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Language
English
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor.
Author
Publisher
G.P.O
Pub. Date
1950-
Edition
[Dept. edition].
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Represents the annual report of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Appendix B contains historical tables (from 1959 or earlier) on aspects of income (national, personal, and corporate), production, prices, employment, investment, taxes and transfers, and money and finance.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The New York Times bestselling business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America's most mysterious institutions-the Federal Reserve-to show how its policies over the past ten years have accelerated income inequality and put our country's economic stability at risk"--
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Language
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
Center for Economic and Policy Research
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
161 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book describes some of the key areas in which progressives can focus their efforts to restructure markets so that more income flows to the bulk of the working population rather than just a small elite"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 193 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Donald Trump outlines how a crippled America could be restored to greatness. The book explores Trump's view on key issues including the economy, big CEO salaries and taxes, healthcare, education, national security, and social issues. Of particular interest is his vision for complete immigration reform, beginning with securing the borders and putting American workers first.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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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
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
To combat the "vampires" of our society and to isolate the systematic ways in which our once productive industries and our government have been breached, Ratigan provides readers with a set of values that together form the answer for how each of us can not only understand what has gone wrong--but join together to make it right.
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Language
English
Description
The U.S. senator and former presidential candidate offers a progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and presents a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like.
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Language
English
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“Jim Marrs can’t be ignored. Few in this country shout about The Truth louder than he.”
—Dallas Observer
In The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy, Jim Marrs, the New York Times bestselling author of Rule by Secrecy and The Rise of The Fourth Reich, offers a terrifying proposition: that the current economic collapse has been engineered by a tyrannous government and multinational
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
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"In 21st Century Monetary Policy, Ben S. Bernanke--former chair of the Federal Reserve and one of the world's leading economists--explains the Fed's evolution and speculates on its future. Taking a fresh look at the bank's policymaking over the past seventy years, including his own time as chair, Bernanke shows how changes in the economy have driven the Fed's innovations. He also lays out new challenges confronting the Fed, including the return of...
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