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Bank failures United States Banks and banking, Central United States Bernanke, Ben Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) Business cycles United States Finance United States Financial crises United States Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 Monetary policy United States United States Economic policy 2009-Ivry, 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 IVRSchiff, Peter D.
Summary: An update of the author's financial survival guide takes into account the dramatic economic shifts that are reshaping America and provides insights and information to help survive the current economic downturn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 2009
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Summary: Describes how the granting of subprime mortgages and the packaging of these loans into investment vehicles sold around the world played a significant role in the current worldwide financial crisis, and analyzes new policies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.72 SOWBlinder, 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 BLIPatterson, Scott
Summary: "There's no doubt that our world has gotten more extreme. Pandemics, climate change, superpower rivalries, cyberattacks, political radicalization--virtually, everywhere we look there is mayhem bearing down on us, putting trillions of assets at risk. And at least two factions have formed around how to respond. In Chaos Kings, Scott Patterson depicts how one faction, led by Nassim Nicholas Taleb,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.5 PATKosman, Josh.
Summary: An authoritative expose of the mysterious and potentially dangerous world of private equity Few people realize that the top private equity firms, such as Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, have become the nation's largest employers through the businesses they own. Using leveraged buyouts that load their acquired companies with loans, private equity firms have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 338.5 KOSBonner, William
Summary: Presents contrarian economic & business theories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 BONOvertveldt, Johan van.
Summary: "An examination of the challenges facing Fed chair Ben Bernanke as he addresses the problems affecting the U.S. economy inherited from his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, informed by a historical look at how other central bankers have dealt with similar crises"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Agate 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.11 OVEBernanke, Ben.
Summary: In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Reserve and the 2008 financial crisis, as part of a course at George Washington University on the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy. He revealed important background and insights into the central bank's crucial actions during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 BERPosner, Richard A.
Summary: From the Publisher: The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 is the most alarming of our lifetime because of the warp-speed at which it is occurring. How could it have happened, especially after all that we've learned from the Great Depression? Why wasn't it anticipated so that remedial steps could be taken to avoid or mitigate it? What can be done to reverse a slide into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 POSWessel, David.
Summary: In this penetrating look inside the most powerful economic institution in the world, the Federal Reserve, David Wessel illuminates its opaque and undemocratic inner workings, while revealing how its chairman Ben Bernanke led the desperate effort to prevent the world's financial engine from grinding to a halt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 353Stiglitz, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 STIBerwick, Jeff
Summary: "The American Empire is finished and will soon become another cautionary tale, tossed upon the trash heap of history, and destroyed by the very same societal issues that plagued the many former empires that share similar fates. It didn't have to end this way, but when the most devious and ruthless members of a society are tasked with running the system, the outcome can hardly be in dispute. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeff Berwick & Charlie Robinson 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 BERMcDonald, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.62 MCDVarelas, Christopher P.
Summary: From a veteran of the trade, a provocative and entertaining voyage into the turbulent heart of modern money that sheds new light on the rise of our threatening and complicated financial system, how money became our adversary, and why finding a new course is crucial to a healthy society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.0973 VARDillian, Jared.
Summary: A former trader recounts the final years of Lehman Brothers, discussing the outrageous personalities of his co-workers, his own battles with mental illness, and the company's activities during the economic collapse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.62 DILWhitney, Meredith.
Summary: Reveals how cities and states are suffering from a more dramatic economic decline than most people realize, predicting a devastating imminent municipal crisis while sharing recommendations for preventing a broader catastrophe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 WHIJohnson, 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 JOHSummary: The Queen of Versailles is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis. The film follows two unique characters, whose rags-to-riches-to-rags success stories reveal the innate virtues and flaws of the American Dream.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC QUECohan, William D.
Summary: William D. Cohan's superb and shocking narrative chronicles the fall of Bear Stearns and the end of the Second Gilded Age on Wall Street, explaining how a combination of risky bets, corporate political infighting, lax government regulations and truly bad decision-making wrought havoc on the world financial system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 332.660973 CohMorris, 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 MORScheer, Robert.
Summary: Robert Scheer, who has been covering power and corruption for two decades as a reporter and columnist for the "Los Angeles Times" and as a founder of "Truthdig", argues that there is nothing murky or even surprising about the banking meltdown of 2008. He shows that this fiasco could have been anticipated and that there are culprits responsible that should be named and who continue to wield...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2010