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Carnival on Wall Street: Global Financial Marketsin the 1990's
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Traces key themes throughout the 1990s on global financial markets. Presents a view of the liberalization of the global capital markets and the interrelated boom on Wall Street, which developed into a global carnival, pulling players around the world into the game.
* Spans a time period from George Soros' attack on the pound sterling in 1991-92 to the events of September 11, tracing key themes throughout the decade.
* Focuses on foreign exchange markets, globalization versus anti-globalization, Asian earthquakes, and more.
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Jane Elizabeth Hughes is the author of Carnival on Wall Street: Global Financial Markets in the 1990s, published by Wiley.

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Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Greed, Greatness, and Disaster.

PART I: THE GLOBALIZATION OF CAPITAL MARKETS.

Chapter 2. Wall Street: From Furs to Global Capital Markets.

Chapter 3. Emerging Markets: Good Money After Bad?

Chapter 4. Foreign Exchange Markets: Speculators, Policeman and Suckers.

Chapter 5. Return of the Neo-Luddites: Globalization and Antiglobalization.

PART II: WALL STREET: BUBBLE TO BUST.

Chapter 6. The Tech Bubble.

Chapter 7. The Firm and Globalization.

Chapter 8. A Decade of Financial Wrongdoing.

Chapter 9. Japan and China: Potential Asian Earthquakes.

Chapter 10. 9/11 and Beyond: It's the Symbol, Stupid.

Selected Bibliography.

Index.

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