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Professors Soderquist and Gabaldon have authored a text that is concise, painless, well organized and that provides a solid understanding of the basic securities laws, retaining the familiar user friendly format while offering expanded coverage of issues raised by the use of the Internet. One object of this text is to get a student on tract and keep him or her there. Another is to help in reviewing material and preparing for examinations. The authors define what a security is and examine the world of securities law. The book explains how securities are registered under the Securities Act and identifies exemptions from the requirements. Addresses resales, liability for violations, reporting, proxy regulation, and tender offers. Reviews Rule 10b 5 and short swing trading. Also addresses international aspects of securities law

After the economic meltdown of 2008, Warren Buffett famously warned, "beware of geeks bearing formulas." But as James Weatherall demonstrates, not all geeks are created equal. While many of the mathematicians and software engineers on Wall Street failed when their abstractions turned ugly in practice, a special breed of physicists has a much deeper history of revolutionizing finance. Taking us from fin-de-siècle Paris to Rat Pack-era Las Vegas, from wartime government labs to Yippie communes on the Pacific coast, Weatherall shows how physicists successfully brought their science to bear on some of the thorniest problems in economics, from options pricing to bubbles.The crisis was partly a failure of mathematical modeling. But even more, it was a failure of some very sophisticated financial institutions to think like physicists. Models—whether in science or finance—have limitations; they break down under certain conditions. And in 2008, sophisticated models fell into the hands of people who didn't understand their purpose, and didn't care. It was a catastrophic misuse of science.The solution, however, is not to give up on models; it's to make them better. Weatherall reveals the people and ideas on the cusp of a new era in finance. We see a geophysicist use a model designed for earthquakes to predict a massive stock market crash. We discover a physicist-run hedge fund that earned 2,478.6% over the course of the 1990s. And we see how an obscure idea from quantum theory might soon be used to create a far more accurate Consumer Price Index.Both persuasive and accessible, The Physics of Wall Street is riveting history that will change how we think about our economic future.

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