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Regulating Wall Street
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Viral V. Acharya |
"Experts from NYU Stern School of Business analyze new financial regulations and what they mean for the economy The NYU Stern School of Business is one of the top business schools in the world tha… |
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Bought and paid for
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Charles Gasparino |
A top reporter exposes the deep ties between the Obama administration and the big banks that are bankrupting our country. As the recession continues, President Obama has chastised the "fat cats" who … |
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Your teacher said what?!
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Joe Kernen |
Presents a scathing assessment of liberal values that have entered mainstream American culture, arguing that the media and education systems are irresponsibly teaching children negative views on capi… |
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Managing to the new regulatory reality
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Gregory P. Wilson |
"In Managing to the New Regulatory Reality, author Gregory Wilson provides important lessons for private sector management, specifically financial services firms, as well as lessons for policymakers,… |
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Back to work
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Bill Clinton |
"I wrote this book because I love my country and I'm concerned about our future," writes Bill Clinton. "As I often said when I first ran for President in 1992, America at its core is an idea, the ide… |
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Debacle
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Grover Glenn Norquist |
"During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama promised time after time "a net spending cut" to make government smaller in order to cut the deficit. But the huge increase in government spending and de… |
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End This Depression Now!
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Paul R. Krugman,Paul Krugman |
A call-to-arms from Nobel Prize?winning economist and best-selling author Paul Krugman. The Great Recession is more than four years old, and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful… |
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The healthcare imperative
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LeighAnne Olsen,Pierre L. Yong,Robert Samuel Saunders |
Summarizes workshops convened in May, July, September, and December 2009 by the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care (formerly the Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medic… |
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Dangerous convictions
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Thomas H. Allen |
"The debt-ceiling debacle of 2011 was clear evidence of the dangerous polarization of American politics. Heedless of the warnings of economists, a majority of Republicans in the House refused to allo… |
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Scandal of Money
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George Gilder |
From the Prologue...
Will conservatives win the coming economic debate? The nation depends on it. We deserve to win, after all. We have the best economic ideas, so we say, aligned with constitutio… |
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The price of politics
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Bob Woodward |
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. … |
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Simpler
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Cass R. Sunstein |
The co-author of the best-selling Nudge and regulatory advisor to President Obama draws on cutting-edge work in behavioral psychology and economics to trace behind-the-scenes, life-saving policy chan… |
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Working scared (or not at all)
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Carl E. Van Horn |
"Work Scared draws on nearly twenty-five thousand interviews with employed and unemployed Americans conducted from 1998 to 2012. These voices of American workers tell a compelling story about wrenchi… |
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The war on normal people
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Andrew Yang |
From entrepreneur Andrew Yang, the founder of Venture for America, an eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes--and a rallying cry for the urgent steps Am… |
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What then must we do?
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Gar Alperovitz |
"Never before have so many Americans been more frustrated with our economic system, more fearful that it is failing, or more open to fresh ideas about a new one. The seeds of a new economy--and, if w… |
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American insecurity
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Adam Seth Levine |
"Americans today face no shortage of threats to their financial well-being, such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling college tuition. While one might expect that these … |
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Runaway inequality
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Les Leopold |
"Runaway inequality is now America's most critical economic fact of life. In 1970, the ratio of pay between the top 100 CEOs and the average worker was 45 to 1. Today it is a shocking 829 to one! Dur… |
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Five easy theses
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James M. Stone |
America today confronts a host of urgent problems, many of them seemingly intractable, but some we are entirely capable of solving. Insurance executive and philanthropist James M. Stone presents spec… |
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The new grand strategy
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Mark G. Mykleby |
"Reimagines the American dream and provides a bipartisan plan to recapture the greatness of the past through addressing important economic, social and environmental issues by making sustainability ou… |
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Today's economic issues
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Nancy S. Lind |
"Both the Democratic and Republican parties proclaim that they have the best interests of the nation and its people at heart. Both are also adamant that they have the best proposals and positions on … |
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