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Corn futures : volume of trading, open commitments, and prices from January 3, 1933, to December 31, 1935 / by United States.Commodity Exchange Administration.;
Subjects: Corn industry; Agricultural estimating and reporting.;
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Guide to financial markets / by Levinson, Marc.;
Why markets matter -- Foreign-exchange markets -- Money markets -- Bond markets -- Securitisation -- International fixed-income markets -- Equity markets -- Commodities and futures markets -- Options and derivatives markets.
Subjects: Finance.;
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How to find business information : a guide for business people, investors, and researchers / by Heckman, Lucy,1954-(CARDINAL)775801;
MARCIVE 3/5/13Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: the business research process: guides to guides and resources to build the business collection -- How to find industry information -- Information about companies -- Personal finance and investing: introductory sources and guides -- The stock market -- Investing in bonds, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds -- Commodities, options, futures, derivatives, and hedge funds -- Economics -- Money and banking -- Insurance -- Management and small business management and entrepreneurship -- Marketing and advertising -- Careers and job hunting -- Accounting -- Taxation -- Real estate -- Appendix I: Acronyms and abbreviations -- Appendix II: Major business libraries -- Appendix III: Directory of major business-related federal government departments, agencies, and resources -- Appendix IV: Major stock markets and securities exchanges."This fact-filled guide serves as an introductory handbook or as a refresher for those who want to research a specific topic or update their research skills"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Business; Internet searching.;
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Black Monday and the future of financial markets / by Barro, Robert J.(CARDINAL)137392; Kamphuis, Robert W.(CARDINAL)193569; Kormendi, Roger C.(CARDINAL)140934; Watson, J. W. Henry.(CARDINAL)193570;
Includes bibliographical references.Overview / Allan H. Meltzer -- The International Crash of October 1987 / Richard W. Roll -- Perspectives on October 1987, or, what did we learn from the Crash? / Eugene F. Fama -- The Stock Market and the macroeconomy : implications of the October 1987 Crash / Robert J. Barro -- October 1987 and the structure of financial markets : an exorcism of demons / Lester G. Telser -- Should one agency regulate financial markets? / Daniel R. Fischel -- The report of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms -- Preliminary and final reports of the Committee of Inquiry convened by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange -- Report of the International Stock Exchange of London -- The final report of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission -- The report of the Division of Market Regulation, Securities and Exchange Commission -- Preliminary observations on the Crash, U.S. General Accounting Office.
Subjects: Stock Market Crash, 1987.; Stocks;
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Spent : a comic novel / by Bechdel, Alison,1960-author,artist.(CARDINAL)758134; Taylor, Holly Rae,1967-colorist.; Chad, Jon,artist.(CARDINAL)593903; Mariner Books,publisher.;
"In Alison Bechdel's hilariously skewering and gloriously cast new comic novel confection, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel, running a pygmy goat sanctuary in Vermont, is existentially irked by a climate-challenged world and a citizenry on the brink of civil war. She wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathingly self-critical memoir about her own greed and privilege? Meanwhile, Alison's first graphic memoir about growing up with her father, a taxidermist who specialized in replicas of Victorian animal displays, has been adapted into a highly successful TV series. It's a phenomenon that makes Alison, formerly on the cultural margins, the envy of her friend group (recognizable as characters, now middle-aged and living communally in Vermont, from Bechdel's beloved comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For). As the TV show Death and Taxidermy racks up Emmy after Emmy--and when Alison's Pauline Bunyanesque partner Holly posts an instructional wood-chopping video that goes viral--Alison's own envy spirals. Why couldn't she be the writer for a critically lauded and wildly popular reality TV show...like Queer Eye...showing people how to free themselves from consumer capitalism and live a more ethical life?!! Spent's rollicking and masterful denouement--making the case for seizing what's true about life in the world at this moment, before it's too late--once again proves that "nobody does it better" (New York Times Book Review) than the real Alison Bechdel"--
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Autobiographical comics.; Autobiographical fiction.; Comics (Graphic works); Bechdel, Alison, 1960-; Farm life; Farm life; Cartoonists; Cartoonists; Television programs; Lesbians; Lesbians;
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Final passages : the intercolonial slave trade of British America, 1619-1807 / by O'Malley, Gregory E.(CARDINAL)327004;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Final Passages: Captives in the Intercolonial Slave Trade -- Black Markets for Black Labor: Pirates, Privateers, and Interlopers in the Origins of the Intercolonial Slave Trade, ca. 1619-1720 -- Captive Markets for Captive People: Legal Dispersals of Africans in a Peripheral Economy, ca. 1640-1700 -- To El Dorado via Slave Trade: Opening Commerce with Foreign Colonies, ca. 1660-1713 -- The North American Periphery of the Caribbean Slave Trade, ca. 1700-1763 -- A for Asiento: The Slave Trade from British to Foreign Colonies, ca. 1713-1739 -- Entrepôts and Hinterlands: African Migration to the North American Backcountry, ca. 1750-1807 -- American Slave Trade, American Free Trade: Climax of the Intercolonial Slave Trade, ca. 1750-1807 -- Epilogue: Defending the Human Commodity; or, Diversity and Diaspora -- Appendix: Estimating the Scale of the Intercolonial Slave Trade"This work explores a neglected aspect of the forced migration of African laborers to the Americas. Hundreds of thousands of captive Africans continued their journeys after the Middle Passage across the Atlantic. Colonial merchants purchased and then transshipped many of these captives to other colonies for resale. Not only did this trade increase death rates and the social and cultural isolation of Africans; it also fed the expansion of British slavery and trafficking of captives to foreign empires, contributing to Britain's preeminence in the transatlantic slave trade by the mid-eighteenth century. The pursuit of profits from exploiting enslaved people as commodities facilitated exchanges across borders, loosening mercantile restrictions and expanding capitalist networks. Drawing on a database of over seven thousand intercolonial slave trading voyages compiled from port records, newspapers, and merchant accounts, O'Malley identifies and quantifies the major routes of this intercolonial slave trade. He argues that such voyages were a crucial component in the development of slavery in the Caribbean and North America and that trade in the unfree led to experimentation with free trade between empires."--Publisher's Web site
Subjects: Slave trade; Slave trade;
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Exchange-traded funds / by Wild, Russell,author.(CARDINAL)363486;
The ABCs of ETFs. No longer the new kid on the block ; What the heck is an ETF, anyway? ; Getting to know the players -- Building the stock (equity) side of your portfolio. Risk control, diversification, and some other things you need to know ; Large growth: muscular money makers ; Large value: counterintuitive cash cows ; Small growth: sweet sounding start-ups ; Small value: diminutive dazzlers ; Going global: ETFs without borders ; Sector investing: ETFs according to industry ; Real estate investment trusts: becoming a virtual landlord ; Dividend funds: the search for steady money -- Adding bonds (fixed income) to your portfolio. For your interest: the world of bond ETFs ; Your basic bonds: Treasuries, agency bonds, and corporates ; Moving beyond basics into municipal and foreign bonds -- Specialized ETFs. All that glitters: gold, silver, and other commodities ; Investing for a better world ; Going active with ETFs ; All-in-one ETFs: for the ultimate lazy portfolio ; Proceed-with-caution ETFs -- Putting it all together. Sample ETF portfolio menus ; Exercising patience: the key to any investment success ; Exceptions to the rule (ain't there always) ; Using ETFs to fund your fun (retirement) years ; Marrying ETFs and non-ETFs to make an optimal portfolio -- The part of tens. Ten FAQs about ETFs ; Ten mistakes most investors (even smart ones) make ; Ten forecasts about the future of ETFs and personal investing.
Subjects: Exchange traded funds.; Stock index futures.;
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Zamumo's gifts : Indian-European exchange in the colonial Southeast / by Hall, Joseph M.(CARDINAL)304396;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The spirit of a feather: the politics of Mississippian exchange -- Floods and feathers: from the Mississippian to the Floridian -- Seeking the Atlantic: the growth of trade -- Following the white path: migration and the Muskogees' quest for security -- Creating white hearts: anxious alliances amid the slave trade -- The Yamasee war: trade reformed, a region reoriented -- Cries of "Euchee!": Imperial trade in a Creek southeast -- Gifts and trade, towns and empires.In 1540, Zamumo, the chief of the Altamahas in central Georgia, exchanged gifts with the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto. With these gifts began two centuries of exchanges that bound American Indians and the Spanish, English, and French who colonized the region. Whether they gave gifts for diplomacy or traded commodities for profit, Natives and newcomers alike used the exchange of goods such as cloth, deerskin, muskets, and sometimes people as a way of securing their influence. Gifts and trade enabled early colonies to survive and later colonies to prosper. Conversely, they upset the social balance of chiefdoms like Zamumo's and promoted the rise of new and powerful Indian confederacies like the Creeks and the Choctaws.
Subjects: Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Europeans; Europeans;
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All about index funds : the easy way to get started / by Ferri, Richard A.(CARDINAL)433358;
Index funds explained -- Why index funds beat most other funds -- The history behind indexing -- Exchange-traded funds (ETFS) -- Tax advantages of index funds & ETFS -- Broad U.S. equity market funds -- U.S. sector equity funds -- Global and international equity funds -- Alternative U.S equity funds -- Investing in bonds index funds -- Commodity and currency funds -- Forecasting index fund returns -- Asset allocation basics -- Defining your financial goals -- Designing your index fund portfolio -- Managing an index fund account.
Subjects: Index mutual funds.; Index mutual funds;
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Guide to financial markets : why they exist and how they work / by Levinson, Marc.(CARDINAL)196134;
Why markets matter -- Foreign-exchange markets -- Money markets -- Bond markets -- Securitisation -- International fixed-income markets -- Equity markets -- Futures and options markets -- Derivatives markets.Extensively revised and updated following the fallout from the global financial crisis, the 6th edition of this highly regarded book brings the reader right up to speed with the latest financial market developments, and provides a clear and incisive guide to a complex world that even those who work in it often find hard to understand. In chapters on the markets that deal with money, foreign exchange, equities, bonds, commodities, financial futures, options and other derivatives, the book examines why these markets exist, how they work, and who trades in them, and gives a run-down of the factors that affect prices and rates. Business history is littered with disasters that occurred because people involved their firms with financial instruments they didn't properly understand. If they had had this book they might have avoided their mistakes. For anyone wishing to understand financial markets, there is no better guide.
Subjects: Finance.;
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