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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A direct, incisive guide for consumers to know how to protect and handle their money in the face of a financial crisis"--
"A direct, incisive guide for consumers to know how to protect and handle their money in the face of a financial crisis There are always going to be unexpected financial crises in our lives. Whether we're facing an economic recession, a pandemic, a bear market, or energy worries, we have to immediately know what to do with our...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2012, �2012
Language
English
Description
"Most individuals and institutions hold the preponderance of their investments in common stocks, corporate bonds, mutual funds, index funds, muni bonds, money markets, bank CDs, and Treasury securities. But these conventional investments will not do well in a world dominated by corrupt, debt-laden governments and thieving bankers, brokers and middlemen. Finance guru John R. Talbott, prescient predictor of the financial crisis and the housing market...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the concept of "disaster capitalism" offers an exposé of how the global "free market" has exploited crises, violence, and shock over the past three decades to promote radical privatization that benefits large corporations and powerfulinterest groups.
Author
Publisher
John Wiley
Pub. Date
2009, c2010
Language
English
Description
"A practical guide to preparing for the next phase of the financial meltdownFrom the authors who were the first to predict Phase I of our current economic downturn-in their landmark 2006 book, America's Bubble Economy-comes their insightful sequel discussing their predictions for the next phase of the Bubble Economy.It may seem like the worst has come and gone, but it hasn't. With their proven track record of accurate predictions-which most financial...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Drawing on a mix of economic history, network science, and sociology, "Currency Wars" provides a rich understanding of the increasing threats to U.S. national security, from dollar devaluation to collapse in the European periphery, failed states in Africa, Chinese neomercantilism, Russian adventurism, and the current scramble for gold.
Author
Language
English
Description
A major Debt Jubilee is coming to America. The crowds will cheer. Politicians will promise new and better prosperity. But what will actually happen is a national nightmare. The wealthy will make a fortune. But for many, a Debt Jubilee will mean huge losses. All your savings could be wiped out. Tens of millions of Americans could lose trillions of dollars. You don't have to be one them....
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Examines financial crises of the past and discusses similarities between these events and the current crisis, presenting and comparing historical patterns in bank failures, inflation, debt, currency, housing, employment, and government spending.
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
An analysis of five financial upheavals in recent history includes coverage of the 1987 stock market crash, the Internet bubble, and the sub-prime mortgage crisis, in a report that reveals how public knowledge differed from what was actually taking place.
Author
Language
English
Description
¿Qué pueden tener en común un modesto inspector de policía, una exuberante pastelera, un cónsul de Estados Unidos, un carterista de medio pelo, Charlie Lucky Luciano, un médico metido a caficultor, una poderosa tríada de Shangái y la madame de un burdel de lujo? Sencillo: el insólito suceso que va a enlazar inesperadamente sus vidas y que pondrá al descubierto una intrincada conspiración cuyas
15) Frozen assets
Author
Series
Gunnhildur Gisladottir mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Officer Gunnhildur investigates the discovery of a body in an Icelandic fishing village and uncovers a web of political intrigue and corruption.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents an analysis of the economic crisis of 2009, citing such factors as expanded home ownership and risky derivative elections in the face of increasing shareholder demands and discussing the role of responsible parties in the government, financial, and private sectors.
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