Showing posts with label Economic Conditions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economic Conditions. Show all posts
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Michael Lewis: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

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In finance, short selling (also known as shorting or going short) is the practice of selling assets, usually securities, that have been borr...

Andrew Ross Sorkin: Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System... and Themselves

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"Too big to fail" is a term of art in regulation and public policy that refers to businesses dealing with market complications rel...
Monday, January 3, 2011

Raghuram G. Rajan: Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy

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Raghuram Rajan is the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. D...

Greg Farrell: Crash of the Titans: Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch, and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America

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From the book's promotional website: Greg Farrell is a correspondent for the Financial Times. In January 2009, he broke the news that Me...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

Gordon Brown: Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization

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The author of his controversial and interesting books were recently the subject of a review on The Economist, which was titled "Oh me, ...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

Damon Vickers: The Day After the Dollar Crashes: A Survival Guide for the Rise of the New World Order

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Over a year ago, on CNBC, the author proclaimed that the U.S. dollar would be "utterly destroyed." From CNBC.com: The dollar will ...
Friday, December 10, 2010

Sen Says U.K.'s Brown Recognized Bank Problems Early On‎ Washington Post - 3 hours ago

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8 (Bloomberg) -- Amartya Sen, professor at Harvard University, talks about former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's book, "Beyo...