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©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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2013.
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English
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"Angela Merkel was already unique when she became German chancellor: the first female leader of Europe's biggest economy, the first from former communist East Germany and the first born after World War II. Since 2010, the debt crisis that spread from Greece to the euro region and the world economy has propelled her to center-stage, making Merkel the dominant politician in the struggle to preserve Europe's economic model and its single currency. Yet...
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[2021]
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English
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"Eleanor and Edward have wealth, status, and a happy marriage. But the 1929 financial crash is looming, and they're harboring a terrible, shameful secret. How far are they willing to go to protect their charmed life-even if it means abandoning their child to a horrific fate?"--
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[2017]
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English
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An accessible and detailed overview of the risks posed by financial institutions Understanding Systemic Risk in Global Financial Markets offers an accessible yet detailed overview of the risks to financial stability posed by financial institutions designated as systemically important. The types of firms covered are primarily systemically important banks, non-banks, and financial market utilities such as central counterparties. Written by Aron Gottesman...
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©2009
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English
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Examines the underlying causes of the current mortgage crisis, from irresponsible lenders and predatory speculators to home "flippers" and less-than-truthful borrowers, and provides advice for reforms and regulations which could prevent a recurrence in the future
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©2010
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English
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Are we barreling toward another massive global financial catastrophe? How can so many bubbles form all at once? Why are so many "disconnected" markets now capable of collapsing in unison? In this remarkably readable book, award-winning Financial Times columnist John Authers takes on these critical questions and offers deeply sobering answers. Authers reveals how the first truly global super bubble was inflated--and might now be inflating again. He...
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[2015]
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English
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Reinventing Financial Regulation offers an analysis of the fundamental flaws that plague the current system of financial regulation, one built around ideas of "risk-sensitivity" and "capital adequacy." Author Avinash Persaud argues that while some sensible reforms have been introduced, a fresh approach--centered on risk capacity--is required. When the entire regime is compromised, simply slapping bandages on each new wound will do nothing to cure...
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[2016]
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English
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At exactly 4:06 p.m. on July 18, 2013, the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy. It was the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history―the Motor City had finally hit rock bottom. But what led to that fateful day, and how did the city survive the perilous months that followed? The battle to rescue this iconic city pulled together those who believed in its future―despite their differences. Help came in the form of Republican governor Rick...
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©2012
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English
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A guide to curbing monopoly power in stock markets Engaging and informative, Regulating Competition in Stock Markets skillfully analyzes the impact of the recent global financial crisis on health and happiness, and uses this opportunity to put regulatory systems in perspective. Happiness is lost because of emotional and physical health deterioration resulting from the crisis. Therefore, the authors conclude that financial crisis prevention should...
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"The rise over the last two decades of a powerful new class of billionaire financiers marks a singular shift in the American economic and political landscape. Their vast reserves of concentrated wealth have allowed a small group of big winners to write their own rules of capitalism and public policy. How did we get here? ... Kolhatkar shows how Steve Cohen became one of the richest and most influential figures in finance--and what happened when the...
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2010, ©2011
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Español
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¿Crisis? ¿Qué crisis? ¿La económica, la de los 40, la de la menopausia o andropausia, el desempleo, una separación...? En este libro se ofrecen todas las herramientas para aprender a entenderlas, a superarlas e, incluso, a beneficiarse de ellas. Valiéndose de numerosos ejemplos, historias y experiencias cargadas de sabiduría, Leila Navarro profundiza en la tipología de las crisis, las desmitifica y plantea los ejercicios de autoconocimiento...
96) Too big to fail
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks. Centering on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the film goes behind closed doors to examine the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street and Washington.
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English
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What Every American Needs to Know About the War on Free Enterprise--and Freedom Itself America: be warned. A new wave of financial reformers has infiltrated our public institutions at both the state and national levels. A growing army of self-proclaimed activists, philanthropists, and politicians has infiltrated not only the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but the FDIC, the Treasury, and other regulatory agencies. This explosive new book from...
99) The big short
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The financial meltdown from the perspective of a number of players: Michael Burry, a bizarre autistic-like stock-picking genius, and the first to realize that the market's housing boom is based on a "house of cards" sham; Mark Baum, self-loathing fictional character whose firm picks up insider trading information from a wrong number phone call; Jared Vennet, a smart-aleck broker who confirms the ominous suspicion; and Charlie Gellar and Jamie Shipley,...
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©2012
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English
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"I would sleep better if I knew that Bernanke, Geithner, Bachus, Sen. Tim Johnson, Obama and Romney all kept dog-eared copies of Kevin Mellyn's Broken Markets on their nightstands. ... Mellyn's work is a fascinating, important, and eminently good read and should inform the debate on overhauling the U.S. and global financial regulatory systems and sustainable macro fiscal and monetary policy."--Eric Grover, in his review of Broken Markets in The American...
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