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[2020]
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English
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"Any ambitious proposal - ranging from fixing crumbling infrastructure to Medicare for all or preventing the coming climate apocalypse - inevitably sparks questions: how can we afford it? How can we pay for it? Stephanie Kelton points out how misguided those questions really are by using the bold ideas of modern monetary theory (MMT), a fundamentally different approach to using our resources to maximize our potential as a society. We've been thinking...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Our growing national debt has dropped out of the headlines recently but that doesn t mean that the problem has gone away. The national debt recently topped $17.5 trillion, and is projected to reach $27 trillion by 2024. Worse yet, if you include the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare, the U.S. real indebtedness exceeds $83 trillion. Despite these undeniable facts, politicians from both parties continue to avoid making the difficult...
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©2011
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English
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"Practically, nations have reached 'the Keynesian Endpoint': No more balance sheets are left to support either economic activity or the financial system. What happens now? Economics in an age when fiscal stimulus can't be funded and no longer works."--Resource description page.
5) Crash
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2020.
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English
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"With debt-burdened governments and businesses worldwide about to go bust, a cabal of Wall Street big shots [plots] to destroy the globe's stock exchanges: to provide that one thing that goes wrong. In 24 hours, a powerful computer worm will smash the exchanges and spark an international panic, pushing a debt-laden world into the abyss. The Wall Street gang's investment bank will be the last one standing, able to make a killing amid the ruins. But...
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Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"Ben Emons explains why government debt is no longer "risk free"--And how you can protect your money accordinglyA timely alert to the fundamental changes taking place in today's global economic and financial systems. The book discusses why there is no longer a true risk free rate, how this will impact risk premiums, financial and real asset valuations, what would be the future risk free rate and how you should invest your money as a result"--
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Pub. Date
©2014
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English
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Our government debt is rising every day. Our population is shifting as more people retire and fewer are able to find work. This title helps you learn: how reckless spending by Congress has created a debt trap; and how Obamacare will negatively affect health care costs and our economy.
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Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
"An exhaustive look at world markets and why the economy has been so unpredictable Greece isn't the only country drowning in debt. The Debt Supercycle?when the easily managed, decades-long growth of debt results in a massive sovereign debt and credit crisis?is affecting developed countries around the world, including the United States. For these countries, there are only two options, and neither is good?restructure the debt or reduce it through austerity...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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The Long Shadow of Default focuses on an important but neglected example of sovereign default between two of the wealthiest and most powerful democracies in modern history. The United Kingdom accrued considerable financial debts to the United States during and immediately after the First World War. In 1934, the British government unilaterally suspended payment on these debts. This book examines why the United Kingdom was one of the last major powers...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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A vivid and authoritative account of how the eurozone crisis was laid to rest but left a sullen Europe in its wake. This ebook expands and updates an investigation published by the Financial Times in 2014. Peter Spiegel, the newspaper's bureau chief in Brussels, takes the reader deep into the corridors of power to tell a piece of history that will go down as one of Europe's defining moments. How the Euro was Saved is required reading for anyone with...
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2012.
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English
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"This book examines the struggle between President Obama and the United States Congress to manage federal spending and tax policy for the three and one half years between 2009 and the summer of 2012. More than half the book focuses on the intense 44-day crisis in June and July 2011 when the United States came to the brink of a potentially catastrophic default on its debt."--Note to readers.
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