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Perhaps you've seen TV shows on flipping and thought, "I can do that." Maybe you're tempted by the lure of easy profits. There is money to be made by flipping residential properties, but there's risk involved, too. This book helps you get started or improve your flipping skills (and your profits) with info on finding appropriate properties, financing your purchase, making improvements that will pay off, negotiating with contractors, and more. Whether you're interested in undertaking only cosmetic improvements or in totally gutting a property, this guide helps you with everything from choosing and redoing the right house or condo to selling it for maximum profit. With tips from experienced flippers, it includes:
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In this extensive history of U.S. monetary policy, Richard H. Timberlake chronicles the intellectual, political, and economic developments that prompted the use of central banking institutions to regulate the monetary systems.
After describing the constitutional principles that the Founding Fathers laid down to prevent state and federal governments from printing money. Timberlake shows how the First and Second Banks of the United States gradually assumed the central banking powers that were originally denied them. Drawing on congressional debates, government documents, and other primary sources, he analyses the origins and constitutionality of the greenbacks and examines the evolution of clearinghouse associations as private lenders of last resort. He completes this history with a study of the legislation that fundamentally changed the power and scope of the Federal Reserve System—the Banking Act of 1935 and the Monetary Control Act of 1980.
Writing in nontechnical language, Timberlake demystifies two centuries of monetary policy. He concludes that central banking has been largely a series of politically inspired government-serving actions that have burdened the private economy.
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Comprehesive guide.......2005-12-01
This book is a great introduction to the history of monetary policy in the United States. The readability and coverage of subjects allows for a working knowledge of what happened during the major episodes which are covered by this book. The work is faithfully cited to original sources and to other comments which have been made. I bought this book as an undergraduate looking for some more detail to satisfy my curiosity on the some issues raised in classes. I have revisited it many times, and find it a great refresher for encountering new questions to research.
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This digital document is an article from Southern Economic Journal, published by Southern Economic Association on April 1, 1995. The length of the article is 1180 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Monetary Policy in the United States: An Intellectual and Institutional History. (book reviews)
Author: J. Daniel Hammond
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Southern Economic Journal (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 1995
Publisher: Southern Economic Association
Volume: v61
Issue: n4
Page: p1239(2)
Article Type: Book Review
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How do you figure out what career you would truly love while you're still in college? What's the best way to pick a major? How can you get and stay motivated? Finally, a book that answers the important questions about being a successful student! With so much at stake during the college years—your career, your success, your future, your happiness—you need smart, savvy, and inspiring ideas to ensure you excel. Author Patrick Combs helps you discover your passion, and reveals how to make the most of your college years and land a dream job. In this revised edition, you'll find new resources, updated websites, the latest job market research, a new handy appendix, and fresh success stories. Whatever your dream, whatever your major, whatever your age, MAJOR IN SUCCESS is an investment in your future.
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AMAZING!.......2006-12-29
I read this book after getting it for free at a conference that Patrick spoke at, and I have never enjoyed a book like I did this one. It is very helpful in being successful, and I think I learned more from this book after reading it in one day than I learned all semester! Once I opened the book, I couldn't put it down!
This book saved me!.......2006-03-03
This book saved me from making big mistakes in my college decisions. I was majoring in things I hated only because it would mean I would be financially secure when I am truly passionate about art. The author inspires you and gets you going. He gave me the courage to do what I love and make money. That is real success.
This book should be required reading for all high school students so they can make the right choices first without wasting years of frustration about choosing the right major.
MUST READ FOR ALL !!.......2004-08-19
If you have already made it, then pass it on. Fed up at my possibilities at age 50 and fed up with the system I was introduced in my college years, I have spent thousands of dollars in the past couple of years for the information in this book. This is an absolute MUST READ for every person stuck in a dead end rut, as well as the young person thinking about life after high school. All the answers are here for the proper mind set, which is tantamount for harnessing passion for life after high school. This author has it all together in terms of offering proper advice speaking to passion and not academics!! I can't say enough about how refreshing this read is.........Go for all he has to share. So many websites and phone referrals..get your highlighter out. You will have plenty of action to follow up on.......FABULOUS book for the young person and reiteration for the already entrepreneur......GREAT BOOK! It will not disappoint!
A work well done.......2004-04-10
This book is a valuable aid in finding a wonderful job. I believe the author does a great job of providing the reader with the information needed to succeed in today's challenging job market. As a fellow author on the topic, "How to find your dream job and make it a reality: solutions for a rewarding and meaningful career," I think this book is great and would be a wonderful complementing resource.
This book is a must-read for anyone who is serious about finding a new job.
The best of the best self-help books out there!.......2004-02-15
Wow! I don't know where to start about this book. Major in Success is such a power tool to help ANYONE (not only college students!) to look for their dream job. I don't know where else I would be without these helpful tips, practical reasonings, and great feedback from people who ALREADY made it! I would definitely recommend it to anyone who are chasing after their dreams but are too shy too. It made a difference in me and I think it would definitely make a difference in you! Here's the big plus: The author is donating 100% of the profits to charities. Not only are you helping yourself, you are helping the world too!
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Now bestselling author D. A. Benton shows you how to break through your personal glass ceiling and earn $100,000 a year -- or more! Her can-do plan not only helps you change your whole approach to making money but, more important, helps you make new choices that lead to a happier, more successful life in every way. Learn how to:
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-- EARN $100K BY STRIKING OUT ON YOUR OWN.
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Cha-ching!.......2001-05-18
This is the way it is done. Debra Benton did it...so can we.
A Solid Effort!.......2001-05-09
The dust cover claims this book is worth its weight in gold. Its last chapter, which outlines the 20 steps to earning $100,000 a year, could well make it so. If you buy the book, read the final chapter first. D.A. Benton’s 20 steps are clear and easy to follow. Once you know them, the rest of the book provides excellent supporting information. Benton shows examples of how specific individuals (many of them high-profile celebrities and athletes) used each step to achieve success. This book offers no get-rich-quick schemes. The author advocates a logical, methodical approach to making $100,000 per year. She is so confident that she makes a guarantee: If you put maximum effort into all 20 steps, you will become a member of the $100,000 Club. We [...] recommend this book to anyone interested in making a six-figure income.
The book is now my secret weapon!.......2000-09-26
I am a real person, and a simple reader. Mentioning the above is simply to claim the authenticity of my review, not some made up or conspired opinion or expression, but a true and genuine review. This is one of the greatest and best books I ever read by far, especially in it's own category. What it's contents cover and how the whole book is put together is a marvelous and tremendous work. I am only about half way through the book and it's definitely my mental coach, encouragement, inspiration, motivation, and secret weapon of all things, already. Some or perhaps many of the ideas in the book are not new inventions, but how the author was able to put everything together in such an excellently constructed order, along with her own professional knowledge, and wisdom surely amazes me. Never before have I heard of D. A. Benton But I have now a great admiration for her and started search all the books she's written. I wouldn't want my competitors at work know about this book but worse is to see all the disgusting reviews written by people who do not have an appreciation for great work. And others being misleaded by those reviews. That's the reason I had to write this. That's how good this book is.
not a total waste of money, not a necessary investment.......2000-07-18
I disagree with some of the other reviewers who said this tape is total trash. It is good for young people just getting into the career market, because it gives practical information to help make sure you are even aiming in the right direction for your goals. It helps give a broad perspective on your career as a whole, not "I just graduated now I have to use this degree somehow." Overall, I say it is a decent book, but I can do without her philosophical digressions at the beginning of the tape about how society tries to make us think money is evil.
Absolute pablum; save your time & money.......2000-02-24
Show up, work hard, dress well, take initiative, revere motherhood, etc. Nothing even remotely new or innovative in terms of career management or organizational behavior. Take a pass on this and try golf lessons instead...
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That's how Vanity Fair described the record business turmoil of the 1990s, which moved the Warner Music Group -- the world's number one record company -- from the entertainment pages to the front pages. Suddenly, decades of riotous fun and booming business went splat. Top music executives got evicted from their offices, some escorted by company guards. Why? The answers are in Exploding -- the most insightful and delightful book about the record business ever written.In the rock explosion of the Sixties and Seventies, Warner Bros., Atlantic, and Elektra Records dominated the business as the Warner Music Group. But by the Nineties, the success of WMG was shaken by egos and corporate politics that left the company struggling for identity in a dramatically changing industry. This is the story of that long, strange trip.Your host is the ultimate insider: Stan Cornyn, a key creative force behind the Warner Music Group's stunning rise. During more than thirty years at the company, Cornyn went through what the news media could never uncover. In a freewheeling, vastly entertaining narrative, Cornyn takes us behind the scenes, seats us in the conference rooms, and shows us the interactions between the stars and the suits -- using the same irreverent wit that produced the marketing campaigns that helped put Warner on the map.Exploding is populated by music stars like Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Lil' Kim, Dr. Dre, the Grateful Dead, Queen, Madonna, Ice-T, Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa, Neil Young, Alice Cooper, and dozens more, even the legendary supergroup Scorpio. (Never heard of Scorpio? You'll find out why.) And it introduces you to the most colorful businesspeople ever: hyperintense record sellers who shave their heads; throw doves off a roof; send pig heads through the mail; provide the money, meds, and mammaries -- anything -- to get their records on the air. Here is the music business as you've never seen it: at its wildest, in its wackiest fifty years, bursting with hits and cash, until, by the end, it's just plain Exploding.
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Are we talking about the same book?.......2004-06-26
"Exploding is populated by music stars like Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Lil' Kim, Dr. Dre, the Grateful Dead, Queen, Madonna, Ice-T, Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa, Neil Young, Alice Cooper, and dozens more".
Yeah? Where?
The artists are merely footnotes in this saga; weirdos to be tolerated (barely) and joked about. I spent a lot of money on this tome hoping to read about some of them. Instead I got 450 pages of business talk with about 4500 witticisms to amuse and confuse.
At least I found out why their awesome back catalogue has shamefully been left to earn whatever dollars it can in crappy 80's CD output (in the main) while other labels remaster properly and expand on their reissues - Warners just don't give a damn.
Won't be reading it again, I assure you.
Still hustling after all these years.......2003-12-07
Stan Cornyn should know all about hustlers. He took the art to a new low, and this book barely scratches the surface. It was Stan Cornyn who, in early January 1976, frisbeed a copy of my single "Friendly Neighborhood Narco Agent" across his office, and declared to Dr. Demento's manager, Larry Gordon, "You don't expect me to push this turkey, do you?"
"This turkey," which Warner Bros had secured from me for the "Dr. Demento's Delights" LP in late 1975, had been a consistent #1 hit on Demento's syndicated radio show for a year. The song received over 50 percent of the "Delights" album's airplay, and was responsible for pulling the LP into Billboard's Top 200. I sold 5000 indie singles myself before signing the deal with Warner. But when it came to picking up my album option and promoting "Narco Agent" as a single, Cornyn finally came out his closet. He and his A&R accomplice Pete Johnson told Gordon, "We're not interested in him, we hate his song, we're embarrassed to have it on our label, and we never had any intention of picking up his album option. Tell him, don't even bother coming by." For the rest of the story, see www.eljefe.net/fnnafaq.html.
Stan Cornyn's claim to fame is how many people he screwed. Now he admits it in print, and gets to bore us with the details. Been there, seen it the first time around. Don't waste your money.
Which is more interesting..........2003-09-02
...music and the people who create it, or music executives and the deals they grind out?
If you answered the latter, this book is for you. If you answered the former, you will be exasperatingly disappointed by this book.
Good writing, tedious content.
A must-read for anyone interested in the industry of records.......2003-08-18
Cornyn's role at Warner Brothers Records throughout its incredible rise and fall provided him a bird's-eye view of the construction, and eventually disassembly, of what was at its peak, the world's most artistically and commercially successful record company. As the company's creative director (he was the mind responsible for Warner's two-LP samplers in the 1970s, and the twisted copy with which they and other releases were advertised), Cornyn had a keen eye for the people and forces that shaped the label's growth, and its eventual fall.
Together with co-writer Paul Scanlon, Cornyn is truly engaging as he discusses the label's early history as an offshoot of the movie studio, and the numerous tributaries (artists, producers, label heads, subsidiary and sister labels) that flowed into its eventual success. The arc traced by the record business from the late 50s (when studio head Jack Warner decided it was time for the studio to try the record business again) through the early part of this century is a fascinating path of continual reinvention. Cornyn's story takes in the rise and fall of 45s, LPs, independently programmed radio stations, syndicate-like consulting, not to mention numerous well-known artistic and corporate personalities. He even covers the beginnings of the industry's current battle with file downloading and swapping.
The chapters discussing Warner's merger with Time-Life, and the resulting culture clashes and misplayed opportunities are fascinating. It's too bad that Cornyn retired before he could chronicle the subsequent Time-Warner merger with AOL. On the other hand, one might suspect that the personalities involved in the latter merger were nowhere near as colorful as the long-time record industry execs in the former.
This book is a fine mix of personal memoir and chronicle, written in witty prose that is surprisingly lacking in jaundice. This is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the record industry, yesterday and today.
Highly recommend for insomniacs.......2003-06-13
I expected a book with some inside dirt on the recording industry but this is a sleeper recounting the author's 40 years working in Warner management. Those 100 or so souls who actually care about the mundane history of Warner records will enjoy this book. The rest of us would be better off with a subscription to Rolling Stone.
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