[PDF] Crash Bank Wallop eBook

Author : Allan Ahlberg
Publisher : Random House Trade
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 1986
Category :
ISBN : 9780394871981

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A bee buzzing at a frog sets off a chain reaction involving baaing sheep, crashing cars, a slamming door, and other noisy developments. Includes a brief picture dictionary section in which characters from the story reappear.

Author : Iain Martin
Publisher : Sceptre
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1473625084

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Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', Crash Bang Wallop will tell the gripping story of how the changes introduced in the 1980s in the City of London transformed our world. Attitudes to money and the way we measure value and status were completely reshaped by Big Bang, and it had an extraordinary impact on politics, on style, on technology, on the class system, on questions of public ownership, and on the geography of London. Perhaps more than anything, Big Bang revolutionised the international markets, as the capital became a testing ground for financial globalisation, with huge repercussions for the global economy. The definitive insider's account of this critically important moment in modern history, Crash Bang Wallop will also explore what's next for global finance as it gets ready to undergo yet another revolution. 'Iain Martin tells it brilliantly, mixing fury-inducing narrative with an acute eye for the broader conclusion.' Observer

Author : Robert Peston
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1838777814

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HE MUST FIND THE TRUTH . . . NO MATTER THE COST. THE BRAND NEW THRILLER FROM BRITAIN'S TOP POLITICAL JOURNALIST AND BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WHISTLEBLOWER. ______________________ London, 2007. It's summer in the City: the economy is booming, profits are up and the stock market sits near record highs. But journalist Gil Peck is a lone voice worrying it can't last. Deep in the plumbing of the financial system, he has noticed strange things happening which could threaten the whole economy. But nobody wants to hear it: not the politicians taking credit for an end to boom and bust, not the bankers pocketing vast bonuses, not even Gil's bosses at the BBC, who think it's irrelevant. When Gil gets a tip-off that a small northern bank has run out of money, everything changes. His report sparks the first run on a UK bank in 140 years. The next day, Marilyn Krol, a director of the Bank of England dies in an apparent suicide. For Gil, it's personal. Marilyn was his lover: was his scoop connected to her suicide? Or is there something more sinister in her death? Gil is determined to find out. The more he investigates, the more he is drawn into the rotten heart of the financial system, where old school ties and secret Oxbridge societies lubricate vast and illegal conflicts of interest. The whole economy has been built on a house of cards, and Gil is threatening to bring it down. When simply reporting the facts can make or break fortunes, Gil has to ask himself: is he crossing the line between journalist and participant? Are his own conflicts of interest making him reckless? And in a world ruled by greed where nothing and no-one is too big to fail, what price will he pay for uncovering the truth? PRAISE FOR ROBERT PESTON'S DEBUT THRILLER, THE WHISTLEBLOWER: 'Brilliant' - THE TIMES 'Cracking' - DAILY MAIL 'Winning' - SUNDAY TIMES 'A hell of a read' - OBSERVER 'Enthralling' - FINANCIAL TIMES 'Enjoyable, intelligent' - GUARDIAN 'A romping thriller' - INDEPENDENT 'A rollicking read' - EVENING STANDARD 'A gripping thriller' - DAILY EXPRESS 'Fascinating' - DAILY MIRROR 'Gripping' - RADIO TIMES 'Compelling' - THE SUN

Author : Francis James
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,55 MB
Release : 2019-09-27
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ISBN : 0244514127

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Having spent a week on the beautiful island of Mallorca with his wife, Francis decided it would be a wonderful place to live. But what to do there? Then he hit on the brilliant idea of running a caf� bar. Simple . . . and with a bit of help from the family what could possibly go wrong? . .

Author : Anthony Hotson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107198585

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Anthony Hotson reassesses the development of London's money and credit markets since the great currency crisis of 1695.

Author : Kate Kenny
Publisher :
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 2019-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674975790

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When people try to speak up about serious wrongdoing in their organizations, they are often ignored and sometimes punished for their efforts. Society tends to accept the suffering of whistleblowers, who often experience significant retaliation, as more or less normal. This book challenges this acceptance. It explores how the narrative might be changed. Whistleblowing draws on emergent theories in the fields of organization studies and sociology to address the questions of why whistleblowers are frequently ignored and why, if they are acknowledged for speaking up, they are then isolated by colleagues, industry peers, and even loved ones. Kate Kenny offers a new way to understand whistleblowing and the experiences of those involved in it, and explains both how whistleblowers can cope and survive their ordeal and how organizations can change to protect and benefit from whistleblowers.--

Author : Adam Barber
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030702545

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This book demonstrates the variation in the reaction of the UK’s ‘big four’ banks – RBS, Lloyds, Barclays and HSBC – to the Great Financial Crisis 2008. Over a decade on from the financial crisis, this book asks: have banks in the UK learned lessons from the crisis? Bank learning in the UK after the Great Financial Crisis is something we need to know more about. Whether banks are now safer and more likely to aid rather than disrupt the economy are important questions of social relevance. Through a documentary analysis of Britain’s ‘big four’ banks in the post-crisis decade (2008–2018), this book demonstrates that while some institutions have become more risk averse and display positive signs of learning, others have shown little evidence of change. The book uses notions of agency, path dependency and structural competitive pressures to explain these inter-bank variations of behaviour. This book contributes to wider post-crash structural debates about growth, markets, and regulatory reform, showing how the agency of banks has played a vital role in driving the reform process.