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The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
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 century of free-market zealotry that extolled asset stripping, abusive lending, and hedge fund secrecy will come crashing down with it. The Trillion Dollar Meltdown explains how we got here, and what is about to happen. After the crash our priorities will be quite different. But things are likely to get worse before they better. Whether you are an active investor, a homeowner, or a contributor to your 401(k) plan, The Trillion Dollar Meltdown will be indispensable to understanding the gross excess that has put the world economy on the brink—and what the new landscape will look like. .
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Subprime Meltdown: From U.S. Liquidity Crisis to Global Recession
Why are there so many foreclosures? Why would banks, the pillars of fiscal responsibility and risk aversion, lend money to people who couldn't afford to repay their loans? How did Wall Street manage to hide the risk and sell the subprime mortgages? How did the subprime mortgage business unravel and evolve into a worldwide liquidity crisis? What are the frauds and scams, how do they work and what should you be aware of? What is the forecast for the future and what conclusions can be drawn? You will find the answers to all of these questions and more in this book. It is an easy-to-understand and easy-to-read collection of analyses, stories and experiences about the real estate business, the mortgage business and the subprime market in particular..
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The Return of Depression Economics
Surely the Great Depression could never happen again. Or could it? Today, the tragedy of the Great Depression looks gratuitous and unnecessary: Our economists and policy makers simply have gained too much experience since then. It could never happen again. Or could it? Over the course of the last two years, six Asian economies have experienced an economic slump that bears an eerie resemblance to the Great Depression. Russia defaulted on its debt in 1998--an event that, halfway around the world, drove Brazilian interest rates through the roof and terrified the U.S. bond market. Some of the brightest financiers in the world, working for the Long-Term Capital Corporation, thought they had the market licked only to find themselves in a jam that had all the makings of the overleveraged positions that caused the 1929 stock market crash. Paul Krugman, one of the world's top economists, recounts these events and more: He points out that they raise significant questions for which policy makers may not have answers. This paperback edition features a brand-new preface by Krugman on the financial realities of the past year..
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Recession Storming: Thriving in Downturns through Superior Marketing, Pricing and Product Strategies
No times are more difficult for the survival of a company than recessions They are defining moments for managers Yet there are few books on recession strategy out there. This book aims to fill that gap. This book is different. Recession-proofing articles talk about keeping your head down and focusing on costs and cashflow. We say you cannot cut your way to greatness: this is a book for managers who have a handle on their costs and ask what now? If you want to thrive you need to storm through recessions and downturns. That is why the book is called Recession Storming. Recession Storming covers 5 main areas: understanding the business environment, retaining existing customers, maintaining margins through pricing, moving ahead with new product-offerings, and winning new customers. There are over 100 strategies in this book, pulled from over eighty companies from some 5 economic recessions. Just one idea will repay the purchase price of the book many times over..
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Don't Get Caught With Your Skirt Down: A Practical Girl's Recession Guide
The U.S. economy is crashing Don't Get Caught With Your Skirt Down" offers fearless, funny, and practical solutions to survive and even profit from the recession, no matter how bad it gets. Get ready to ditch fear and recession-proof yourself! This is the essential women's guide for surviving and thriving in this recession. In this book you'll learn . . . Where the economy is headed and what that means for you; How to protect yourself from the top three causes of bankruptcy; How to create a backup income; Essential skills to help you thrive; How to deal with your big fat mortgage; How to keep your job (or your husband's); How to haggle like a pro; How to cut your food bill in half; How to have no car payment; How to get the stuff you need, cheap; The advantages of self- sufficiency; How to look gorgeous without spending a fortune; and where to stuff your money so the recession won't vaporize it ..
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The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons from Japan's Great Recession
Japan's "Great Recession" lasted from approximately 1992 - 2007 and finally provided the economics profession with the necessary background to understand what actually happened during the US recession of the 1930s. The discoveries made, however, are so far-reaching that a large portion of economics literature will have to be modified to accommodate another half to the macro economic spectrum of possibilities that conventional theorists have overlooked. In particular, Japan's Great Recession showed that when faced with a massive fall in asset prices, companies typically jettison the conventional goal of profit maximization and move to minimize debt in order to restore their credit ratings. This shift in corporate priority, however, has huge theoretical as well as practical implications and opens up a whole new field of study. For example, the new insight can explain fully the precise mechanism of prolonged depression and liquidity trap which conventional economics - based on corporate profit maximization - has so far failed to offer as a convincing explanation. The author developed the idea of yin and yang business cycles where the conventional world of profit maximization is the yang and the world of balance sheet recession, where companies are minimizing debt, is the yin. Once so divided, many varied theories developed in macro economics since the 1930s can be nicely categorized into a single comprehensive theory, i.e., the Holy Grail of macro economics The policy implication of this new discovery is immense in that the conventional aversion to fiscal policy in favor of monetary policy will have to be completely reversed when the economy is in the yin phase. The theoretical implications are also immense in the sense that the economics profession will no longer have to rely so much on various rigidities to explain recessions that have become the standard practice within the so-called New Keynesian economics of the last twenty years..
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Grow Your Money!: 101 Easy Tips to Plan, Save, and Invest
Money manager Jonathan D. Pond has taught countless Americans in his series of bestselling books and PBS specials how to do the seemingly impossible: grow their money while still living the life they'd like to have. Whether planning for children, trying to afford the ones you've already got, buying a house, investing for retirement, or just learning not to live from paycheck to paycheck, Jonathan's energetic, warm, and no-nonsense financial advice has made him a regular on The Today Show and CNN as well as on PBS. In Grow Your Money, Jonathan unpacks the best of his decades of financial advice to create a cornerstone compendium. Includes: - Using debt to your advantage
- Why collecting Social Security early is (usually) a mistake
- Dual-income homes: does that second paycheck help as much as you think?
- Getting rich slowly
- Give Uncle Sam his due at tax time—but not one penny more
Whether you're working on your third million—or your third year out of college—take advantage of this all-time best collection of financial tools and tips from one of America's most-loved money managers and advisers. .
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One Foot Out the Door: How to Combat the Psychological Recession That's Alienating Employees and Hurting American Business
As many as two-thirds of our employees are either actively looking for new jobs or merely going through the motions at their current jobs. Fearful and feeling vulnerable after years of watching friends get laid off, they expect the worst to happen, and they see no reason to give it their all. This phenomenon, identified by renowned author Judith M. Bardwick as "the psychological recession," can have a devastating effect on a company’s financial health. Based on extensive research showing how costly bad management really is, this eye-opening book offers concrete prescriptions for combating alarming trends such as high turnover, low productivity, and lackluster performance, including techniques for: * strengthening the bonds of trust and respect between managers and employees * customizing working conditions and rewards for individual employees * hiring for the "best fit" between the organization’s core culture and the personal qualities and priorities of the individual Using hard numbers and current studies that prove the direct connection between a company’s financial performance and its employees’ commitment, this book is a wake-up call to organizations desperately needing to restore the broken spirits at the heart of their companies, and enhance their bottom lines..
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The End Of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was a turning point in the role of the federal government and in the expectations of American citizens. Now, Alan Brinkley, whose Voices of Protest won the American Book Award for History, shows how New Deal liberalism was transformed into a new beast during and after World War II--and why it is faring so poorly in the 1990s..
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