financial crises

Our government debt is rising every day. Our population is shifting as more people retire and fewer are able to find work. This title helps you learn: how reckless spending by Congress has created a debt trap; and how Obamacare will negatively affect health care costs and our economy.

In Predator Nation, Ferguson exposes the networks of academic, government, and congressional influence?in all recent administrations, including Obama's?that prepared the path to conquest. He reveals how once-revered figures like Alan Greenspan and Larry Summers have become mere courtiers to the elite. And based on many newly released court filings, he details the extent of the crimes?there is no other word?committed in the frenzied chase for storied wealth that marked the 2000s. And, finally, he lays out a brief plan of action for how we might take it back.

Financial market strategist David Smick comments on the volatile state of the U.S. economy, looking at how the mortgage crisis came about, offering his opinions on how bad things could get, and discussing how economic trends around the world are affecting events in America.

Kate Kelly offers a behind-the-scenes look at what took place in the offices of Bear Stearns in the final seventy-two hours before the once-great Wall Street firm fell, becoming the first large business to fail in the economic crisis that would plague the country in the following months.

Examines the role of Fannie Mae, other government agencies, private mortgage companies, and Wall Street firms in the 2008-2009 financial crisis and describes how greed and fear led each institution to ignore warnings about the coming economic collapse.

This book examines the root causes of the current economic crisis in the U.S., as well as financial markets, economic regulation, economic theory, and the housing crisis.

Sometime in the future thirty-nine-year-old Lenny Abramov works for a firm that offers immortality for its wealthy clients in a world crushed by a credit crisis and violence. Still Lenny tries to convince his love, Eunice, that it is worthwhile be alive.

Analyzes the 1929 collapse of the stock market discussing the ways financiers and bankers ignored reality and therefore encouraged the crash.