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Language
English
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2007. Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son.Working as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers, he displays the punctuality, discretion, and loyalty that Edwards demands. Neni temporary work at the Edwardses' summer home in the Hamptons means a brighter future-- until Jende and Neni notice cracks...
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Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
xx, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"SuperCycles delivers a cogent and compelling mixture of economics, finance, policy, and risk management that illuminates the financial crisis in revealingly original ways. It is an unprecedented, expert account of the root causes of our present economic crisis and describes what investing will be like in the future. To prepare readers for the major changes ahead, Motianey analyzes the three most likely outcomes for the modern globalized economy,...
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English
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How government and business can work together to secure our economic future.
The 2008 crisis was just the beginning; according to sought-after analyst Eric Janszen, an even bigger financial catastrophe is imminent. Inclined to disbelieve him? He predicted the last two busts months before they happened.
Our problems, according to Janszen, are rooted in the flaws of the debt-driven FIRE economy (Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)....
The 2008 crisis was just the beginning; according to sought-after analyst Eric Janszen, an even bigger financial catastrophe is imminent. Inclined to disbelieve him? He predicted the last two busts months before they happened.
Our problems, according to Janszen, are rooted in the flaws of the debt-driven FIRE economy (Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)....
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
ix, 385 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history--a scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud: millions of families were kicked out of their homes based on false evidence by mortgage companies that had no legal right to foreclose. Lisa Epstein, Michael Redman, and Lynn...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Leaderless Economy reveals why international financial cooperation is the only solution to today's global economic crisis. In this timely and important book, Peter Temin and David Vines argue that our current predicament is a catastrophe rivaled only by the Great Depression. Taking an in-depth look at the history of both, they explain what went wrong and why, and demonstrate why international leadership is needed to restore prosperity and prevent...
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Publisher
Bloomberg Press, an imprint of Wiley
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xvii, 170 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An in-depth look at the failure of Wall Street's "proven" financial models Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper into intricate and aesthetically attractive shapes. As such, it is the perfect metaphor for the Wall Street financial engineering model, which ultimately proved to be the underlying cause of the 2008 financial crisis. In Financial Origami, Brendan Moynihan describes how the Wall Street business model evolved from a method to transfer...
13) Karthik delivers
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
One summer during the Financial Crisis, fourteen-year-old Karthik Raghavan makes deliveries for his father's ailing Indian grocery, but he is secretly cast in a play about the young Leonard Bernstein.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 466 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A reevaluation of economics as a practical art form distills economics into ten succinct rules while discussing how to recognize political, economic, and social changes that affect everyday life.
Author
Publisher
Crown Business
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
[xv], 351 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers--right from the belly of the beast--arguing that this collapse need not have happened.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
Description
"From the chief economic commentator for the Financial Times, a brilliant tour d'horizon of the new global economy and its trajectory There have been many books that have sought to explain the causes and courses of the financial and economic crisis which began in 2007-8. The Shifts and the Shocks is not another detailed history of the crisis, but the most persuasive and complete account yet published of what the crisis should teach us about modern...
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This surprising narrative goes back more than twenty years to reveal, in rich, anecdotal detail, how Wall Street, the mortgage industry, and the government conspired to change the way Americans bought their homes, creating a perfect storm. The authors take us inside elusive institutions such as Goldman Sachs, AIG, and Fannie Mae, to reveal who changed the game and why.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 706 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Looks at the ways that current dramatic shifts in the domestic and global economy have their roots in the 2008 economic crisis and its aftermath, exploring novel themes in the way the crisis has played out for the past decade and will influence the future.
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