global financial crisis, 2008-2009

The story of billionaire trader Steven Cohen, the rise and fall of his hedge fund SAC Capital, and the largest insider trading investigation in history.

"Teens explore the history of the Great Recession from a journalistic viewpoint to understand the causes of the decline and its effect on the worldwide economy"--Provided by publisher.

One summer during the Financial Crisis, fourteen-year-old Karthik Raghavan makes deliveries for his father's ailing Indian grocery, but he is secretly cast in a play about the young Leonard Bernstein.

"Offers a guide to real-world economics. Distilled from Sharma's quarter century traveling the world as a writer and investor, his rules challenge conventional textbook thinking on what matters--and what doesn't--for a strong economy. He shows why successful nations embrace robots and immigrants, prefer democratic leaders to autocrats, elect charismatic reformers over technocrats, and pay no mind to the debate about big versus small government. He explains why rising stock prices matter as much or more than food prices, which measure of debt is the best predictor of economic crises, and why no one number can accurately capture the value of a currency. He also demonstrates how a close reading of the Forbes billionaire lists can offer the clearest real-time warning of populist revolts against the wealthy. Reimagines economics as a practical art, giving general readers as well as political and business leaders a quick guide to the most important forces that shape a nation's future"--Provided by publisher.

"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"--.

Looks at the fraudulent practices at banks that contributed to the 2008-2009 financial crisis, and investigates why Wall Street's leaders have escaped prosecution.

Offers a script-style drama profiling the worries and lives of a struggling group of factory workers in Reading, Pennsylvania, coping with the economic decline that has ravaged factories all over the United States.

A look at the inner workings of Congress in the early twenty-first century, focusing on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and discussing protocols, players, lobbying, partisanship, and more.

"A reevaluation of economics as a practical art form distills economics into ten succinct rules while discussing how to recognize political, economic, and social changes that affect everyday life"--OCLC.