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English
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"In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenson, the star business columnist of The New York Times, exposes how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect the country from financial harm were actually complicit in the actions that finally blew up the American economy. Drawing on previously untapped sources and building on original research from coauthor Joshua Rosner--who himself raised early warnings with the public and investors, and kept detailed...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Shows how we can return to our founding principles of fiscal responsibility and stewardship for future generations, offering bold ideas to control spending, save Social Security, dramatically alter Medicare, and simplify the tax code--while taking into account the Obama Administration's current efforts, which receive never-before-published assessments both complimentary and critical.
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Features five Frontline programs. "Inside the Meltdown": Investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years. "Ten Trillion and Counting": The efforts to slow down the crisis added more debt. How debt constrains and challenges the government. "Breaking the Bank": Wall Street risked billions and created massive losses, nearly breaking the banks. "The Warning": Why did the meltdown happen? "Cliffhanger": Investigation of how Washington...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 330 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A history of financial crashes in the United States offers concise explanations of little-understood principles about consumer debt that were at the core of each recession, recounting lending practices and schemes that triggered large-scale crashes and controversies.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 344 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the rise and fall of stock trader Steven Cohen and his hedge fund, SAC Capital, to offer insight into personalities behind the largest insider-trading investigation in Wall Street history while revealing how Cohen continues to make billions as a free man.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2009, at the peak of the financial crisis, AIG - the American insurance behemoth - was sinking fast. It was the peg upon which the nation hung its ire and resentment during the financial crisis: the pinnacle of Wall Street arrogance and greed. When Bob Benmosche climbed aboard as CEO, it was widely assumed that he would go down with his ship. In mere months, he turned things around, pulling AIG from the brink of financial collapse and restoring...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
viii, 406 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the origins of the Savings and Loan crisis of the 1980s and draws parallels with the financial crisis of 2008, arguing that the failure to regulate banks combined with the laxness of regulators contributed to the crises and are problems that still persist today.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
viii, 341 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A gripping account of the underdog Senate lawyer who unmasked the financial wrongdoing that led to the Crash of 1929 and forever changed the relationship between Washington and Wall Street.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xix, 257 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Since the financial meltdown of 2008, economists, journalists, and politicians have uniformly insisted that to restore the American Dream and renew economic growth, we need to save more and spend less. In his provocative new book, historian James Livingston-author of the classic Origins of the Federal Reserve System-breaks from the consensus to argue that underconsumption caused the current crisis and will prolong it. By viewing the Great Recession...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
215 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In Exorbitant Privilege, economic historian, Barry Eichengreen, traces the rise of the dollar to international prominence over the course of the 20th century. He shows that the greenback dominated internationally in the second half of the century for the same reasons and in the same way that the United States dominated the global economy. But now, America no longer towers over the global economy. It follows, Eichengreen argues, that the dollar will...
35) America's first Great Depression: economic crisis and political disorder after the Panic of 1837
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
255 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Roberts examines the financial, political, and social upheavals that occurred in the United States in the decade following the Panic of 1837, which he calls the First Great Depression. The years leading up to the panic, he says, were a time of boom marked by geographic expansion, the near elimination of the national debt, states borrowing large sums for improvement projects, and land values that appeared to be rising without end. He explains that...
36) Too big to fail
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks. Centering on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the film goes behind closed doors to examine the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street and Washington.
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
xxii, 241 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Discover how the global financial plague is poised to return, and what can be done to stop it. This is not your father's financial system. Jimmy Stewart, the trustworthy, honest banker in the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life", is dead. And so is his small-town bank, Bailey Savings & Loan. Instead, we're watching "It's a Horrible Mess" with Wall Street (aka the Vegas Strip) playing ever larger craps with our economy and our tax dollars. This book, written...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of Gilded Age con artist Ferdinand Ward, recounting how his large-scale pyramid operation and other sensational schemes triggered one of the greatest financial scandals in American history.
Author
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 439 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Panic of 1819 tells the story of the first nationwide economic collapse to strike the United States. Much more than a banking crisis or real estate bubble, the Panic was the culmination of an economic wave that rolled through the United States, forming before the War of 1812, cresting with the land and cotton boom of 1818, and crashing just as the nation confronted the crisis over slavery in Missouri. The Panic introduced Americans to the new...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 393 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The definitive account of the crash of 1987, a cautionary tale of how the U.S. financial system nearly collapsed ... Monday, October 19, 1987, was by far the worst day in Wall Street history. The market fell 22.6 percent--almost twice as bad as the worst day of 1929--equal to a loss of nearly 5,000 points today. But Black Monday was more than just a one-day market crash; it was seven years in the making and threatened the entire U.S. financial system....
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