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1) Inside job
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Provided is an analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research, and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation,...
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
LID
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Primera edición: Septiembre 2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.
Language
Español
Description
Cuando un economista avisa de un desajuste, los políticos actúan de tres formas. Si están en la oposición, jalean la flaqueza en su propio provecho con la intención de asaltar el poder. Si están en el poder, ignoran la advertencia y miran hacia otro lado, buscando el apoyo de otros economistas que minimicen las previsiones menos favorables. Si son políticos responsables... entonces no ocupan cargos de responsabilidad y poco pueden hacer....
Author
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,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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)....
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Investigates the shattering impact the recent global financial meltdown had on how economists think. Why did so few of the brightest minds in finance not only fail to predict the crash but also argue that it was impossible? With insights from experts and scientific experiments that highlight the hidden money drives in us all, explore a seismic shift in our efforts to understand the marketplace.
Author
Publisher
Prentice Hall
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (195 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Ever since the ancient Greeks, financial innovation has enabled more people to purchase homes. Today is no different: in fact, responsible financial innovation is now the best tool available for "rebooting" crippled housing markets, improving their efficiency, and making housing more accessible to millions. In Fixing the Housing Market , three leading experts explain how, covering everything decision-makers should know about today's housing and financial...
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...
17) Collapse
Publisher
Film Buff
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Meet Michael Ruppert, a different kind of American. A former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter, he predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness, at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. Director Chris Smith has shown an affinity for outsiders in films like American Movie and The Yes Men.
Author
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...
Author
Publisher
Financial Times Prentice Hall
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume)
Language
English
Description
The decade which began in July 1997 saw a global financial system that generated more wealth for more people for a much longer period of time than any other in financial history. But ten years later, in a seemingly sudden move, there was a flight of capital and a collapse of the global banking system. What went wrong? Did anyone see it coming? What lessons can we learn from this? And is it really all that bad? Fooled Again is not a history book, but...
Author
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...
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