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Trading Practices, the Barings Group, and Nick Leeson

As he has been pointed out in much of the financial media that has covered this issue, the derivative instruments that ended up ca...

Enigma of 1989 by Jacques Levesque

of the U.S.S.R. and what it all means. One is left with a sense that what occurred in the headlines is really more than the defeat...

Second World War and Nazi Germany

said in hindsight. Consider that the average German citizen blamed Weimar personally for acquiescing to the contentions of the Tre...

Ancient History of Mali

Mali trade centered not only around agricultural products, however, but also included ivory, and gold (Library of Congress Country...

Retail and Electronic Commerce

what customers will logically expect from these companies. As can be expected, new models are being created for these so-called "...

Investigationg the L'Ambiance Plaza Collapse

might have happened on that fateful day, it seems that lift-slab construction is a good part of the reason for the collapse. At le...

Globalization, Collapse of Communism, and the New World Order

In five pages this paper examines the Cold War, globalization, and communism's collapse in this conceptual view of the 'New World ...

Not by Bread Alone by Melissa Caldwell

the society of post-socialist/communist Russia. One of her focuses involves a feud between a couple of the "regulars" at t...

Collapse of HIH Insurance Ltd. and the Effects on Small Businesses in Australia

only a week before it was completed. Chief executive Ray Williams raised the issue with board members over dinner, telling the gr...

Major Themes of 'The Chrysanthemums' by John Steinbeck

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...

The Balkans

that have been conducive to even more terrorist activity. The twentieth century both began and ended with bloodshed in the ...

Collapse of the West Indian Federation

2005). They would possess "internal self-government for each unit territory" (Sanders, 2005). These ideas, however, did not come...

2 Trade Textbooks on Investment and Mathematics Reviewed

view this formula as an effective means of reducing vulnerability to the financial insecurity which so frequently results in the r...

Soviet Union's Downfall and Reports by American Intelligence

drop in performance indicators, might strengthen conservative opposition. Such trends, coupled with the continuing nationality tu...

Analysis of Enron

days, compared to how they would become (Braquet, 2002). Skilling focused Enrons core business, that of buying a commodity and sel...

Ancient Empires Collapse

of the Fifth Dynasty, Userkhaf (2465-2458 BC) "initiated reforms that weakened the Pharaoh and central government. After his reign...

Eurasia Civilizations and Differences

1993). China or eastern Asia is so large and the population so great that China is considered to be a civilization all of its own....

The Purpose and Reason for the End of Communism

years. Why? "In 1961 the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, made a speech predicting...

Economic Bubbles

that flows. The crashes can result in large levels of wealth being destroyed and the potential for the crash to cause a depression...

The Bankruptcy of Enron and Auditing

between Enrons accounting statements and the fiscal reality of the institutions assets and obligations. One might view the major f...

MACULAN GROUP: CASE ANALYSIS

company tripled its number of employees and quadrupled its gross revenue. It increased these things through vertical integration -...

WorldCom and Rising Auditing Standards

stock prices and other similar situations. When it is determined that an investigation should delve further into the busine...

The Collapse of the Maya Society

that were once great and in some cases spanned the globe no longer exist. The Roman Empire was feared throughout the known world o...

The Middle East and the Development of the Industrial State

the increasing development of centralized state powers devoted to the development of industry in countries such as Iran. The Ott...

The Collapse of the Berlin Wall

the re-unification of Germany, the break-up of the Soviet Union, the predominance of capitalism over state-directed economies, the...

The Virgin Islands - Trouble in Paradise

world, is suffering an economic downturn. This paper explores some of the issues facing the islanders. Discussion Part of the pro...

Economy of Turkey and the Impact of the Failed Turkish Banking System

In twenty pages this paper examines how the failed Turkish banking system contributed to the country's economic collapse. Eleven ...

David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb

In 5 pages this paper discusses Remnick's version of the Soviet Union's collapse and also offers different ideological interpretat...

Lenin's Tomb by Remnick

In five pages this text review criticizes the author's credibility and biased depiction of Communism and the Soviet Union's collap...

Enron, the Contribution of Masculine Culture to its Downfall

the epitome of stereotypical masculinity almost to the point of caricature. Skilling once said that he had thought about it a lot ...