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"How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes uses illustration, humor, and accessible storytelling to explain complex topics of economic growth and monetary systems. In it, economic expert and bestselling author of Crash Proof, Peter Schiff teams up with his brother Andrew to apply their signature "take no prisoners" logic to expose the glaring fallacies that have become so ingrained in our country's economic conversation.Inspired by How an Economy Grows...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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"Manias, Panics and Crashes, is a vivid and entertaining account of the way that mismanagement of money and credit has led to financial explosions over the centuries. Covering such topics as the history and anatomy of crises, speculative manias, and the lender of last resort, this book has been hailed as 'a true classic...both timely and timeless.' In this new, updated fifth edition, Kindleberger and Aliber expand upon the ideas presented in the previous...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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A former economic advisor to the White House and Treasury Department, Dr. Nouriel Roubini explains why the world's economy got into its current financial mess and how to fix it. In 2005, Roubini warned that the U.S. housing bubble was set to explode and bring global financial systems to a screeching halt. With his concerns now reality, he contends that no amount of stimulus spending can end the crisis until the massive imbalances at its heart are...
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McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Written by the man who "Fortune" magazine refers to as a "Global Guru," "When Markets Collide" offers a cogent picture of the rapidly changing world financial system, and provides a detailed blueprint for capitalizing on the opportunities now available.
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Wiley
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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"Contrary to popular opinion, markets rarely experience significant periods down; half of the time they do rise but the other half of the time they go nowhere - trading seemingly mindlessly in a range with quick ups and breathtaking downs, only to come back to where they were. These periods last far too long to just buy and hold, since that kind of a strategy leads to 0 returns or worse. What's an investor to do when you have to save for college educations...
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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley...
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2018.
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English
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"Economies, companies, and markets operate according to patterns or cycles. These cycles arise from naturally occurring phenomena in everyday business, and to a large extent from the simple ups and downs of human psychology and behavior. When should you pull out of the market? When should you stay in? These fundamental psychological influences -- including greed and fear -- can and do profoundly affect investors. If you carefully study past cycles,...
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Applied Austrian economics doesn't get better than this. Murray N. Rothbard's America's Great Depression is a staple of modern economic literature and crucial for understanding a pivotal event in American and world history.
Rothbard opens with a theoretical treatment of business cycle theory, showing how an expansive monetary policy generates imbalances between investment and consumption. He proceeds to examine the Fed's policies of the 1920s,
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John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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William Bonner and Addison Wiggin deliver their extremely successful financial newsletter, Daily Reckoning, to more than half a million readers. Now this pair of maverick investment writers shows that the key to surviving a soft depression is not collecting and analyzing current market data. Instead, if Americans want to plow through their financial woes and put some muscle back in their portfolios, they must look to the follies of the past. With...
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ISLET-Verlag
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"The financial sector has succeeded in depicting itself as part of the productive economy, yet for centuries banking was recognized as being parasitic. The essence of parasitism is not only to drain the host's nourishment, but also to dull the host's brain so that it does not recognize that the parasite is there. This is the illusion that much of Europe and the United States suffer under today. The aim of this book is to pierce this illusion and replace...
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John Wiley
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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"An exhaustive look at world markets and why the economy has been so unpredictable Greece isn't the only country drowning in debt. The Debt Supercycle?when the easily managed, decades-long growth of debt results in a massive sovereign debt and credit crisis?is affecting developed countries around the world, including the United States. For these countries, there are only two options, and neither is good?restructure the debt or reduce it through austerity...
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Rosen Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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As the United States teeters on the brink of a severe economic downturn, many citizens have begun looking back at the Great Depression and wondering if it's about to happen again. An economic downturn is not necessarily a depression. When students hear the word "depression," they immediately conjure images of breadlines, migrant workers, dust bowls, and downtrodden individuals. The mechanisms of a depression, its causes and effects, and how it develops...
