Alan Greenspan
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Greenspan has made a science of understanding how the U.S. economy works, and now he distills what he has learned in a master reckoning with the decisive drivers of the US economy over the course of its history. In partnership with Wooldridge, he unfolds a tale involving titanic figures, triumphant breakthroughs ... and terrible moral failings. At heart, the authors argue, America's genius has been its unique tolerance for the effects of creative...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn’t experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of the world with it. Yet the most remarkable thing that happened to the economy after 9/11 was . . . nothing. We are truly living in a new world, he reflected, not for the first time nor for...
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Explains how the financial crisis has challenged fundamental assumptions about leading economic models, drawing on twenty-first-century technologies and the expertise of behavioral economists to outline new forecasting practices.
Author
Language
English
Description
An inspiring film about a divided America gorging on hate. A remarkable cast-from the head of Black Lives Matter-NY to Secretaries of State and Defense-takes an expedition into how to halt today's epidemic of contempt and save America's soul. A film of resilience, reform, empathy and hope coming in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic and George Floyd riots, the cast confronts what it means to be an American at a time when things we thought could...