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Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Investigates the shattering impact the recent global financial meltdown had on how economists think. Why did so few of the brightest minds in finance not only fail to predict the crash but also argue that it was impossible? With insights from experts and scientific experiments that highlight the hidden money drives in us all, explore a seismic shift in our efforts to understand the marketplace--Container.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In The Real Crash, New York Times bestselling author Peter D. Schiff argues that America is enjoying a government-inflated bubble, one that reality will explode . . . with disastrous consequences for the economy and for each of us. Schiff demonstrates how the infusion of billions of dollars of stimulus money has only dug a deeper hole: the United States government simply spends too much and does not collect enough money to pay its debts, and in the...
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Draws on interviews with leading politicians and businesspeople to argue that the United States is losing its position on the world stage due to economic imbalances, the polarization of politics, and a failing education system.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
An assessment of the U.S. financial crisis and its lessons explores its complex contributing factors while revealing some of its more devastating consequences, outlining potentially divisive solutions that may be necessary for recovery.
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A critical assessment of America's current economic prospects cites such factors as a shift away from manufacturing, a failing educational system, and the outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries, arguing that future generations will be facing a devastating lack of opportunities.
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Publisher
Broadside Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Monica Crowley offers a rollicking, sharp-elbowed tour of the damage caused by Barack Obama's reckless spending and radical political agenda. But she also sets the stage for the inevitable conservative comeback, arguing that the time has come for a revival of the Reaganesque "Happy Warrior' spirit"--
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Publisher
Portfolio/Pengiun
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author and financial guru Harry Dent shows why we're facing a decade-long "great deflation"-and what to do about it. Throughout his long career as an economic forecaster, Harry Dent has relied on demographics-the ultimate tool for predicting both big and small trends, decades in advance. Now he explains what's going to happen to our economy with the accelerating retirements of the Baby Boomers. Inflation rises when a larger than usual...
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"The age of American global dominance is ending. In recent years, risky economic and foreign policies have steadily eroded the power structure in place since the Cold War. And now, staggering under a huge burden of debt, the country must make some tough choices--or watch its creditors walk away. In The Price of Decline, Michael Moran, a leading geostrategy analyst at Roubini Global Economics, the Council on Foreign Relations, and other leading institutions,...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A spirited examination of why what's good for American business elites and what's good for Americans have become misaligned"--Front jacket flap.
In the past, government and business were as much partners as rivals, resulting in broad-based growth and healthy social development. But advocates of anti-government market fundamentalism are intent on scrapping the instrument of nearly a century of unprecedented economic and social progress. Hacker and...
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