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“norbert j michel”

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  • Crushing Capitalism

    How Populist Policies are Threatening the American Dream

    by Norbert J. Michel ...
    Have you heard this narrative? The middle class has been hollowed out because of an overreliance on free markets. Americans can’t compete with low-cost labor and imports, so all the good jobs in America have disappeared, especially those in manufacturing. It’s a dismal argument that many politicians, even some on the right, have spent the past few years spinning. They say that the American dream ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Financing Opportunity

    How Financial Markets Have Fueled American Prosperity for More than Two Centuries

    by Norbert J. Michel, Jennifer J. Schulp ...
    Financial markets have fueled American prosperity for more than two centuries, so why are they often distrusted and criticized as harmful?The United States has had robust financial markets practically from the date the nation was founded. Within several years of ratifying the Constitution, the depth and breadth of America's banking and securities markets rivaled those of any other developed nation ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Why Shadow Banking Didn’t Cause the Financial Crisis

    And Why Regulating Contagion Won’t Help

    by Norbert J. Michel ...
    Most American adults easily recognize the following description of the 2008 financial crisis. Unregulated Wall Street firms (so-called shadow banks) made too many risky bets with derivatives, causing the housing bubble to burst. The contagious run through the financial system was only stopped by bailouts from the federal government and major regulatory changes. But what if the record demonstrates ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Public Debt Sustainability

    International Perspectives

    by Xavier Debrun, Pablo Guidotti, Lars Jonung, Carlos Newland, Emilio Ocampo, Jan-Egbert Sturm, Steve H. Hanke, Fredrik Ng Andersson, Charles Paul Blahous0, James C. Capretta1, Vera Z. Eichenauer2, Lars P. Feld3, Norbert J. Michel4, Wolf Heinrich Reuter5, Thomas R. Saving6, Kurt Couchman7, John Merrifield8, Barry Poulson0 ...
    As countries recover from the coronavirus pandemic, they are confronted with an even more challenging debt crisis. Xavier Debrun argues in the foreword that in deciding where we go from here that there is no longer a consensus regarding the optimum design and enforcement of fiscal rules. Rather we must address a series of questions and challenges to the conventional wisdom. This book provides an ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

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    by Robert W. Kolb ...
    Series series Financial Management Association Survey and Synthesis
    In 2006 residential real estate prices peaked and started to fall, then threatened the world's financial institutions in 2007, and confronted the global economy with disaster in 2008. In the past few years, millions of people have lost very substantial portions of their wealth. And while the markets have rebounded considerably, they are still far from a full recovery. Now, professional economists, ... Read more

    $53.99 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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  • What Caused the Financial Crisis

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    The deflation of the subprime mortgage bubble in 2006-7 is widely agreed to have been the immediate cause of the collapse of the financial sector in 2008. Consequently, one might think that uncovering the origins of subprime lending would make the root causes of the crisis obvious. That is essentially where public debate about the causes of the crisis began—and ended—in the month following the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Mutual Fund Industry

    Competition and Investor Welfare

    by R. Glenn Hubbard, Marc Van Audenrode, Jimmy Royer, Michael Koehn, Stanley Ornstein ...
    Mutual funds form the bedrock of retirement savings in the United States, and, considering their rapid growth, are sure to be more critical in the future. Because the size of fees paid by investors to mutual fund advisers can strongly affect the return on investment, these fees have become a contentious issue in Congress and the courts, with many arguing that investment advisers grow rich at the ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Financial System, Financial Regulation and Central Bank Policy

    by Thomas F. Cargill ...
    Traditional money and banking textbooks are long, expensive, and full of so much institutional and technical modeling detail that students cannot understand the big picture. Thomas F. Cargill presents a new alternative: a short, inexpensive book without the 'bells and whistles' that teaches students the fundamentals in a clear, narrative form. In an engaging writing style, Cargill explains the ... Read more

    $72.19 USD

  • The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    by Joseph E. E. Stiglitz ...
    A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Bankers’ New Clothes

    What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It - New and Expanded Edition

    by Anat Admati, Martin Hellwig ...
    **A Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek Book of the YearWhy our banking system is broken—and what we must do to fix it**New bank failures have been a rude awakening for everyone who believed that the banking industry was reformed after the Global Financial Crisis—and that we’d never again have to choose between massive bailouts and financial havoc. The Bankers’ New ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Road Ahead for the Fed

    by John D. Ciorciari, John B. Taylor ...
    Expert contributors examine the recent actions of the Federal Reserve and suggest directions for the Fed going forward by drawing on past political, historical, and market principles. They explain how the Fed arrived at its current position, offer ideas on how to exit the situation, and propose new market-based reforms that can help keep the Fed on the road to good monetary policy in the future. ... Read more

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