Martin H Mayer

The Fed: The Inside Story of How the World's Most Powerful Financial Institution Drives the Markets

The Federal Reserve system was designed, built and operated as an agency that forced its policies on American banks. The banks in turn had the power to push around the real economy. Now the Federal Reserve finds itself in a world where banks don't matter as much. Markets set interest rates, markets ...

The Bankers: The Next Generation The New Worlds Money Credit Banking Electronic Age (Truman Talley)

Twenty-two years ago, Martin Mayer's original and bestselling The Bankers took readers into every corner of the banking industry. Since then, everything to do with money and banking has changed dramatically. Computer-driven data processing has led to new kinds of financial instruments, new opportuni...

The Fed: The Inside Story How World's Most Powerful Financial Institution Drives Markets

Interest in Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve Board has never been greater and veteran financial journalist Martin Mayer delivers a first rate explanation of how the Fed works and how its decisions drive financial markets. The Fed has entered a new era, and few understand the rules of its game...

Investigator's Guide to the California Public Safety Officers Bill of Rights Act

Investigator's Guide to the California Public Safety Officers Bill of Rights Act is a comprehensive review of POBR. The authors have taken complex court decisions interpreting POBR and condensed them into a scenario based format using non-legal terms. This book is an excellent resource for IA person...

The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry

There have been some incredible financial swindles in the history of the United States, but none have even come close to the collapse of the savings and loan industry. In this brilliant account, Mayer details how the disaster came about, who is to blame, and what, if anything, taxpayers can do about...

Nightmare on Wall Street: Salomon Brothers and the Corruption of the Marketplace

In the 1980s Salomon Brothers was the epitome of modern Wall Street. Traders became bankers, wielding the trader's weapons of guts, merit and luck, and broke through all the traditional barriers and built a financial giant. In the summer of 1991, Salomon was a world power with $170 billion in assets...

The Met: One Hundred Years of Grand Opera

Illustrated with hundreds of photographs and based on research in the Met's massive archives, this history chronicles and celebrates the Met's first one hundred years and the legendary stars and conductors who have performed there.

New Breed on Wall Street

Beautiful Book Featuring the Iconoclast's of Finance

The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry

Today and Tomorrow in America

About Television

Trigger Points

The Judges: A Penetrating Exploration of American Courts And of the New Decisions---Hard Decisions---they Must Make for a New Millennium

The Lawyers

Whatever Happened to Madison Avenue: Advertising in the '90s

The Bankers

Martin Mayer

Martin Prager Mayer (born January 14, 1928, New York City) is the writer of 35 non-fiction books, including Madison Avenue, U.S.A. (1958), The Schools (1961),...