
Paul Emil Erdman was one of the leading business and financial writers in the United States who became known for writing novels based on monetary trends and historical facts concerning complex matters of international finance. Erdman was born in Ontario, Canada, to American parents. He graduated from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He received his PhD from the University of Basel (in Switzerland). In 1958 he worked as a financial analyst for the European Coal and Steel Community. Between 1959 and 1961, he worked as an economist at the Stanford Research Institute at Menlo Park. Erdman returned to Switzerland where in 1965, he founded and was the president of a Swiss bank - the Salik Bank. In 1969, the United California Bank in California bought a majority stake and renamed it the United California Bank in Basel. The bank collapsed after taking large losses speculating in the cocoa market. Erdman and other board members were accused of fraud and Erdman spent time in jail awaiting trial. While in jail, he wrote his first novel - The Billion Dollar Sure Thing (1973). It received a 1974 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel and was published in the UK as The Billion Dollar Killing. He was released on bail and fled from Switzerland. He was subsequently convicted in absentia. His second novel, the The Silver Bears (1974) was turned into a 1978 movie of the same name, starring Michael Caine. His books were well researched and contain convincing details. Despite the underlying complexity of his novels, his lucid writing style had enabled readers to learn complex concepts such as interest rate swaps, and his novels had often been bestsellers. The information in The Swiss Account is credited with providing a basis for helping track down the assets of Jewish victims of the holocaust.
The Crash of '79 is a book so real that its plot reads like today's headlines. The central figure is that world traveler, playboy, despot, and winter-sports enthusiast His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Iran, whose grandiose and megalomaniacal dreams, nurtured in secret and financed by oil money, engulf the lives of Erdman's characters, each of whom, unknowingly, is contributing to the event that will bring about the Crash of '79 and the demise of the industrial West.Bill Hitchcock, the hero, is a successful banker, divorced skirt-chaser, confirmed cynic and financial genius. It is Hitchcock whom the Saudi Arabians pick to manage their vast hoard of accumulated oil profits and to fire a warning shot across the bows of the Western financial community. And no sooner has Hitchcock sat down at his desk in Riyadh than he learns just how precariously balanced the Western world's financial system really is.Before long Hitchcock is wheeling and dealing at the highest levels of government, while pursuing Ursula Hartmann, beautiful Swiss daughter of one of the world's most distinguished nuclear scientists. Through her he becomes aware that the Saudi's, for all their oil and money, have a problem of their own - the Shah or Iran's ambition to control the entire Middle East and its precious oil...
In Switzerland, in 1945, American Nancy Reichman is assigned to stop the flow of Swiss arms shipments into Nazi Germany and to sabotage the German atomic bomb project. By the author of The Panic of '89.
Takeover artist Willy Saxon returns from prison to Wall Street with a ruthless and beautiful accomplice, an airtight plan, and a tax-free bond worth billions
Fact sometimes trails in the footsteps of fiction, and so it is that events in the real world have followed much the course predicted by Paul Erdman's famous novel. Written when the first Arab oil embargo sent shock waves through our carefully balanced and delicately tuned economic system, THE BILLION DOLLAR SURE THING describes a plot to control the world's monetary assets.
Imprisoned unexpectedly by the Swiss police, former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board Charlie Black and his wife agree to take part in an elaborate escape scheme, unwittingly launching the couple into the midst of those who had framed him.
Two Venezuelan brothers devise an ingenious plan for collecting a vast fortune by engineering a chain of events that sends America's economy into a tailspin and only Paul Mayer can stop it
London. 18 cm. 312 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. Paul E. Erdman. Originally London : Secker & Warburg, 1981 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 0722133502
In the same vivid eye-of-the-Desert-Storm way in which he reported the drama & danger of the Gulf War, journalist Peter Arnett shares the adventures, the gambles, & the glory of his life--more than 35 years inside the world's war zones. B&W photos.
"Want to buy a casino?" These were words which would lead to a total revolution in the gaming industry in the United States of America...."What's the name of that casiono you have for sale?" Raffles. Danny Lehman nodded and said, "I think you might hear from me."....
In recent years, the value of the U.S. dollar has fluctuated wildly. Japanese investors have lost billions in U.S. markets, causing an almost unprecedented run on the dollar. The leaders of the world currency markets were forced to band together to push up the value of the U.S. dollar. Tug of Why You Should Care About the Global Currency Crisis is the riveting story of this flow of money around the globe and what it means for us today.In 1991, the Mexican government tied the value of the peso to the dollar. As the peso slid and almost vanished, the fortunes of the dollar waned. Investors around the world, especially the Japanese, lost confidence in the dollar, creating a soaring yen and dragging down the value of the dollar even more. Subsequent events in the world currency markets pulled the dollar in even more rogue traders lost billions on bad deals; the European Union began determining the value of its own currency; Japanese banks admitted enormous, previously concealed, losses. The tug of war continued. Paul Erdman, as well-known for his ability to predict financial markets as for his ability to write a suspenseful story, clearly explains the tangled basis and continuing strength of the currency crisis, gives his predictions about the future, and offers advice to market masters on the direction they should pursue. Significantly updated for this paperback edition, Tug of War, as compelling as any novel, is certain to be one of the most important financial books of this or any other year. Readers will not want to be left out when Erdman predicts the winner in this economic battle.
by Paul Emil Erdman
Rating: 4.0 ⭐
Drawing on his own business and investment theories, the author forecasts a stock market crash in February 1989, followed by a profitable period during the 1990s, and offers investment tips and tactics
by Paul Emil Erdman
Rating: 3.3 ⭐
The noted economist and best-selling novelist analyzes the world economic system, discusses the deficiencies of Keynesian, supply-side and monetarist theories, and gives advice on planning for financial security
by Paul Emil Erdman
by Paul Emil Erdman
by Paul Emil Erdman
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by Paul Emil Erdman
by Paul Emil Erdman
by Paul Emil Erdman
by Paul Emil Erdman
by Paul Emil Erdman
When businessman Frank Rogers travels to Europe to finalize a multibillion-dollar missile deal, he finds himself caught in the middle of a wide-ranging bribery scheme that threatens America's dominant position in world affairs
by Paul Emil Erdman
by Paul Emil Erdman
by Paul Emil Erdman
by Paul Emil Erdman
by Paul Emil Erdman
by Paul Emil Erdman
by Paul Emil Erdman
by Paul Emil Erdman