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Product Description: Thaat 2000 edition in VG++ //291 pages as new // orange cover in VG // tight binding

The coming of the railway is the most spectacular and exciting thing Jem has ever seen. But not everyone is so enthusiastic. But for Jem and his sister, Kate, there's nothing they can do - they're caught up in the middle of the hatred and uneasiness that is surrounding the village. Can they dissolve the tension before it erupts into violence?

Flora Claibourne had arranged a business trip specifically to avoid having to work with handsome Bram Farraday Gifford. Only, her plan had backfired; he'd decided to come with her! Instead of nine to five, now she was forced to be with this powerfully attractive man constantly—on a romantic tropical island. She craved his touch, his kiss, but the barriers she'd erected around herself were too strong, too high. She wouldn't let anyone near—and Bram was intrigued...and willing to accept the challenge to find out why....

Product Description: This book explores the closely related dynamics of globalization, hegemony and resistance movements in the modern world. Complimented by dramatic explorations of the new trans-border resistance movements, from the contemporary labor movement to the resurgence of nationalism, this book moves beyond the traditional focus on cycles of rise and decline of great powers to asses the pressing questions at the intersection of contemporary globalizations and hegemonic rise, decline and resurgence of civilizations...read more

Product Description: Dr. Olson carries his earlier themes through today’s liquidity crisis, based on new work by Levy Economics Institute, BIS and New Monetarism by David Roche. Dr. Olson traces: 70’s abandonment of the gold standard unleashing a flood of global liquidity; 80s & 90s regulatory hands-on response to boom and bust of liquidity and property, ruining thousands of lenders, borrowers and peoples’ lives, one hand not knowing or caring what others were doing...read more

Product Description: An indispensable and absolutely accessible explanation of the causes of the world economic crisis and how we should respond to it In this urgent and timely book, the man the Daily Telegraph calls "the sage of the credit crunch" shows that although the downturn is global, the complacency of the British government towards the huge "bubble" in property prices and high levels of personal debt, combined with increasingly exotic trading within the financial markets, has left Britain badly exposed...read more

Product Description: This book reflects macroeconomic and fiscal forecasts presented with the "April 2009 World Economic Outlook", as well as information on fiscal stimulus and financial and industrial sector support gathered through mid-May. It follows the request by G-20 leaders for the Fund to assess regularly the actions taken by countries to address the global crisis and accelerate the recovery...read more

Product Description: Dieses Buch zeichnet anschaulich und lückenlos die Entwicklung der Finanzkrise nach. Durch das Aufgreifen konkreter Tatbestände erwirbt der Leser ein tiefes Verständnis für die ökonomischen Zusammenhänge und kann diesem spannenden historischen Abriss problemlos folgen.

Product Description: The financial crisis left major banks crippled by toxic assets and short of capital, while lenders became less willing to finance business and private projects. Extensive government interventions helped to avoid systemic collapse of the economy and stabilize the global financial system...read more

Product Description: For most people, the reasons for the sudden collapse of our economy still remain obscure. I.O.U. is the story of how we came to experience such a complete financial disaster, starting with the magical proliferation of credit that led to an explosion of lending on the global and local landscapes of banking and finance...read more

He's one of America's most capable, canny, candid, and independent financial experts. Now David M. Walker sounds a call to action. Comeback America is a tough-minded, innovative, inspiring guide to help us avoid the approaching economic abyss and put the country back on track again.As comptroller general of the United States and head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO)—"the nation's top auditor"—Walker warned Congress and the administration as the federal surplus became a giant deficit under George W. Bush. As president and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, he now works full-time to raise public awareness regarding mounting debt burdens being imposed on future generations. Comeback America is his crucial manifesto, a way for President Obama to end out-of-control government spending and reform our tax, retirement, health care, defense, and other systems—before it's too late.Walker believes that by 2030, absent significant reforms to current government programs and policies, federal taxes could double from current levels, meaning less money and poorer education for kids—which will hurt families along with our nation's economic strength and position in the world. If our foreign creditors—such as China—decide to buy fewer of our Treasury bonds, interest rates will rise and cars and homes will become less affordable. But it doesn't have to be that way. Comeback America shows how we can return to our founding principles of fiscal responsibility and stewardship for future generations. The book includes bold ideas to control spending, save Social Security, dramatically alter Medicare, and simplify the tax code—all taking into account the Obama Administration's current efforts, which receive never-before-published assessments both complimentary and critical.    Nonpartisan, nonideological, and filled with a love of the country its esteemed author has spent his life serving, Comeback America is a book for anyone interested in America's economic future—in other words, a book everyone should read.

Product Description: Former Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson -- who was at the very epicenter of the crashing financial markets -- provides a startling, first- person account of what really happened during this time of global financial crisis - and this revised edition features fresh and original material from Paulson on the five-year-anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis...read more