Product Description: Baradaran contributes to the growing conversation on American inequality by highlighting one of its prime causes: unequal credit.The United States has two separate banking systems today -- one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else...read more

Product Description: A number of changes have been made to the supervision and regulation of banks as a result of the recent financial meltdown. Some are for the better, such as the Basel III rules for increasing the quality and quantity of capital in banks, but legal changes on both sides of the Atlantic now make it much more difficult to resolve failing banks by means of taxpayer funded bail-outs and could hinder bank resolution in future financial crises...read more

Product Description: When did capitalism and making money become bad things? Where do you draw the line between making a living and greed? Can you work on Wall Street without selling your soul? Is it possible there are more decent people working on Wall Street than there are wolves? In this book, Curtin challenges the established narrative of self-interest and greed that has informed so much of the coverage around Wall Street, and sets out an optimistic and positive vision for the future of America's financial heart...read more

The Eighth Edition of Banking and Financial Services is publishing at a time where the world that we live in is changing rapidly. The entire financial sector is threatened by significant risks at home and abroad, inside and outside the individual financial firm. Banking and Financial Services is designed to help students master established management principles and to confront the perplexing issues of risk, regulation, technology, and competition that bankers and other financial-service managers see as their greatest challenges for the present and future. This new edition offers the student many of the key trends and changes in the financial-services sector. With this relevant information students are able to grasp the rapid changes that are happening in this course area and in the real world. Banking and Financial Services also remains the most readable and engaging text on the market, with a plethora of real-world examples and a robust support package for instructors.

Product Description: The financial crisis exposed the potentially unsavory results of the interaction between low- and moderate income households and alternative and mainstream financial institutions. Many households were overleveraged or paid high costs for financial services, while others lacked access to useful financial products that can cushion against economic instability...read more

Product Description: The gold standard for measuring financial progress, updated for today's market From Ross Levin, a trusted financial planner, comes Implementing the Wealth Management Index. The new edition of the book Investment Advisor called a "landmark opus," this revised and updated volume expands upon his legendary Wealth Management Index tool...read more

Product Description: A fascinating story of a legendary dealmaker who masterminded an unprecedented merger Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill orchestrated many deals over his legendary forty-five year career—none bigger than the 1998 epic merger of Travelers and Citibank to create the international conglomerate, Citigroup...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)