Witch Is When the Bubble Burst

Witch Is When the Bubble Burst
Author: Adele Abbott
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2015-11-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781515155188

The pen is mightier.. When a heiress is kidnapped, P.I. (and witch par excellence), Jill Gooder, is ordered not to get involved. Whoops! And why is Winky acting so 'normal'? ..but the custard creams are tastier.

Witch Is When It All Began

Witch Is When It All Began
Author: Adele Abbott
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2015-08-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781515155065

When the going gets tough... Private investigator, Jill Gooder, has been hired to find a serial killer because, as usual, the police can't buy a clue. Jill, the not so proud owner of a crazy, one-eyed cat, probably can't expect too much help from her PA/Secretary, Mrs V, who spends all day knitting. And just in case all of that wasn't bad enough, Jill's just about to discover she's a witch. ...break out the custard creams.

When the Bubble Bursts

When the Bubble Bursts
Author: Hilliard MacBeth
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2018-06-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1459742052

A newly updated edition for the fast-changing real estate market in Canada! Over the last two decades Canadians have become convinced that real estate is the “safe haven” investment. This widely held belief and obsession with real estate led millions of Canadians to take on massive amounts of debt — tripling their collective financial burden — ensuring that Canada is one of the most indebted nations on the planet. Drawing on dozens of interviews and even more conversations with individual Canadians and couples, this second edition also tackles the economic conditions and regulatory rules that allowed such a dangerous situation to develop in Canada, formerly a nation of conservative and prudent citizens. Hilliard MacBeth argues that Canada is in the midst of an unprecedented real estate bubble and that there will soon be a crash in house prices, triggering a financial crisis. Individual Canadians and families can still take action to protect themselves from the fallout of the bubble bursting — if they act quickly.

Cooking up Murder

Cooking up Murder
Author: Debbie Ries
Publisher: Miidasu Publications LLC
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2021-12-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1956103007

Shawna Taylor goes from cook and cat owner to amateur sleuth one fateful day that changes her life forever. Café owner, Shawna Taylor, has a flair for cooking up tasty food and treats for the residents of Bisbee, Arizona. She also learns she has a flair for solving mysteries when her best friend becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation. Her small town hadn’t suffered a homicide in over fifty years, until the day Sarge Gleason is stabbed in his antique shop with his own vintage dagger. Could he have been murdered by a relative who stands to inherit millions? Or by a shady business partner trying to get away with Sarge’s property? Or is it her own employee who has a closely held motive? Is Shawna working with a murderer? With the help of her friends, an adventurous fashion diva and a zany yoga instructor, Shawna will derail the handsome local detective’s investigation and stir up the town’s secrets. Includes Recipe! P.S. Formerly called Sunset Peak in Cooking up Murder, the real name of the town is Bisbee, which I now use.

Boom and Bust

Boom and Bust
Author: William Quinn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2020-08-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108369359

Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s and Shanghai in the 2000s. As they do so, they help us understand why bubbles happen, and why some have catastrophic economic, social and political consequences whilst others have actually benefited society. They reveal that bubbles start when investors and speculators react to new technology or political initiatives, showing that our ability to predict future bubbles will ultimately come down to being able to predict these sparks.

A Bubble that Broke the World

A Bubble that Broke the World
Author: Garet Garrett
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1932
Genre: Credit
ISBN: 1610164830

"Most of the matter in this book has appeared in the Saturday Evening Post during the last twelve months."--Author's note. June 1, 1932.

Dot.con

Dot.con
Author: John Cassidy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2003
Genre: Capitalism
ISBN: 9780141006666

This is a sceptical history of the internet/stock market boom. John Cassidy argues that what we have just witnessed wasn't simply a stock market bubble; it was a social and cultural phenomenon driven by broad historical forces. Cassidy explains how these forces combined to produce the buying hysteria that drove the prices of loss-making companies into the stratosphere. Much has been made of Alan Greenspan's phrase irrational exuberance, but Cassidy shows that there was nothing irrational about what happened. The people involved - fund managers, stock analysts, journalists and pundits - were simply acting in their own self-interest.

When Bubbles Burst

When Bubbles Burst
Author: John P. Calverley
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2011-01-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1473645182

Surviving the financial fallout John Calverley's new book is about understanding what's going on, how policy impinges on it, what investors can do and what is likely to happen. This extremely topical and timely new book from the well-known economist and Head of Research, Standard Chartered Bank is the first book to examine in depth the financial fallout of 2008 and explore the implications and solutions for individuals, companies and central banks. His previous book, Bubbles and How to Survive Them predicted the current financial situation. He warned vigorously of the danger from the housing bubble and warned that stock prices might take off again and reach vulnerable levels (as indeed occurred in 2006-7.) This essential readable, non-technical guide is essential reading for everyone and particularly for investment professionals everywhere. In this new book - an investor's survival kit - he: * Outlines the crises we now face and reviews how we got here. * Looks closely at the huge housing bubbles in UK and the US, as well as those in Australia, Spain, Japan and Hong Kong. * Explores the anatomy of bubbles and presents a checklist for identifying them. * Tells the story of how the housing bubble led to the current financial crisis and how far prices might fall, focusing on household debt as the value of household assets collapse. * Examines strategies for investors, who must try to avoid bubbles or, more dangerously, seek them out and ride them. * Reveals what will happen next.

Thirsty Dragon

Thirsty Dragon
Author: Suzanne Mustacich
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2015-11-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1627790888

An inside view of China's quest to become a global wine power and Bordeaux's attempt to master the thirsty dragon it helped create The wine merchants of Bordeaux and the rising entrepreneurs of China would seem to have little in common—old world versus new, tradition versus disruption, loyalty versus efficiency. And yet these two communities have found their destinies intertwined in the conquest of new markets, as Suzanne Mustacich shows in this provocative account of how China is reshaping the French wine business and how Bordeaux is making its mark on China. Thirsty Dragon lays bare the untold story of how an influx of Chinese money rescued France's most venerable wine region from economic collapse, and how the result was a series of misunderstandings and crises that threatened the delicate infrastructure of Bordeaux's insular wine trade. The Bordelais and the Chinese do business according to different and often incompatible sets of rules, and Mustacich uncovers the competing agendas and little-known actors who are transforming the economics and culture of Bordeaux, even as its wines are finding new markets—and ever higher prices—in Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong, with Hong Kong and London traders playing a pivotal role. At once a tale of business skullduggery and fierce cultural clashes, adventure, and ambition, Thirsty Dragon offers a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges facing the world's most famous and prestigious wines.

China

China
Author: Thomas Orlik
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2020
Genre: China
ISBN: 0190877405

A provocative perspective on the fragile fundamentals, and forces for resilience, in the Chinese economy, and a forecast for the future on alternate scenarios of collapse and ascendance.