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English
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In this absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history in the vein of the works of Michael Lewis and Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial executive and CNBC contributor examines the five most significant stock market crashes in the United States over the past century, revealing how they have defined the nation today.
THE PANIC OF 1907; BLACK TUESDAY (1929); BLACK MONDAY (1987); THE GREAT RECESSION (2008); THE FLASH
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English
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Michael Lewis offers a critical look at the financial collapse of 2008 and reveals how the American economy shot itself in the foot. With cynical wit and humor, Lewis exposes the bungling villains who steered the economy toward a recession and chronicles the harrowing attempts of a few hopeless heroes who foresaw this tragedy.
"Narrator Jesse Boggs has a pleasant, informative voice that conveys the book's ideas..."--AudioFile
"Boggs's rich baritone...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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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.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Steven A. Cohen is a Wall Street legend. Born into a middle class family in a decidedly upper class suburb on Long Island, he was unpopular in high school and unlucky with girls. Then he went off to Wharton, and in 1992 launched the hedge fund SAC Capital, which grew into a $15 billion empire. He cultivated an air of mystery and reclusiveness -- at one point, owned the copyright to almost every picture taken of him -- and also of extreme excess,...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xviii, 291 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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The author of the signature bestseller Liar's Poker explains how the event we were told was impossible--the free fall of the American economy--finally occurred; how the things that we wanted, like ridiculously easy money and greatly expanded home ownership, were vehicles for that crash; and how shareholder demand for profit forced investment executives to eat the forbidden fruit of toxic derivatives.
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Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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"As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us." In this book the author offers a scathing assessment of fiscal blunders in foreign lands, and details how economic repercussions are sure to be felt on American soil. Financial bubbles grew and burst, not only in the U.S. but in countries as diverse as Iceland, Germany, and Greece. Mixing humor with prescient insight, he depicts a precarious situation that demands attention. The tsunami of...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xx, 600 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a moment-by-moment account of the recent financial collapse that documents state efforts to prevent an economic disaster, offering insight into the pivotal consequences of decisions made throughout the past decade.
10) Trading bases: a story about Wall Street, gambling, and baseball (not necessarily in that order)
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Physical Desc
viii, 369 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An ex-Wall Street trader improved on "Moneyball's" famed sabermetrics to place bets that would beat the Vegas odds on Major League Baseball games--with a 41 percent return in his first year. "Trading Bases" explains how he did it.
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Publisher
Ediciones B Mexico
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1. ed.
Physical Desc
236 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Esta crisis economica tiene mal a todo mundo: el dinero no alcanza para nada y, sin importar cuantos billetes lleguen a las manos de la gente, siempre faltan. El origen de este desastre, a todas luces cotidiano para el ciudadano de a pie, esta en una serie de decisiones tomadas en los bancos y en las empresas que manejan cifras enormes; a ese ciudadano de a pie, sin embargo, le interesa mucho mas saber que va a pasar ahora con su dinero. Para eso...
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Publisher
Olive Branch Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
New updated edition, [Second edition].
Physical Desc
xxv, 262 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explains why capitalism's global crisis persists, why bank bailouts and austerity policies fail, and why deepening economic inequality now generates historic social tensions and conflicts and worsens the ongoing crisis.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
viii, 341 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A gripping account of the underdog Senate lawyer who unmasked the financial wrongdoing that led to the Crash of 1929 and forever changed the relationship between Washington and Wall Street.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 2008, America went through a terrible financial crisis, and we are still suffering the consequences. Families lost their homes, had to give up their pets, and struggled to pay for food and medicine. Businesses didn't have money to buy equipment or hire and pay workers. Millions of people lost their jobs and their life savings. More than 100,000 businesses went bankrupt ... [Former FDIC chairman Bair] describes the many ways in which a broken system...
Author
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1120L
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A historical account of the Great Recession, including the causes of the economic downturn, the role played by the Federal Reserve and other government offices, and the lingering aftermath"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xi, 464 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Jeff Madrick makes clear, the single-minded pursuit of huge personal wealth has been on the rise in the United States since the 1970s, led by a few individuals who argue that self-interest guides society more effectively than community concerns. In telling the stories of these politicians, economists, and financiers who declared a moral battle for freedom but instead gave rise to an age of greed, Madrick traces the lineage of some of our nation's...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
416 pages ; cm
Language
English
Description
"The definitive account of the crash of 1987, a cautionary tale of how the U.S. financial system nearly collapsed ... Monday, October 19, 1987, was by far the worst day in Wall Street history. The market fell 22.6 percent--almost twice as bad as the worst day of 1929--equal to a loss of nearly 5,000 points today. But Black Monday was more than just a one-day market crash; it was seven years in the making and threatened the entire U.S. financial system....
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Publisher
BenBella Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
vi, 277 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency, which sold approximately 36K copies, returns with a new book exploring the looming collapse of the techno-industrial economy, featuring profiles of individuals who have drastically altered their lives due to financial difficulties"--
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Publisher
Crown Business
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 388 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned--and our financial system is just as vulnerable as ever. Many of us know that our government failed to fix the banking system after the subprime mortgage crisis. But what few of us realize is how the misguided financial practices and philosophies that nearly toppled the global financial system have come to infiltrate...
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