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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Seventh edition.
Language
English
Description
Since its introduction in 1978, this book has charted and followed the volatile world of financial markets. Charles Kindleberger's panoramic history revealed how financial crises follow a pattern. Events of recent years and the current Eurozone continue to dominate policy and headline debates around the globe. In this updated and expanded seventh edition, Robert Z. Aliber probes the most recent calamities and changes in the markets, including the...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"J IS FOR JUNK ECONOMICS is an A-to-Z guide that explains how the world economy really works - and who the winners and losers are. The book includes more than 400 concise and acerbic entries, several essays, and a full topic index. Expanding on KILLING THE HOST: HOW FINANCIAL PARASITES AND DEBT DESTROY THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, Prof. Hudson's new book covers contemporary terms that are misleading or poorly understood as well as many important concepts that...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
As the United States teeters on the brink of a severe economic downturn, many citizens have begun looking back at the Great Depression and wondering if it's about to happen again. An economic downturn is not necessarily a depression. When students hear the word "depression," they immediately conjure images of breadlines, migrant workers, dust bowls, and downtrodden individuals. The mechanisms of a depression, its causes and effects, and how it develops...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A former economic advisor to the White House and Treasury Department, Dr. Nouriel Roubini explains why the world's economy got into its current financial mess and how to fix it. In 2005, Roubini warned that the U.S. housing bubble was set to explode and bring global financial systems to a screeching halt. With his concerns now reality, he contends that no amount of stimulus spending can end the crisis until the massive imbalances at its heart are...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Applied Austrian economics doesn't get better than this. Murray N. Rothbard's America's Great Depression is a staple of modern economic literature and crucial for understanding a pivotal event in American and world history. The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle, which was generated by government intervention in the economy. Had the book appeared in the 1940s, it might...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
We have entered into an entirely new era, an age of increasingly frequent and intense periods of turbulence in the global economy. Unlike past recessions, today's crises have precipitated a need for businesses to develop a new mindset, one that takes into account intermittent periods of disturbance, allowing them to thrive while under the constant threat of chaos. Chaotics presents a revolutionary set of guidelines designed to help businesses: •...
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English
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"Winner of the 2011 Gold Medal Arthur Ross Book Award, Council on Foreign Relations" "Winner of the 2010 Paul A. Samuelson Award, TIAA-CREF" "One of USA Today's "Year's Best Business Books To Make Sense of Financial Crisis"" "Listed on Bloomberg.com by James Pressley as one of "our favorite financial-crisis books this year"" "Shortlisted for the 2010 Spear's Book of the Year Award in Financial History" "Finalist for the 2011 Estoril Global Issues...
13) What to do when the bubble pops: personal and business strategies for the coming economic winter
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
THE DOWNTURN IS HERE! Harry Dent has been predicting for some time that we are about to enter a prolonged downturn, one that will be looked at by historians as a classic economic depression, due to demographic factors: one of the largest generations in history - the baby boomers - are leaving the workplace, either due to planned retirement or involuntarily (due to layoffs or not being able to find work), which will have a profound impact on all sectors...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Third edition.
Language
English
Description
"A weaker dollar buys less in foreign goods. This increases the price of imports, contributing to inflation. As the dollar weakens, investors in the benchmark 10-year Treasury and other bonds sell their dollar-denominated holdings. Contracts for oil and other commodities are usually denominated in dollars. As a result, historically, there has been an inverse relationship between the value of the dollar and commodities prices. Essentially, as the value...
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
William Bonner and Addison Wiggin deliver their extremely successful financial newsletter, Daily Reckoning, to more than half a million readers. Now this pair of maverick investment writers shows that the key to surviving a soft depression is not collecting and analyzing current market data. Instead, if Americans want to plow through their financial woes and put some muscle back in their portfolios, they must look to the follies of the past. With...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Kenneth A. Posner spent close to two decades as a Wall Street analyst, tracking the so-called "specialty finance" sector, which included controversial companies such as Countrywide, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, CIT, and MasterCard - many of which were caught in the subprime mortgage and capital markets crisis of 2007. While extreme volatility is nothing new in finance, the recent downturn caught many off guard, indicating that the traditional approach...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This book succeeds in making complicated, abstract economic theories, practices, and processes not only accessible and comprehensible, but also highly relevant to young readers' lives. It also comes at a crucial moment in American history, as the nation enters a period of likely severe and prolonged recession. Your readers will learn exactly what recession is, how to cope with it, and how it can be controlled or moderated. This excellent information...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Hard Times presents a comprehensive account of economic depressions in America, from colonial times to the "great recession" that began in 2008. Written in crisp prose for a general audience, the book synthesizes a narrative account-presenting the known facts about how particular depressions started, the effects upon people in different walks of life, the policy debates about what (if anything) to do in order to ameliorate the situation, and how these...
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