; China Tales; A China Traveler's Tales; China Cooling, Us Heating; Section 3B: India; India Tilts to the Right and the Stock Market Explodes; India for the 1990's; Great Expectations; India: You Have to Go There to Understand; Section 3C: Japan; More on Japan; Long Trips; Japan Inc. Wants a Higher Yen; Japan Bought High and Will Sell LowSection 3D: Europe, Middle East, AfricaReleased to the public for the first time, writings by the incomparable Barton Biggs Long considered one of the best brains on Wall Street, Barton Biggs acquired the stature of a legend within his lifetime. Among his many coups, he accurately called the rise and fall of the dot-com market, and was an energetic promoter of emerging markets, including China, well before American businesses began flocking there-and he made vast fortunes for his clients, in the process. But, as this fascinating book confirms, it wasn't Biggs's genius as a market analyst and hedge fund manager alone thatInvestment advisorsUnited StatesCorrespondenceUnited StatesEconomic conditionsInvestment advisors332.6092Biggs Barton889804MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819210603321Biggs on finance, economics, and the stock market4113413UNINA