global financial crisis, 2008-2009

A Cameroonian immigrant arrives in Harlem hoping for a better life for his family, but when the economy collapses, their marriage begins to fall apart and all four members' lives are dramatically upended.

What caused the 2008 economic collapse? What can we learn from the Great Recession? Sheila Bair, former head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, provides her take.

Examines the financial practices that led to the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and how people around the world were affected.

"In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great"--Publisher.

"Examines the complex events that led up to the global financial crisis and recession of 2007 onward, ... [and discusses] economic theories, the effects of globalization, and income inequality"--Back cover.

Uses a graphic approach to discuss the economic policies that led to the 2008-2008 crash and how Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism continues to affect current politics.

"From the former Treasury Secretary, the account of the unprecedented effort to save the U.S. economy from collapse in the wake of the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression"--OCLC.

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.