'We fed the monster until it blew up ...' While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a fortune. From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, this is the outrageous story of the misfits, mavericks and geniuses who, against all odds, made the greatest financial killing in history. Titel: The Big Short Genre: Faglitteratur Sammendrag: Fra junglen på handelsgulvet til Las Vegas kasinoer fortæller The Big Short den opsigtsvækkende historie om misfits, renegades og visionære, der så den største kreditbobbel nogensinde nær sin sprængning – og tjente stort på det. Type: Paperback
A Crash Course in the Future of Finance One man saw it coming. As far back as 2005, Professor Nouriel Roubini - aka 'Dr Doom' - warned that the US housing bubble was set to crash, and what would begin as a national disease would soon spread overseas resulting in a deep recession. Free market fundamentalism would fail and we'd be faced with the worst economic crisis in history, crippling our global economy and bringing the world's financial systems to a shuddering halt. Sound familiar? By guiding us through a crash course in 'crisis economics' - black swans and white swans, pressure points in the global economy, crises that extend beyond national borders and bubbles in the financial sector that spill over into the real economy - Roubini shows us that boom to bust economics does not have to be destiny. Roubini offers a course for the future: radical reform of the international financial or
Financial Times journalist Robin Wigglesworth unveils the vivid secret history of index funds, bringing to life the colourful characters behind their birth, growth and evolution into a world-conquering phenomenon. It is the untold story behind one of the most pressing financial uncertainties of our time Titel: Trillions : how a band of Wall Street renegades invented the index fund and changed finance forever From the Financial Times's global finance correspondent, the incredible true story of the iconoclastic geeks who defied conventional wisdom and endured Wall Street's scorn to launch the index fund revolution, democratizing investing and saving hundreds of billions of dollars in fees that would have otherwise lined fat cats' pockets. Fifty years ago, the Manhattan Project of money management was quietly assembled in the financial industry's backwaters, unified by the heretical idea th
A Guide to London's Global Financial Centre By many measures, London is now the leading financial hub in the world, outpacing New York City and Hong Kong. Ignorance about The City, Londons financial district, is no longer an option for those doing business in the global financial markets. Forlag: Bloomberg Press Udgivelsesår: 2008 Sider: 388 Sprog: Engelsk
What We've Learned - And Have Still to Learn - From the Financial Crisis Martin Wolf believes that too much has been said about the purely financial aspects of the economic crisis, important though they are. The actual underlying problem, as this radical new book argues, is that the world economy is unable to cope with the huge shifts it is undergoing: rapid economic integration; competition from billions of new workers; technological revolutions; and huge floods of capital across the world. With those shifts have come vast and largely unforeseen financial shocks. from the publisher Forlag: Allen Lane Udgivelsesår: 2014 Sider: 464 Sprog: Engelsk Emneord økonomi finans krise
Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies "Of all the economic bubbles that have been pricked," the editors of The Economist recently observed, "few have burst more spectacularly than the reputation of economics itself." Indeed, the financial crisis that crested in 2008 destroyed the credibility of the economic thinking that had guided policymakers for a generation. But what will take its place? In How the Economy Works, one of our leading economists provides a jargon-free exploration of the current crisis, offering a powerful argument for how economics must change to get us out of it. Roger E. A. Farmer traces the swings between classical and Keynesian economics since the early twentieth century, gracefully explaining the elements of both theories. During the Great Depression, Keynes challenged the longstanding idea that an economy was a self-correcting mechanism; but his schoo
Shows how and why our financial markets are being artificially inflated and what smart investors can do to protect their assets. What goes up must come down. The dizzying heights of the stock market can't continue indefinitely. In turbulent times, the elites are prepared, but what should the average investor do? In his most practical book to date, financial expert and investment advisor James Rickards shows how and why our financial markets are being artificially inflated and what smart investors can do to protect their assets.What goes up must come down. As any student of financial history knows, the dizzying heights of the stock market cant continue indefinitely. James Rickards lays out the true risks to our financial system and offers invaluable advice on how best to weather the storm. Titel: Aftermath : seven secrets of wealth preservation in the coming chaos Forfatter: James Rickard
Cracking the Money Code Michael Lewis, the Master of the Big Story, is back with Flash Boys. If you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other, think again. That world is dead. Now, the world's money is traded by computer code, inside black boxes in heavily guarded buildings. Even the experts entrusted with your cash don't know what's happening to it. And the very few who do aren't about to tell - because they're making a killing. This is a market that's rigged, out of control and out of sight; a market in which the chief need is for speed; and in which traders would sell their grandmothers for a microsecond. Blink, and you'll miss it. In Flash Boys, Michael Lewis tells the explosive story of how one group of ingenious oddballs and misfits set out to expose what was going on. It's the story of what it's like to declare war on some of the ri
