Frequently Asked Questions

• Why did Lehman Brothers collapse?

  Disastrous investments in mortgage-backed securities and the American 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:housing-market debacle brought the nation’s fourth-largest investm🌟ent bank to bankruptcy in 2008. Learn how it happened.

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• How is Tesla’s business model different?

  Based on direct sales and service, not franchised dealerships, Tesla has paid particular attention to expanding its network of charging stations, the key to growing the electric vehicle🎃 business. And it’s expanding into home energy-storage services.

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• How are investment banks structured?

  The typical American investment-banking hier⛄archy is investment analyst, associate, vice president, senior vice president, and managing director.

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• Why did Google become Alphabet?

  Establishing Alphabet as a parent company, allowed Google to expand outside of internet search and advertising to acquire companies in areas including robotics, life sciences, healthcare, and anti-aging—as well as better protect itself against 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:antitrust violations and account for different income streams.

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• What are the most famous monopolies?

  The three most famous early monopolies were Andrew Carnegie’s Steel Company (now U.S. Steel), 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company, and the American Tobacco Company. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) was forced to break up in 19🧔82. The diamond merchant De Beers group is a more recent near-monopoly.

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• Who is winning—Coke or Pepsi?

  Coca-Cola has been the market leader ♉since 2004♋. Pepsi is number two, followed by Dr. Pepper-Snapple.

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