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Banks and banking
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Connolly, Sean |
"Explains the functions and history of world banking systems and their involvement with the 2008 world economic crisis"--Provided by publisher. |
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The Moneychangers
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Upton Sinclair |
Upton Sinclair writes an historic novel concerning the Wall Street scare of 1907. He describes how several formidable capitalists organize the fall of a rival trust company. The ruin of this enterpri… |
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Financial sector development in the Pacific Rim
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East Asian Seminar in Economics (18th 2007 Singapore Management University) |
This title provides a collection of theoretical and empirical analyses of the growing capital markets in East Asia. It examines institutional factors influencing financial innovation and the conseque… |
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Development without freedom
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Songok Han Thornton |
"Thanks to the inroads made by the International Monetary Fund and the 'war on terror, ' America has lost much of the soft power it enjoyed in Asia during the early 1990s. The winners, by default, ar… |
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Lords of finance
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Liaquat Ahamed |
With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as head… |
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The foreclosure of America
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Adam Michaelson |
"When business school classes study this collapse in hindsight many years from now..., they will certainly pore through reams of rich data, charts, and graphs, and seek out various flaws in the prese… |
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The bull inside the bear
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Robert Stein |
The meltdown in the credit markets, the decline in housing prices, and the turmoil in the stock market has rocked the world of the everyday investor. The idea that home ownership and the stock market… |
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Bailout nation
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Barry Ritholtz |
An engaging look at what led to the financial turmoil we now find ourselves in Bailout Nation offers one of the clearest looks at the financial lenders, regulators, and politicians responsible for t… |
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The buyout of America
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Josh Kosman |
An authoritative expose of the mysterious and potentially dangerous world of private equityFew people realize that the top private equity firms, such as Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, and Kohlberg … |
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Dot.con
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John Cassidy |
Presents a history of the Internet stock market boom and inevitable crash, focusing on the role played by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, Wall Street analysts, journalists, and policy makers. |
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A colossal failure of common sense
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Lawrence G. McDonald |
One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy… |
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In Fed we trust
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David Wessel |
Fall of the economy, and how we could have saved it. |
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Meltdown Iceland
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Roger Boyes |
The inside story of the bankrupting of Iceland. It is a truism that when America sneezes, Europe catches a cold. The sub-prime mortgage crisis, which began in America in 2007, unleashed a veritable e… |
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Empire of Debt
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Addison Wiggin,William Bonner |
In Empire of Debt, maverick financial writers Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin provide you with the first in-depth look at how the American character has shifted to accommodate its new imperial role; h… |
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The great reset
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Richard Florida |
We tend to view prolonged economic downturns, such as the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Long Depression of the late nineteenth century, in terms of the crisis and pain they cause. But history… |
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The zeroes
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Randall Lane |
An insider's memoir of the greed, excess, and demise of the high- flying hedge fund and trader lifestyle Magazine entrepreneur Randall Lane had a prime seat at Wall Street's biggest greed fest. The Z… |
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Innovate!
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Thomas A. Meyer |
"Learn the lessons of how great companies began in the worst economic times Eli Lilly. IBM. Medtronic, Procter & Gamble. Hewlett-Packard and Marvel Entertainment. All great companies and all made the… |
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The big short
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Michael Lewis |
The #1 *New York Times* bestseller: a brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff.
When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public… |
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The Fall of the House of Credit
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Alistair Milne |
How was it possible for problems in one relatively small sector in the global financial system - the American sub-prime mortgage market - to lead to the most serious economic crisis in living memory?… |
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The Rise and Fall of the US Mortgage and Credit Markets
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James Barth |
The mortgage meltdown: what went wrong and how do we fix it? Owning a home can bestow a sense of security and independence. But today, in a cruel twist, many Americans now regard their homes as a so… |
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