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It focuses on wealth and income inequality in europe and the united states since the 18th century. In between, the book dives deeply into the firms signature deals celanese. The book has also been translated into japanese, korean, russian and turkish. The remarkable rise, fall, and rise again of steve schwarzman and blackstone, by david carey and john e. Economic capital for credit risk in the trading book. However, i found that, whilst king of capital was a well researched and compiled book that was instructive as well as informative, it was perhaps a tad short of instilling a sense into the reader of the passion and cut and thrust that surely must be a involved in the wheeling and dealing of company takeovers and buyouts.
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