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Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
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Neil Irwin
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When the first fissures became visible to the naked eye in August 2007, suddenly the most powerful men in the world were three men who were never elected to public office. They were the leaders of the world’s three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, and Jean-Claude Trichet of the European Central Bank. Over the next five years, they and their fellow central bankers deployed trillions of dollars, pounds, and euros to contain the waves of panic that threatened to bring down the global financial system, moving on a scale and with a speed that had no precedent.
Neil Irwin’s The Alchemists is a gripping account of the most intense exercise in economic crisis management we’ve ever seen, a poker game in which the stakes have run into the trillions of dollars. The book begins in, of all places, Stockholm, Sweden, in the 17th century, where central banking had its rocky birth, and then progresses through a brisk but dazzling tutorial on how the central banker came to exert such vast influence over our world, from its troubled beginnings to the age of Greenspan, bringing the listener into the present with a marvelous handle on how these figures and institutions became what they are - the possessors of extraordinary power over our collective fate. What they chose to do with those powers is the heart of the story Irwin tells.
Irwin covered the Fed and other central banks from the earliest days of the crisis for the Washington Post, enjoying privileged access to leading central bankers and people close to them. His account, based on reporting that took place in 27 cities in 11 countries, is the holistic, truly global story of the central bankers’ role in the world economy we have been missing. It is a landmark reckoning with central bankers and their power, with the great financial crisis of our time, and with the history of the relationship between capitalism and the state. Definitive, revelatory, and riveting, The Alchemists shows us where money comes from - and where it may well be going.
©2013 Neil Irwin (P)2013 Gildan Media LLCLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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- De: James Freeman, Vern McKinley
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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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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Biased
- De CF en 08-09-19
De: James Freeman, y otros
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Lords of Finance
- The Bankers Who Broke the World
- De: Liaquat Ahamed
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 18 h y 32 m
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It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions made by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for World War II and reverberated for decades.
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interesting insight into interwar period!
- De Toru en 11-27-09
De: Liaquat Ahamed
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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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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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Irresponsible, corrupt, and confused book
- De Thomas en 12-22-14
De: Alan S. Blinder
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The Money Makers
- How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace
- De: Eric Rauchway
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
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Shortly after arriving in the White House in early 1933, Franklin Roosevelt took the United States off the gold standard. His opponents thought his decision unwise at best and ruinous at worst. But they could not have been more wrong. With The Money Makers, Eric Rauchway tells the absorbing story of how FDR and his advisors pulled the levers of monetary policy to save the domestic economy and propel the United States to unprecedented prosperity and superpower status.
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Excellent over view and easily understandable
- De L. Ford Ballard, Jr. en 01-15-19
De: Eric Rauchway
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American Default
- The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold
- De: Sebastian Edwards
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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The American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt did just that, when in a bid to pull the country out of depression, he depreciated the US dollar in relation to gold, effectively annulling all debt contracts. American Default is the story of this forgotten chapter in America's history.
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Superb
- De Jean en 12-08-18
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Bought and Paid For
- The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street
- De: Charles Gasparino
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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According to business reporter Charles Gasparino, President Obama is faking his outrage at Wall Street, and his calls for new policies to rein in banks that are "too big to fail" are just pabulum. In reality, Obama has climbed into bed with Wall Street CEOs, giving them what they want so they will support his liberal, big-government agenda.
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Revealing and Convincing
- De Walter en 10-24-11
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Dealing with China
- An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower
- De: Henry M. Paulson
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 18 h y 31 m
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When Hu Jintao, China's then vice president, came to visit the New York Stock Exchange and Ground Zero in 2002, he asked Hank Paulson to be his guide. It was a testament to the pivotal role that Goldman Sachs played in helping China experiment with private enterprise. In Dealing with China, the best-selling author of On the Brink draws on his unprecedented access to both the political and business leaders of modern China to answer several key questions.
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A Valuable Book on China
- De Michael Moore en 09-04-15
De: Henry M. Paulson
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A First-Class Catastrophe
- The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History
- De: Diana B. Henriques
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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Monday, October 19, 1987, was by far the worst day in Wall Street history. The market fell 22.6% - almost twice as bad as the worst day of 1929 - equal to a one-day loss of nearly 5,000 points today. Black Monday was more than seven years in the making and threatened nearly every US financial institution. Drawing on superlative archival research and dozens of original interviews, Diana B. Henriques weaves a tale of missed opportunities, market delusions, and destructive actions.
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Financial History Rhymes
- De David Larson en 10-07-17
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JFK and the Reagan Revolution
- A Secret History of American Prosperity
- De: Lawrence Kudlow, Brian Domitrovic
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
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Who invented supply-side economics - the idea that cutting tax rates can result in more growth, more prosperity at all income levels, and even more tax revenue flowing into the IRS? Most people would credit the economic team that advised Ronald Reagan in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But in fact supply-side economics came of age two decades earlier. And the first president who embraced it was one of the biggest icons of the Democratic Party - John F. Kennedy.
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Turn the speed up to 1 1/2 to 2 times
- De B. MIDDLETON en 09-15-16
De: Lawrence Kudlow, y otros
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The Great American Stick Up
- Greedy Bankers and the Politicians Who Love Them
- De: Robert Scheer
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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Instead of going where other journalists have gone in search of this story - the board rooms and trading floors of the big Wall Street firms - Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal.
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A great telling of an unfortunate part of history
- De Trace en 10-27-20
De: Robert Scheer
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A Crisis Wasted
- Barack Obama's Defining Decisions
- De: Reed Hundt
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
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This book is the compelling story of President Obama’s domestic policy decisions made between September 2008 and his inauguration on January 20, 2009. Unlike all other presidents except Abraham Lincoln - who decided not to allow slavery to expand westward before he was sworn in - Barack Obama determined the fate of his presidency before he took office. The results of these fateful decisions led to Donald Trump taking his place eight years later. This book describes how and why these decisions were made, and discusses whether the outcomes could have been different.
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Somewhat complicated, not audiobook material
- De Mariana Nolasco en 09-20-20
De: Reed Hundt
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And the Weak Suffer What They Must?
- Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
- De: Yanis Varoufakis
- Narrado por: Yanis Varoufakis, Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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In January 2015, Yanis Varoufakis, an economics professor teaching in Austin, Texas, was elected to the Greek parliament with more votes than any other member of parliament. He was appointed finance minister, and, in the whirlwind five months that followed, everything he had warned about was confirmed as the "troika" (the European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund, and European Commission) stonewalled his efforts to resolve Greece's economic crisis.
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interesting perspective
- De Jamila en 07-12-20
De: Yanis Varoufakis
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The Battle of Bretton Woods
- John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
- De: Benn Steil
- Narrado por: Philip Rose
- Duración: 15 h y 53 m
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When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for "a new Bretton Woods" to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of 44 nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of the century's second great war, has become shorthand for enlightened globalization.
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Is this a mystery, a history or an economics book?
- De Neil en 04-23-13
De: Benn Steil
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Alchemists
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- Adam
- 08-30-13
Don't bother if you read the news
I enjoyed this book's narration but, having enthusiastically read the news during the period which the story covers (2007-2012, primarily), I did not learn much.
If you are still curious about the major monetary policy decisions made during the financial crisis and Great Recession, however, I would definitely recommend this book.
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- Leonard
- 07-24-13
The Financial Crisis You Did Not Know!
Neil Irwin's history of the Financial Meltdown and the intervention of the central bankers in averting a economic catastrophe gives some great insight into the events of that period. Bernanke did not always get it right, but the decisions he and the others in the Federal Reserve made kept the economy from a complete collapse. This at a time when the politicians were capable of nothing but bluster and inaction (oh, forgot that is still the case). The interactions and interdependencies of the global economy really come to the forefront.
It provides great insight into background and personalities of the key players.
Walter Dixon's narration was first rate.
This is a must-listen-to book for anyone interested in current affairs, economics or the state of the world economy. I had a hard time turning off my Ipod.
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- c
- 02-24-17
What a timeline?!
I am still leasing it. So far, a bit annoyed with the frequent year jumping back-and-forth though the narration.
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- Gerard
- 05-15-16
A great story, a good bit of history but a little biased
If you are interested in economics and central banking it is certainly worth the listen. The writer has a distinct bias in favor of interventionist central banks and this occasionally detracts from an otherwise worthy historical account of the time.
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- Saad H
- 02-09-15
Amazing book for every economic indeed
It speaks about central banks in general & focuses on central bankers actions during the 2007 crises, and yet referred to some historical event.
Highly recommended
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- Donald
- 07-23-13
Couldn't Listen to this narrator
What would have made The Alchemists better?
A different narrator
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I can't say a lot about this book because I couldn't get past the first 5 minutes. The narrator sounded like the computer generated voice used to convert text to audio. I was looking forward to the topic but the narrator was unbearable. I guess I will have to get the book at the library when I have some time to read it myself.
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