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Five years on from the worst ever financial crash, a new landscape has emerged. The rules of the banking system are being re-written, and bankers, politicians and ordinary men and women are asking fundamental questions about how they should operate. Investigating recent revelations which have shattered trust in the banking system, the series asks whether this new damage to our banks' reputations has had an impact perhaps greater than that of the financial...
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This book provides a definitive account of the recent history of the International Monetary Fund, and the successes it has enjoyed since it was founded. With fascinating contributions by current and former IMF staff members, this book offers a unique insight into the workings of the organization and explores how it has benefited many.
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"The recent financial crisis was an accident, a 'perfect storm' fueled by an unforeseeable confluence of events that unfortunately combined to bring down the global financial systems. And policy makers? They did everything they could, given their limited authority. It was all a terrible, unavoidable accident. Or at least this is the story told and retold by a chorus of luminaries that includes Timothy Geithner, Henry Paulson, Robert Rubin, Ben Bernanke,...
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Focusing on the 2012 banking industry scandal that took down banking legend Bob Diamond, bank bosses, regulators and politicians address how the balance of power has finally started to shift away from the masters of the universe. Ironically, this game-changing crisis erupted over the widespread rigging of an obscure rate-setting mechanism, Libor, rather than over the tumult of the financial crash. Former Barclays chairman Marcus Agius, RBS boss Sir...
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The subprime mortgage crisis of 2007-2008 has already wreaked havoc on the lives of millions and threatens to derail the U.S. economy and economies around the world. Here, economist Robert Shiller reveals the origins of this crisis and puts forward bold measures to solve it. He calls for an aggressive response--a restructuring of the institutional foundations of the financial system that will not only allow people once again to buy and sell homes...
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