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  • Building from the Ground Up

    Reclaiming the American Housing Boom

    by Kevin Erdmann ...
    Remember when mania led to a massive housing bubble? When Americans found themselves saddled with too many houses and were hit with the reality that our economy had been built on unsustainable borrowing? Everyone knows about that, right?What if that was wrong? What if, when we get down to brass tacks, Americans have been struggling to build enough new housing—especially in places where housing is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Shut Out

    How a Housing Shortage Caused the Great Recession and Crippled Our Economy

    by Kevin Erdmann ...
    Series series Mercatus Center at George Mason University
    The United States suffers from a shortage of well-placed homes. This was true even at the peak of the housing boom in 2005. Using a broad array of evidence on housing inflation, income, migration, homeownership trends, and international comparisons, Shut Out demonstrates that high home prices have been largely caused by the constrained housing supply in a handful of magnet cities leading the new ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

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  • Macroeconomics

    by BarCharts,Inc ...
    This guide consists of basic macroeconomics concepts and principles, which can be used in school, home or in work place. Topics covered include: supply & demand, market equilibrium & measuring, output/income & price level, inflation & unemployment, consumption & savings, fiscal policies and much more. ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown

    Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash

    by Charles R. Morris ...
    Previously published as The Trillion Dollar MeltdownNow fully updated with the latest financial developments, this is the bestselling book that briefly and brilliantly explains how we got into the economic mess that is the Credit Crunch. With the housing markets unravelling daily and distress signals flying throughout the rest of the economy, there is little doubt that we are facing a fierce ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • House of Debt

    How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again

    by Atif Mian, Amir Sufi ...
    "A concise and powerful account of how the great recession happened and what should be done to avoid another one . . . well-argued and consistently informative." — Wall Street JournalThe Great American Recession of 2007-2009 resulted in the loss of eight million jobs and the loss of four million homes to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnessed a dramatic rise in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hard Money

    Taking Gold to a Higher Investment Level

    by Shayne McGuire ...
    An in-depth guide to making gold a serious part of your portfolioGold, the long forgotten store of value that was once the center of the global financial system, suddenly matters a great deal again. It has become a leading asset by virtue of its strong performance, and its booming demand has made it the only financial asset that remains in an uninterrupted bull market. And yet gold remains one of ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • International Finance For Dummies

    by Ayse Evrensel ...
    Want to get the most out of your International Finance course?Nowadays the value of daily foreign exchange trading is more than one hundred times the value of annual international trade in goods and services. As result of the great importance of international financial transactions, the subject of international finance continues to develop as fast as—or faster than—any other field in economics and ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Taxes in America

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Leonard E. Burman, Joel Slemrod ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Despite their passion and fury, contemporary Americans are remarkably clueless about how their tax system works. But with heated debates over taxation now roiling Congress and the nation, an understanding of our tax system is of vital importance. Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know®, by preeminent tax scholars Leonard E. Burman and Joel Slemrod, offers a clear, concise explanation of how ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Future of Finance

    A New Model for Banking and Investment

    by Moorad Choudhry, Gino Landuyt ...
    Series Book 576 - Wiley Finance
    New banking and investment business models to navigate the post-financial crisis environmentThe financial crisis of 2007-2008 has discredited business models in the banking and fund management industries. In The Future of Finance, Moorad Choudhry and Gino Landuyt argue that banks must realign their business models, implying a lower return-on-equity; diversifying their funding sources; and ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • Why Too Big to Fail?

    How the Regulatory System Failed the American People.

    by Kaye Bonnick ...
    By November 2009, 120 banks had failed since the start of the year, unemployment was at 10.2%, a twenty six year high, and the government had invested billions of tax dollars in failing financial institutions that were deemed Too Big to Fail. WHY? What made them too big to fail and why did the government bail them out? Was this a necessary evil or just plain evil? This book takes an important look ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Invest in Europe Now!

    Why Europe's Markets Will Outperform the US in the Coming Years

    by David R. Kotok, Vincenzo Sciarretta ...
    An insider's guide to investing in EuropeWith the U.S. market in shambles, investors are looking for other places to put their money. Europe has become the destination of choice, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.Using the different perspectives of an author who lives in Europe and an author who lives in the United States, Invest in Europe Now! is one the most informative guides ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

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  • Rethinking Housing Bubbles

    The Role of Household and Bank Balance Sheets in Modeling Economic Cycles

    by Steven D. Gjerstad, Vernon L. Smith ...
    In this highly original piece of work, Steven D. Gjerstad and Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith analyze the role of housing and its associated mortgage financing as a key element of economic cycles. The authors combine data from both laboratory and real markets to provide insight into the bubble propensity of real-world economic actors and use novel historical analysis on the Great Recession, the ... Read more

    $70.59 USD