Financial Crisis

Delve into the riveting world of financial turmoil with this engrossing guide that uncovers the most infamous economic crashes and bubbles in history. From ancient market frenzies to today's complex financial landscapes, this book offers a compelling journey through the ages. Tulip Mania: Uncover the details of the world’s first financial bubble and its far-reaching consequences. The Great Depression: Explore the causes and profound impacts of the 1929 economic collapse. The Dot-Com Bubble: Understand the rise and dramatic burst of the early 2000s internet frenzy. The 2008 Global ...

Periods of economic instability bring challenges that deeply affect personal and business finances. Decisions made under pressure can jeopardize the financial future, but it is possible to navigate these periods with practical strategies and a conscious approach. This book delves into the interaction between emotions and financial choices during times of crisis. Through insights rooted in behavioral finance and neuroscience, it provides tools to face economic adversities, from building a solid financial plan to overcoming cognitive biases that influence decisions in critical moments.

In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic made it painfully clear that governments across the world could not adequately protect their citizens. Millions of people suffered and died in just two years, while administrations around the globe blundered; prize-winning economists overlooked devastating trade-offs from the collapse of trade; and elites escaped to isolated retreats. In this compelling economic, political and financial history, veteran journalists Bethany McClean and Joseph Nocera analyse the American response to the pandemic as a case study, to offer fresh and provocative answers.

There have been numerous books examining the 2008 financial crisis from either a US or European perspective. Tamim Bayoumi is the first to explain how the Euro crisis and US housing crash were, in fact, parasitically intertwined. Starting in the 1980s, Bayoumi outlines the cumulative policy errors that undermined the stability of both the European and US financial sectors, highlighting the catalytic role played by European mega banks that exploited lax regulation to expand into the US market and financed unsustainable bubbles on both continents.

It is a truism that when America sneezes, Europe catches a cold. The subprime mortgage crisis, which began in America in 2007, unleashed a veritable epidemic of financial ill health all over the world. All European countries were affected, and the developing world also felt a chill. However it was Iceland, a tiny volcanic outcrop in the North Atlantic whose population of 300,000 had the highest GDP and counted itself the happiest in the world, which caught the worst cold. It has nearly killed them.

Have you been struggling to get by? Are you financially handicapped? Get your crutches here! Do you think the stock market is smarter than you? It’s not. Author and actor/comedian, Yul Spencer used to think that too, but as he learned more about the stock market, he discovered that it was not much different from skills he had with his sorted past that garnered him street-smarts.

When you know how money works, you make better financial decisions. It's that simple. Mastering Money demystifies finance and provides plainspoken, straightforward advice for building a solid financial foundation you can count on in good times and bad.

Why do some financial decisions seem simple while others leave us paralyzed? Between intense emotions and the pursuit of logic, our financial choices reveal much about who we are and how we handle uncertainty. This book dives into the universe of financial decision-making, uncovering how emotions and rationality coexist, clash, and shape the destiny of our finances. Combining insights from behavioral finance, neuroscience, and psychology, it offers practical tools to balance emotions and make more conscious and well-founded decisions.

This book examines two recent events that have apparently ended the conservative Reagan Revolution.

The High Priests of the Economics profession are a privileged and highly-compensated group. Their speeches are endlessly analyzed, their every public utterance transcribed and disseminated world-wide. Yet they’re often wrong. How can this be? How can a profession that sends one of these high priests to Scandinavia each year to receive a Nobel Prize for achievements in “Economic Science” be so error-prone? The answer is quite simple: Economics, and the social and soft sciences more generally, are not science in the same sense that physics and chemistry and engineering are science. In ...

Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble" - policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilting against risky behavior, political bubbles - arising from a potent combination of beliefs, institutions, and interests - aid, abet, and amplify risk.

In Noncompliant, Segarra chronicles her experience blowing open the doors on the relationship between the big banks and the government bodies set up to regulate them. As we mark the 10th anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, Noncompliant shows us how little has changed, and offers an urgent call for real reforms.

After over a decade of reflection and introspection, Ben Bernanke, Henry Paulson, and Timothy Geithner collaborated to produce a comprehensive, non-technical, easily digestible review of the 2007-2009 US financial crisis. Published in 2019, Firefighting provides both a complete overview of their experiences for future crisis management, while also defending their actions and policies made at the time.

Francesca "Chess" Varani is an ultra-bright, sassy, but vulnerable Barnard freshwoman from a blue-collar background in the vibrantly gritty New York City of the mid-'80s. She strikes up a volatile and somewhat toxic friendship with drama-queen classmate Kendra Marr-Löwenstein and falls into the bewitching orbit of her Salingeresque, high-toned family. Upon graduation, she moves into the Marr-Löwenstein house in the West Village as a secretary/girl-of-all-work.

One way or another, you lost money as a direct result of the financial crisis. Now you have to start making it back, and you can do that by listening to this audiobook. This audiobook shows how the markets work and how to be involved. It shows how to calculate personal risk tolerance based on personality, goals, age and years from retirement.

Consumers looking to protect their financial future in today's turbulent economy will find all the right advice in Safe Money in Tough Times. Well-known for conveying sophisticated insight in simple and engaging terms, Jonathan Pond explains how readers can take control of their financial lives, overcome any money problems, and develop an all-weather portfolio to last a lifetime.

Generation Y faces the bleakest economic landscape in modern history. The recent spikes in unemployment and debt, alongside a drop in marriage, home-buying, and childbearing rates, will have long-term consequences for a group that had no hand in creating the financial crisis. For these young adults, the American Dream is moving farther out of reach. Worse still, leaders aren't doing anything about it.

Jährlich verlieren deutsche Anleger Milliarden durch dubiose Finanzprodukte und falsche Versprechen. Doch das muss nicht sein! Dieses Buch vermittelt Ihnen, wie Sie betrügerische Angebote erkennen und sich effektiv vor Verlusten und neuen Finanzkrisen schützen. In Zeiten niedriger Zinsen und hohem Anlagedruck fallen viele auf unrealistische Renditeversprechen herein.

In the beginning was Jacqueline, and crossings on the Star Ferry with warm Hong Kong breezes blowing strands of long, black hair across her face as her eyes gazed into his. When investment banker Alexander “Dusty” Street returns to Hong Kong 20 years later, everybody wants him to save a huge acquisition, stabilize panicking financial markets, and return home to New York. The choice is obvious, until the love of his life reappears.

The financial crisis that peaked in the United States during the fall of 2008 is an excellent case study of what can go wrong with leadership and corporate governance - in business, financial ethics, government regulation directed both at the firm level and at that of the financial system itself, and legal accountability for the culprits.

The collection begins with a series of essays on Lehman Brothers, with particular attention to its last CEO, Richard Fuld....