"Examines effects of the 2008-09 financial downturn on all workers with particular attention to low-income older workers who stand to suffer the most, often retiring early because of lack of work; discusses the real effects of the stock market decline, falling house prices, and …
Chronicles the rise and fall of the subprime mortgage business through the stories of two corporate empires. A true-crime exposé of the subprime salesmen and Wall Street alchemists who produced the biggest financial scandal in American history. The sales force at Ameriquest Mor…
In this bracing, page-turning account of his stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted ways of Washington, Neil Barofsky offers an irrefutable indictment, from an insider of the Bush and Obama administrations, of the mishandling of the $700 billion bailout fund. In vivid …
This volume brings together leading economists from a diverse set of backgrounds and presents their take on how economics can explain the current crisis but also how the crisis will affect economic thought.
This volume brings together leading economists from a diverse set of backgrounds and presents their take on how economics can explain the current crisis but also how the crisis will affect economic thought.
"Journalist Danny Schechter investigates a complex web of fraud and crime that he shows played a major, if largely unreported, role in bringing the economy down. His four-year investigation focuses on three interconnected cesspools of corruption."--Publisher's description.
"Journalist Danny Schechter investigates a complex web of fraud and crime that he shows played a major, if largely unreported, role in bringing the economy down. His four-year investigation focuses on three interconnected cesspools of corruption."--Publisher's description.
Charles H. Ferguson explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of academic, financial, and political influence, in all recent administrations, that prepared the predators' path to conquest. Over the last several decades, the Un…
"The book examines trade agreements in the context of the current world economic crisis and the uncompleted World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round of trade negotiations. With economies shrinking and protectionism on the rise, many fear a protracted global recession. This rais…
Professor De Bruin has written an important book. For all of the thousands of pages written on the recent global financial crisis, there is very little solid ethical analysis of the underlying causes and concepts. He makes a critical distinction between the motivation of financi…
The roots of the mortgage bubble, the story of the Wall Street collapse, and the government's unprecedented response are captured in this blow-by-blow account of "the end of Wall Street" by one of our most trusted business journalists.
