Catalog Search Results
Author
Formats
Description
William D. Cohan's superb and shocking narrative chronicles the fall of Bear Stearns and the end of the Second Gilded Age on Wall Street, explaining how a combination of risky bets, corporate political infighting, lax government regulations and truly bad decision-making wrought havoc on the world financial system.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"It's the spring of 1933 and times are tough all over. The only businessman not struggling is moonshiner Mickey LeDoux, though he still has to steer clear of federal agents. But banks are closing all over the country, and the small town of Darling is no exception. Folks are suddenly caught short on cash and everyone is in a panic. Desperate to avoid disaster, several town leaders--including Alvin Duffy, the bank's new vice president--hatch a plan...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Even after the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, America is still beset by the depredations of an oligarchy that is now bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks, which together control assets amounting to more than 60 percent of the country's gross domestic product, these financial institutions (now more emphatically "too big to fail") continue to hold the global economy hostage, threatening yet...
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Faced with the prospect of a new Great Depression in 2008 when the collapse of Lehman Brothers set off a global panic, the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and other agencies took extraordinary measures to contain the damage and steady the financial system and the economy. Edited by three of the policymakers who led the government's response to the crisis, with chapters written by the teams tasked...
7) Good value
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Green retraces the history of the global economy and its financial systems and argues that despite its recent lapses, the financial industry is more necessary than ever if business-people will look to their principles before their profit margins. By recognizing the precedence of moral and spiritual values over immediate profit, Green says, we have the opportunity to remake capitalism while also helping the less fortunate and finding meaning in our...
8) 13 bankers
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Description
"In 13 Bankers, prominent economist Simon Johnson and James Kwak show why our future is imperiled by the ideology of finance and by Wall Street's political control of government policy pertaining to it. To restore health and balance to our economy, Johnson and Kwak make a radical yet feasible and focused proposal: reconfigure the megabanks to be 'small enought to fail'."--Container.
9) Rogue trader
Publisher
Mirimax
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Based on the book by Nicholas Leeson and Edward Whitley, this movie shows how greed, excess and high-stakes gambling brought down one of Britain's oldest and most successful financial institutions.
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Frontline investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. The film chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, Lehman Brothers collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG and the $700 billion bailout.