Blinder, Alan S.
Summary: An assessment of the U.S. financial crisis and its lessons explores its complex contributing factors while revealing some of its more devastating consequences, outlining potentially divisive solutions that may be necessary for recovery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 BLIKrugman, Paul R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Idea Factory Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.41 SMINordman, Doug.
Summary: "Filled with examples, checklists, websites, and a rich collection of appendices that deal with inflation, multiple income streams, and the value of a military pension, this book is essential reading for anyone contemplating retiring from the military"--From publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Impact Publications 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 NORSummary: "I.O.U.S.A. tells the story of America in debt. Faced with key deficits in budget, savings, trade and leadership, increased foreign competition and ballooning financial obligations, the federal government is critically overextended. With the economy already in shambles, 78 million baby boomers are now expecting retirement benefits from their indebted federal government. Weaving together...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC I.O.U.Arceneaux, Michael
Summary: "Ever since Oprah Winfrey told the 2007 graduating class of Howard University, 'Don't be afraid,' Michael Arceneaux has been scared to death. You should never do the opposite of what Oprah instructs you to do, but when you don't have her pocket change, how can you not be terrified of the consequences of pursuing your dreams? Michael has never shied away from discussing his struggles with debt,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ARCShachtman, Tom
Summary: "In The Founding Fortunes, historian Tom Shachtman offers an in-depth look at a time when money became as vital as guns in securing victory on the Revolutionary War's battlefields, and how some of America's wealthiest men risked their fortunes to aid the new country even as they reaped benefits from its independence. While history teaches that successful revolutions depend on participation by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 SHASchulman, Daniel
Summary: "The saga of the German-Jewish immigrants--with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Lehman and Seligman--who built the modern American finance system and shaped the world economy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sons of Wichita. Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came Henry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Director Francis Megahy offers an unflinching look at the lobbying system in Washington, D.C., and the influence of money on modern politics. By speaking with Washington, D.C. insiders, Megahy gets the inside scoop on where the money comes from and how it is used.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Libre Studio 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BESJohnson, Simon
Summary: Johnson and Kwak examine not only how Wall Street's ideology, wealth, and political power among policy makers in Washington led to the financial debacle of 2008, but also what the lessons learned portend for the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.1 JOHMorgenson, Gretchen
Summary: "Much has been written about the widening gulf between rich and poor in the United States, the pernicious effects our deepening income inequality has on the nation's well-being, and how our style of capitalism has failed to provide a living wage for so many Americans. But nothing has fully detailed the crucial role a small cohort of elite financiers has played in this dispiriting outcome over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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Summary: "In Ways and Means, journalist Roger Lowenstein reveals the unlikely story of how Abraham Lincoln used the urgency of financing the Civil War to transform a union of states into one united nation. Through a financial lens, he explores how this second American revolution, led by Lincoln, his cabinet, and his congress, changed the direction of the country"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 LOWMorris, Charles R.
Summary: We are living in the most reckless financial environment in recent history. Arcane credit derivative bets are now well into the tens of trillions. According to Charles R. Morris, the astronomical leverage at investment banks and their hedge fund and private equity clients virtually guarantees massive disruption in global markets. The crash, when it comes, will have no firebreaks. A quarter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.0415 MORZirin, Dave.
Summary: This book is a look at the big business and immoral practices behind professional sports. The fastest growing sector of today's sports audience is the alienated fan. Complaints abound: from inflated ticket prices, $6 hot dogs, and $9 beers to owners endlessly demanding new multimillion dollar stadiums funded by public tax dollars. Those sitting in the owners' boxes are increasingly placing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.06 ZIRNesvetailova, Anastasia
Summary: "The fundamental motive for financial innovation is not to make the system work better, but to avoid regulation and oversight. This is not a bug of the financial system, but a built-in feature. The president of the US is not a tax avoider because he is an especially fraudulent financier; he's a tax avoider because he is a wealthy man in a system premised on such deceit. Finance is an industry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.0973 NESSummary: In the mid-1980s, the markets were soaring with no end in sight. Then came October 19th, 1987. This CNBC Original documentary examines the biggest stock market crash in U.S. history, as told through firsthand accounts from traders, reporters who covered the story, and such power brokers as former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, former NYSE chairman John Phelan, and Leo Melamed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Solin, Daniel R.
Summary: Presents a guide to retirement financial planning, covering such topics as investing during retirement, pension, social security, withdrawals, annuities, reverse mortgages, estate planning, insurance, and healthcare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2009
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Summary: Presents the Wealth Watchers program and the principles behind it for the first time. Discover the tools you need to organize your finances, complete your monthly budget, determine your disposable income, and understand which spending patterns are knocking you off-track.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 WOOShilling, A. Gary.
Summary: "Top economist Gary Shilling shows you how to prosper in the slow-growing and deflationary times that lie ahead. While many investors fear a rapid rise in inflation, author Gary Shilling, an award-winning economic forecaster, argues that the global economy is going through a long period of de-leveraging and weak growth, which makes deflation far more likely and a far greater threat to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 SHIFraser, Steve
Summary: "A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 FRAIvry, Bob.
Summary: "Bob Ivry passionately, eloquently, and convincingly details the operatic ineptitude of America's best-compensated executives and the ways the government kowtows to what it mistakenly imagines is their competence and success. Ivry shows that the only thing that has changed since the meltdown is how too-big-to-fail banks and their fellow travelers in Washington have nudged us ever closer to an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.0973 IVRPatterson, Scott
Summary: A gripping narrative of brilliance and hubris, "The Quants" follows the rise of 1950s-era math geniuses let loose on Wall Street--who then set in motion ever widening market catastrophes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2010
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Summary: "In-depth look at economic cycles and the rise and fall of political superpowers The United States has a problem - a big problem. Due to costs associated with the massive bailout of financial institutions deemed "too big to fail," on-going armed conflicts, and a move towards socialism, another even bigger bubble is about to burst - the debt bubble. Economic Super Cycles: How to Profit from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 SKASummary: "The Dow Jones business and financial weekly."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dow Jones & Co. 1994
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