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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History Financial crises Financial crises United States Financial crises United States History 21st century Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 International finance Macroeconomics United States Economic conditions 2001-2009 United States Economic policy 2001-2009 United States Economic policy 2009-Summary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INSSummary: "Frontline investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. [The film] chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, the Lehman Brothers' collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG and the $700 billion bailout. The film examines what Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke didn't see, couldn't...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSTooze, J. Adam
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332 TOODolezalek, Holly.
Summary: Examines an important historic event -- the modern global financial crisis. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the impact of the failing housing market and the credit crisis in the United States, the US government bailouts of banks, automakers, and other businesses, issues around financial regulation and the US Federal Reserve, the spread of financial problems to Europe, Japan, and China,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 330.9 DOLLewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Summary: The author examines the causes of the U.S. market crash of 2008 and its relation to overpriced real estate, bad mortgages, shareholder demand for excessive profits, and the growth of toxic derivatives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2010
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Money LewisCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 LEWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 330.973 LEWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 330.973 LEWCorsi, Jerome R.
Summary: Explains the globalists' plan to put America on the chopping block and offers constructive solutions for resisting the global New Deal, reversing our dependence on foreign oil, and strengthening our middle class.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 CORWolf, Martin
Summary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339 WOLEichengreen, Barry J.
Summary: "There have been two global financial crises in the past century: the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession that began in 2008. Both featured loose credit, precarious real estate and stock market bubbles, suspicious banking practices, an inflexible monetary system, and global imbalances; both had devastating economic consequences. In both cases, people in the prosperous decade...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.9 EICStiglitz, Joseph E.
Summary: In this forthright and incisive book, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz explains how America exported bad economics, bad policies, and bad behavior to the rest of the world, only to cobble together a haphazard and ineffective response when the markets finally seized up. Stiglitz then outlines a way to restore the balance between markets and government, address the inequalities of the global...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 STIBlinder, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 BLIFlorida, Richard L.
Summary: "From the author of the bestseller The Rise of the Creative Class, a book that frames the economic meltdown of 2008-09 not as a crisis but as an opportunity to "reset," and, in doing so, paints a fascinating picture of what our economy, society, and geography will look like--of how we will work and live--in the future"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 FLOLewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Summary: Presents the author's darkly humorous investigation of the effects of the 2008 financial bubble on other countries before taking aim at greedy debtors in California and Washington, D.C.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 330.9 LEWMcDonald, Lawrence G.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Pub. 2009
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: 332.6 MCDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.62 MCDMcLean, Bethany.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio Penguin 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 MCLIrwin, Neil.
Summary: Documents the inside story of the world's most powerful central bankers at a pivotal May 2010 meeting in Basel, Switzerland, to explore the efforts of European Central Bank's Jean-Claude Trichet, the Bank of England's Mervyn King and the Federal Reserve's Ben Bernanke in safeguarding the global economy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.11 IRWSummary: Acclaimed director Steve James tells the saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Abacus becomes the only bank prosecuted after the 2008 financial crisis. The indictment and subsequent trial forces the Sung family to defend themselves, and their bank's legacy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ABARoose, Kevin.
Summary: A business columnist at "New York" magazine explores the secret lives of college graduates working on Wall Street in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.64 ROOGalbraith, James K.
Summary: "The years since the Great Crisis of 2008 have seen slow growth, high unemployment, falling home values, chronic deficits, a deepening disaster in Europe--and a stale argument between two false solutions, "austerity" on one side and "stimulus" on the other. Both sides and practically all analyses of the crisis so far take for granted that the economic growth from the early 1950s until...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339 GALSummary: Mind Over Money 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, NOVA explores how human psychology and finance...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Bernanke, Ben
Summary: "From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a magnificent big-picture synthesis--from why it happened to where we are now In 2018, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, and Hank Paulson came together to reflect on the lessons of the 2008 financial crisis ten years on. Recognizing that, as Ben put it, "the enemy is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.9 BERCunningham, Darryl.
Summary: Tracing the emergence of Ayn Rand’s philosophy of objectivism in the 1940s to her present-day influence, Darryl Cunningham’s latest work of graphic-nonfiction investigation leads readers to the heart of the global financial crisis of 2008. Cunningham uses Rand’s biography to illuminate the policies that led to the economic crash in the U.S. and in Europe, and how her philosophy continues to a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 174.4 CUNGoldstein, Amy
Summary: "A Washington Post reporter's intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors' assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin—Paul Ryan's hometown—and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class."--Amazon.com
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331 GOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 331 GOLSummary: All of the measures by the feds to stem the tide in the financial meltdown have added hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S. national debt. This episode of Frontline reports on how this debt constrains and challenges the Obama administration and on the growing chorus that, without fiscal reform, the U.S. government may face a debt crisis of its own in years to come that would make the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Adams, James
Summary: Laid off from the front lines of a hedge fund in the midst of the financial crisis, Jimmy Adams decides to get an "honest job" for a change. Before he knows what hit him, he finds himself waiting on tables of barflies at a 24-hour diner. Staffed by a motley crew of cooks and servers, the restaurant provides a slew of comedic experiences as the author waits on man-hungry female patrons, a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016