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Too Big To Fail : The Inside Story Of How Wall Street And Washington Fought To Save The Financial System From Crisis –and Themselves

How Markets Fail : The Logic Of Economic Calamities

Patriots : A Novel Of Survival In The Coming Collapse

In Fed We Trust : Ben Bernanke’s War On The Great Panic

Threshold : The Crisis Of Western Culture

A Failure Of Capitalism : The Crisis Of ‘08 And The Descent Into Depression

  • A Failure Of Capitalism : The Crisis Of '08 And The  Descent Into Depression
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    Richard A. Posner
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    Book, Harvard University Press, 2009
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    Posner analyzes the two basic remedial approaches to the crisis, which correspond to the two theories of the cause of the Great Depression: the monetarist?that the Federal Reserve Board allowed the money supply to shrink, thus failing to prevent a disastrous deflation?and the Keynesian?that the depression was the product of a credit binge in the 1920?s, a stock-market crash, and the ensuing downward spiral in economic activity. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     BROWSING (MAIN)  HB3722 .P67 2009  DUE 11-23-09

Bernanke’s Test : Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, And The Drama Of The Central Banker

House Of Cards : A Tale Of Hubris And Wretched Excess On Wall Street

  • House Of Cards : A Tale Of Hubris And Wretched Excess On  Wall Street
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    William D. Cohan
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    Book, 1st ed, Doubleday, 2009
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    On March 5, 2008, at 10:15 A.M., a hedge fund manager in Florida wrote a post on his investing advice Web site that included a startling statement about Bear Stearns & Co., the nation?s fifth-largest investment bank: ?In my book, they are insolvent.? Cohan?s minute-by-minute account of those ten days in March makes for breathless reading, as the bankers at Bear Stearns struggled to contain the cascading series of events that would doom the firm, and as Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, New York Federal Reserve Bank President Tim Geithner, and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke began to realize the dire consequences for the world economy should the company go bankrupt. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     BROWSING (MAIN)  HG4930.5 .C64 2009  AVAILABLE

The Trillion Dollar Meltdown : Easy Money, High Rollers, And The Great Credit Crash

  • The Trillion Dollar Meltdown : Easy Money, High Rollers,  And The Great Credit Crash
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    Charles R. Morris
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    Book, 1st ed, PublicAffairs, 2008
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    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. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     BROWSING (MAIN)  HG4910 .M667 2008  AVAILABLE

The World Is Curved : Hidden Dangers To The Global Economy

  • The World Is Curved : Hidden Dangers To The Global  Economy
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    David M. Smick
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    Book, Portfolio, 2008
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    The World Is Curved picks up where Thomas Friedman?s The World Is Flat left off, taking readers on an insider?s tour through the private offices of central bankers, finance ministers, even prime ministers. financial doctrine to guide today?s dangerous ocean of money The World Is Curved is the rare book that speaks simultaneously to the Wall Street, Washington, and London elite, yet its apt storytelling shows Main Street readers how to survive in these turbulent times. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HG3881 .S5397 2008  DUE 01-03-10

The Shock Doctrine : The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism

Undue Influence : How The Wall Street Elite Put The Financial System At Risk

From Dickens To Dracula : Gothic, Economics, And Victorian Fiction

Financial Reckoning Day: Surviving The Soft Depression Of The 21st Century

  • Financial Reckoning Day: Surviving The Soft Depression Of The 21st Century
  • Attribution

    Bill Bonner with Addison Wiggin
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    Book, John Wiley & Sons, 2003
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    ?Jim Rogers, author of the bestseller Adventure Capitalist from the Foreword to Financial Reckoning Day Advanced praise from bestselling authors “An investment book that will not only enlarge your investment horizon, but also make you laugh and thoroughly entertain you for a few hours.” ?Dr. Marc Faber, author of the bestseller Tomorrow’s Gold “Financial Reckoning Day is . ?James Dale Davidson, author of the bestseller The Great Reckoning and The Sovereign Individual “A powerful and insightful vision . (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HB3722 .B66 2003  AVAILABLE

Saving The Sun : A Wall Street Gamble To Rescue Japan From Its Trillion-dollar Meltdown