LEADER 05409nam 2200661 450 001 9910790930603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-118-65467-6 010 $a1-118-65486-2 010 $a1-118-65466-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000001272915 035 $a(EBL)1662661 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001211499 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11715517 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001211499 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11203923 035 $a(PQKB)11295212 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1662661 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10856839 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL595042 035 $a(OCoLC)875820364 035 $a(CaSebORM)9781118572306 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1662661 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001272915 100 $a20140415h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurunu||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBiggs on finance, economics, and the stock market $eBarton's market chronicles from the Morgan Stanley years /$fBarton Biggs 205 $a1st edition 210 1$aHoboken, New Jersey :$cWiley,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (426 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-118-57230-0 311 $a1-306-63791-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aBiggs 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; Anarchy 327 $aLife 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 Policy 327 $aThe 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 Sun 327 $aGod 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" 327 $aBig 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 Low 327 $aSection 3D: Europe, Middle East, Africa 330 $aReleased 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 that 606 $aInvestment advisors$zUnited States$vCorrespondence 607 $aUnited States$xEconomic conditions 615 0$aInvestment advisors 676 $a332.6092 700 $aBiggs$b Barton$0889804 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790930603321 996 $aBiggs on finance, economics, and the stock market$93822073 997 $aUNINA