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A scathing dissection of the wheeling and dealing in the worlds greatest financial center. Spot rates, zero coupons, blue chips, futures, options on futures, indexes, options on indexes. The vocabulary of a financial market can seem arcane, even impenetrable. Yet despite its opacity, financial news and comment is ubiquitous. Major national newspapers devote pages of newsprint to the financial sector and television news invariably features a visit to the market for the latest prices. Does this prodigious flow of information have significance for anyone except the tiny percentage of people who have significant holdings of stocks or bonds? And if it does, can non-specialists ever hope to understand what the markets are up to? To these questions Wall Street answers an emphatic yes. Its author Doug Henwood is a notorious scourge of the stock exchange in the pages of his acerbic publication Left Business Observer. The Newsletter has received wide acclamation from J.K. Galbraith, among others, and occasional less favorable comment. Norman Pearlstine, then executive editor of the Wall Street Journal, lamented, You are scum ... its tragic that you exist. With compelling clarity, Henwood dis

Author

Henwood, Doug

Publisher

London ; New York: Verso

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780860914952

Subjects

Economics, Finance, Political Science

Rating

4.04 / 5 (129 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14