Background
Mayer, Martin Prager was born on January 14, 1928 in New York City. Son of Henry and Ruby (Prager) Mayer.
(The sequel to The Bankers explores the fluid nature of ba...)
The sequel to The Bankers explores the fluid nature of banking and money in the computer age, the changing economic role of banks and other financial institutions, the growth of credit cards and ATM machines, and the impact of computerized trading.
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(The US stock markets were designed to handle a large volu...)
The US stock markets were designed to handle a large volume of small orders for individuals who paid brokers well to do their business. Today, they process a small volume of large orders from institutional investors, most of whom pay their brokers only a few cents a share. The community of brokers gets even by trading against its customers, often secretly or through hidden nominees, while the institutions are seeking new settings for trading without informing their brokers. And the SEC has proved unwilling or unable to step in and police these off-the-floor activities. This insidious phenomenon - the growing tendency of brokers to trade against their customers - affects the investor. This book chronicles the history and implications of these changes, which burst into public consciousness in the summer of 1991 with the revelations of Salomon Brothers' abuse of its customers in the US bond market. The author, a financial writer, introduces a cast of characters, from Leo Melamed, born in a Polish shtel - who as head of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange made some people very rich by inventing a cadre of arbitrage traders to William J. Casey, former spymaster, who as chairman of the SEC engineered the end of fixed broker commissions. Here is a close look at the world of finance as it existed before and after the computer era - and a sober analysis of what may have been lost, financially and otherwise. Martin Mayer is the author of "The Greatest Ever Bank Robbery" and "The Bankers".
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(In this account of the US savings and loan industry colla...)
In this account of the US savings and loan industry collapse, Mayer details how the disaster came about, who is to blame, and what - if anything - the American tax-paying public can do about it.
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(In this account of the US savings and loan industry colla...)
In this account of the US savings and loan industry collapse, Mayer details how the disaster came about, who is to blame, and what - if anything - the American tax-paying public can do about it.
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(In the 1980s Salomon Brothers was the epitome of modern W...)
In the 1980s Salomon Brothers was the epitome of modern Wall Street. Traders became bankers, wielding the trader's weapons of guts, merit and luck, and broke through all the traditional barriers and built a financial giant. In the summer of 1991, Salomon was a world power with $170 billion in assets, a force in London and Tokyo as well as New York, and by far the largest dealer in US government securities. But Salomon had also become the self-indulgent corporate bully skewered in "Bonfire of the Vanities" and "Liar's Poker", hated for its arrogance and feared for its clout. Its top executives began to think they could write their own rules. When the firm manipulated the government bond market in a $10 billion scandal, they destroyed not only careers but the reputation of their house in a business where reputation is everything. This book looks at Salomon Brothers' influence and power.
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Illustrated with hundreds of photographs and based on research in the Met's massive archives, this history chronicles and celebrates the Met's first one hundred years and the legendary stars and conductors who have performed there.
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(The Money Bazaars: Understanding the Banking Revolution A...)
The Money Bazaars: Understanding the Banking Revolution Around Us Hardcover Martin Mayer (Author) 394 pages Publisher: Dutton Adult; 1st edition (May 21, 1984)
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Mayer, Martin Prager was born on January 14, 1928 in New York City. Son of Henry and Ruby (Prager) Mayer.
AB, Harvard University, 1947. Doctor of Literature (honorary), Wake Forest University, 1977. Doctor of Literature (honorary), Adelphi University, 1981.
Reporter, New York Journal Commerce, 1947-1948. Assistant editor Labor and Nation, 1948-1949. Editor Hillman Periodicals, 1949-1951.
Associate editor Esquire magazine, 1951-1954, record critic, 1952-1975. Freelance writer, since 1954. New York critic Opera Magazine (England), 1985—2004.
Columnist American Banker, 1987-1989. Research director study of international secondary education Twentieth Century Fund, 1965-1966. Consultant American Council Learned Societies, 1961-1963, Twentieth Century Fund, Carnegie Foundation, Ford Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Kettering Foundation.
(The sequel to The Bankers explores the fluid nature of ba...)
(Illustrated with hundreds of photographs and based on res...)
(In this account of the US savings and loan industry colla...)
(In this account of the US savings and loan industry colla...)
(The Money Bazaars: Understanding the Banking Revolution A...)
(The US stock markets were designed to handle a large volu...)
(The US stock markets were designed to handle a large volu...)
(The story of a great trial lawyer of the 1920's, and of h...)
(In the 1980s Salomon Brothers was the epitome of modern W...)
(Beautiful Book Featuring the Iconoclast's of Finance)
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Member President's Panel on Educational Research and Development, 1961-1966. Member education committee Music Critics Association, 1978-1982. Chairman New York City Local School Board, 1962-1967.
Commissioner National Commission on Reform Secondary Education, 1972-1973. Board visitors Wake Forest University, 1972-1987. Member President's Commission on Housing, 1981-1982.
Member of Century (New York City). Gardiner's Bay (Shelter Island, New York ).
Married Ellen Moers, June 23, 1949 (deceased August 1979). Children: Thomas, James. Married Karin Lissakers, October 25, 1980.
Children: Fredrica, Henry.