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How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable
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Mark Gilbert
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The credit crunch affected every investor and every consumer, every industry and every government program, yet few people truly understand how it happened. Subprime mortgages were center stage, but behind the scenes a conspiracy of greed among bankers, investors, rating agencies, and regulators imperiled everyone's financial future. We need to know what went wrong and how to change the practices that led to this calamity.
Bloomberg columnist Mark Gilbert shows how Wall Street's tolerance for extremes made the global credit crunch both foreseeable and inevitable. He offers a blow-by-blow account of what went wrong and what lessons need to be learned from the crisis.
- Gilbert's argument - that everyone with skin in the money game had a vested interest in pretending that nothing could go awry - is a well-defended, compelling indictment of the financial community.
- Gilbert is able to make complex financial events easy to understand.
- His outlook is truly global: this financial crisis respects no geographical boundaries, and Gilbert draws on anecdotes and examples from around the world to make his case.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 783
In this absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history in the vein of the works of Michael Lewis and Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial executive and CNBC contributor examines the five most significant stock market crashes in the United States over the past century, revealing how they have defined the nation today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A solid telling of crucial history
- De Philo en 06-17-17
De: Scott Nations
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13 Bankers
- The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
- De: Simon Johnson, James Kwak
- Narrado por: Erik Synnestvedt
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 255
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 102
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Easy to Understand and Comprehend
- De Kyle en 04-11-10
De: Simon Johnson, y otros
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More Money Than God
- Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
- De: Sebastian Mallaby
- Narrado por: Alan Nebelthau
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 871
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 669
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 662
The Paul Volker Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington Post journalist Sebastian Mallaby has garnered New York Times Editor’s Choice and Notable Book honors for his enthralling nonfiction. Bolstered by Mallaby’s unprecedented access to the industry, More Money Than God tells the inside story of hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s and 1970s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007–2009.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Valiant effort but lacking analytic horsepower...
- De ND en 01-10-11
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After the Music Stopped
- The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
- De: Alan S. Blinder
- Narrado por: Graham Vick
- Duración: 15 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 148
Alan S. Blinder - esteemed Princeton professor, Wall Street Journal columnist, and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board under Alan Greenspan - is one of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers. In After the Music Stopped, he delivers a masterful narrative of how the worst economic crisis in postwar American history happened, what the government did to fight it, and what we must do to recover from it.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Irresponsible, corrupt, and confused book
- De Thomas en 12-22-14
De: Alan S. Blinder
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Borrowed Time
- Two Centuries of Booms, Busts, and Bailouts at Citi
- De: James Freeman, Vern McKinley
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
To save the economy and keep Citi afloat in 2008, the government provided huge infusions of cash through multiple bailouts that frustrated and angered the American public. But, as Wall Street Journal writer James Freeman and financial expert Vern McKinley reveal, the 2008 crisis was just one of many disasters Citi has experienced since its founding more than 200 years ago. In Borrowed Time they reveal Citi’s disturbing history of instability and government support. It’s a story that neither Citi nor Washington wants told.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Biased
- De CF en 08-09-19
De: James Freeman, y otros
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Wall Street
- A History, Updated Edition
- De: Charles R. Geisst
- Narrado por: Stephen McLaughlin
- Duración: 27 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 108
Wall Street is an unending source of legend - and nightmares. It is a universal symbol of both the highest aspirations of economic prosperity and the basest impulses of greed and deception. Charles R. Geisst's Wall Street is at once a chronicle of the street itself - from the days when the wall was merely a defensive barricade built by Peter Stuyvesant - and an engaging economic history of the United States, a tale of profits and losses, enterprising spirits, and key figures that transformed America into the most powerful economy in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Many books in one; best linking of stories, eras
- De Philo en 03-23-14
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Reckless Endangerment
- How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
- De: Gretchen Morgenson, Joshua Rosner
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 11 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 155
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 130
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 130
In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenson, the star business columnist of The New York Times, exposes how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect the country from financial harm were actually complicit in the actions that finally blew up the American economy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Required reading
- De David en 10-24-11
De: Gretchen Morgenson, y otros
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The Death of Money
- The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System
- De: James Rickards
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,097
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 938
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 935
The international monetary system has collapsed three times in the past hundred years, in 1914, 1939, and 1971. Each collapse was followed by a period of tumult: War, civil unrest, or significant damage to the stability of the global economy. Now James Rickards, the acclaimed author of Currency Wars, shows why another collapse is rapidly approaching - and why this time, nothing less than the institution of money itself is at risk.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good review of the global financial system
- De Jean en 04-22-14
De: James Rickards
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When Genius Failed
- The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
- De: Roger Lowenstein
- Narrado por: Roger Lowenstein
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,448
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,748
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,741
Roger Lowenstein, the bestselling author of Buffett, captures Long-Term's roller-coaster ride in gripping detail. Drawing on confidential internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein crafts a story that reads like a first-rate thriller from beginning to end. He explains not just how the fund made and lost its money, but what it was about the personalities of Long-Term's partners, the arrogance of their mathematical certainties, and the late-nineties culture of Wall Street that made it all possible.
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1 out of 5 stars
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When Genius Failed
- De Sean en 12-17-08
De: Roger Lowenstein
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King of Capital
- The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
- De: John E. Morris, David Carey
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 607
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 480
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 481
The financial establishment---banks and investment bankers, such as Citigroup, Bear Stearns, Lehman, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley---were the cowboys, recklessly assuming risks, leveraging up to astronomical levels, and driving the economy to the brink of disaster.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great Story Ruined by Monotone Reading
- De Marc en 04-23-13
De: John E. Morris, y otros
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Why Wall Street Matters
- De: William D. Cohan
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 4 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
William D. Cohan is no knee-jerk advocate for Wall Street and the big banks. He's one of America's most respected financial journalists and the progressive best-selling author of House of Cards. He has long been critical of the bad behavior that plagued much of Wall Street in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, and because he spent 17 years as an investment banker on Wall Street, he is an expert on its inner workings as well.
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2 out of 5 stars
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An Inch Deep and A Mile Wide
- De Doug Sheridan en 04-26-17
De: William D. Cohan
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Other People's Money
- The Real Business of Finance
- De: John Kay
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 235
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 187
The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector devotes too little attention to the search for new investment opportunities and the stewardship of existing ones, and far too much to secondary-market dealing in existing assets. Regulation has contributed more to the problems than the solutions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Listened twice. Everyone must read this.
- De Tristan en 01-18-16
De: John Kay
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The Ascent of Money
- A Financial History of the World
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,356
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,186
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,175
Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labor. Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A mostly successful and interesting history
- De A reader en 02-24-09
De: Niall Ferguson
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Shaky Ground
- The Strange Saga of the US Mortgage Giants
- De: Bethany McLean
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 3 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 100
In 2008 the US Treasury put Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into a life-support state known as "conservatorship" to prevent their failure - and worldwide economic chaos. The two companies, which were always controversial, have become a battleground. Today, Fannie and Freddie are profitable again but still in conservatorship. Their profits are being redirected toward reducing the federal deficit, which leaves them with no buffer should they suffer losses again.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Details on the Culture and History of the GSEs
- De Jose en 10-15-15
De: Bethany McLean
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Currency Wars
- The Making of the Next Global Crises
- De: James Rickards
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,771
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,503
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,509
In 1971, President Nixon imposed national price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme measure intended to end an ongoing currency war that had destroyed faith in the U.S. dollar. Today we are engaged in a new currency war, and this time the consequences will be far worse than those that confronted Nixon. Currency wars are one of the most destructive and feared outcomes in international economics.
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2 out of 5 stars
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don't be misled
- De peter en 04-01-12
De: James Rickards
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Fault Lines
- How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World's Economy
- De: Raghuram Rajan
- Narrado por: Richard Davidson
- Duración: 12 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 147
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines, Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us if they aren't fixed.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A REAL SNOOZER
- De Frank en 12-02-10
De: Raghuram Rajan
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Naked Money
- A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters
- De: Charles Wheelan
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 13 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 599
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 531
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 528
Consider the $20 bill. It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity. What makes a $20 bill actually worth $20? In the third volume of his best-selling Naked series, Charles Wheelan uses this seemingly simple question to open the door to the surprisingly colorful world of money and banking.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is a beautiful audiobook, and well-narrated.
- De Thirsty Mind en 11-10-18
De: Charles Wheelan