Banking on Him

Banking on Him
Author: Lexy Timms
Publisher: W.J. May
Total Pages: 204
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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By USA Today Bestselling Author, Lexy Timms. Love like you're never counting the cost. Ten years ago, Bethany Walker was the rich girl who had it all. But her world came crashing down when her father was arrested for stealing millions. Convinced he was framed, Bethany sets out to destroy the powerful Sterling family that ruined her father. She'll do whatever it takes in her quest for revenge—even seduce her greatest enemy. Billionaire banker Kirk Sterling is instantly attracted to Bethany from the moment he meets her. When it comes to relationships he's usually the one in control, but Bethany has the power to bring him to his knees. After he discovers she's in dire financial straits, Kirk will do anything to play the hero to her damsel in distress. Falling for him isn't an option, but Bethany starts to see that Kirk is nothing like she imagined. As she gets closer to him her plan for revenge is in danger, and so is her heart.

13 Bankers

13 Bankers
Author: Simon Johnson
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2010-03-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0307379221
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In spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this oligarchy proved it could first hold the global economy hostage and then use its political muscle to fight off meaningful reform. 13 Bankers brilliantly charts the rise to power of the financial sector and forcefully argues that we must break up the big banks if we want to avoid future financial catastrophes. Updated, with additional analysis of the government’s recent attempt to reform the banking industry, this is a timely and expert account of our troubled political economy.

Lords of Finance

Lords of Finance
Author: Liaquat Ahamed
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781594201820
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Argues that the stock market crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression occurred as a result of poor decisions on the part of four central bankers who jointly attempted to reconstruct international finance by reinstating the gold standard.

Unsettled Account

Unsettled Account
Author: Richard S. Grossman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2010-06-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1400835259
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A sweeping look at the evolution of commercial banks over the past two centuries Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. What are the historical forces that have shaped the modern banking system? In Unsettled Account, Richard Grossman takes the first truly comparative look at the development of commercial banking systems over the past two centuries in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia. Grossman focuses on four major elements that have contributed to banking evolution: crises, bailouts, mergers, and regulations. He explores where banking crises come from and why certain banking systems are more resistant to crises than others, how governments and financial systems respond to crises, why merger movements suddenly take off, and what motivates governments to regulate banks. Grossman reveals that many of the same components underlying the history of banking evolution are at work today. The recent subprime mortgage crisis had its origins, like many earlier banking crises, in a boom-bust economic cycle. Grossman finds that important historical elements are also at play in modern bailouts, merger movements, and regulatory reforms. Unsettled Account is a fascinating and informative must-read for anyone who wants to understand how the modern commercial banking system came to be, where it is headed, and how its development will affect global economic growth.

Central Banking 101

Central Banking 101
Author: Joseph Wang
Publisher: Joseph Wang
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2020-01-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0999136755
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Central banking is magic. With a few words, the Fed can lift the stock market out of desperation and catapult it towards euphoric highs. With a few keystrokes, the Fed can conjure up trillions of dollars and fund virtually unlimited Federal spending. And with a few poor decisions, the Fed can plunge the entire world into a recession. The Federal Reserve is one of the most powerful institutions in the world, and also one of the most difficult to understand. The Fed acts through its Open Markets Desk, which sits at the heart of the global financial system as the world’s ultimate and limitless provider of dollars. On behalf of policy makers, the Desk gathers market intelligence from all the major market participants, sifts through reams of internal data, and works behind the scenes keep the financial system intact. It is responsible for all of the Fed's market operations, from trillions in quantitative easing to hundreds of billions in repo and FX-swap loans. The financial crises of 2008 and 2020 abated only through the emergency interventions of the Desk. Joseph Wang spent five years studying the monetary system as a trader on the Desk. From that vantage point, Joseph saw firsthand how the Fed operates and how the financial system really works. This book is a distillation of his experience that aims to educate and demystify. After reading this book, you will understand how money is created, how the global dollar system is structured, and how it all fits into the broader financial system. The views in this book do not necessarily reflect those of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System.

Banker To The Poor

Banker To The Poor
Author: Muhammad Yunus
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2007-03-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1586485466
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The inspirational story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of millions of poor people around the world. Muhammad Yunus was a professor of economics in Bangladesh, who realized that the most impoverished members of his community were systematically neglected by the banking system -- no one would loan them any money. Yunus conceived of a new form of banking -- microcredit -- that would offer very small loans to the poorest people without collateral, and teach them how to manage and use their loans to create successful small businesses. He founded Grameen Bank based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, and it now provides $24 billion of micro-loans to more than nine million families. Ninety-seven percent of its clients are women, and repayment rates are over 90 percent. Outside of Bangladesh, micro-lending programs inspired by Grameen have blossomed, and serve hundreds of millions of people around the world. The definitive history of micro-credit direct from the man that conceived of it, Banker to the Poor is the moving story of someone who dreamed of changing the world -- and did.

Banker To The World

Banker To The World
Author: William Rhodes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2011
Genre:
ISBN: 9781259002984
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Now featuring a New Preface on The Eurozone Debt Crisis Praise for Banker to the World "From Ukraine to China and Nigeria to Egypt debt and finance are central to global stability and United States interests. No one else has nearly as much experience on the front lines as Bill Rhodes. All who care about the 21st century will profit from close study of his thoughts."--Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University, former Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton, and former Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama "Rhodes's recollections are lively and richly detailed, replete with glimpses of top-ranking personalities from the world of banking and government interacting under pressure, and they provide a rare window into how these important but normally secretive operations of high-level international finance actually work. ..." -The New York Review of Books "Mr. Rhodes was one of the few members of the financial establishment to sense that the world was on the brink of a calamity in 2007 (most of the prophets of doom were either academic theoreticians or maverick financiers) ... Mr. Rhodes is rightly proud of his record in defusing debt bombs and calming financial storms. Let's hope that his successors will be able to make similar boasts in the decades to come." -The Wall Street Journal "Bill Rhodes has made it his life's work to bring common sense to the most serious international problems. On something I know firsthand, the Brady Plan, Bill's steady support and energy were invaluable to its conclusion. This comes as no surprise--that's what he always does." -Nicholas Brady, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury " Banker to the World, a book exceptionally well titled, is an illuminating lesson in leadership, diplomacy, vision, and tenacity. It will be required reading at all levels of finance." -Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State "His memoir is a must for anyone who wants to recapture the behind-the-scenes details of this important recent era of banking history." -Robert Mundell, Nobel Laureate and Professor, Columbia University "William Rhodes' book is an important and interesting one, and something that those who want to understand the past and present better would do well to read. A highly talented banker and wise statesman, Rhodes' book is essential reading as a history, business, and life lesson." -Forbes.com "[S]hould be required r ...

Knowing Your Worth

Knowing Your Worth
Author: Lexy Timms
Publisher: Dark Shadow Publishing
Total Pages: 211
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Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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By USA Today Bestselling Author, Lexy Timms. Love like you're never counting the cost. Bethany Walker wakes up in the hospital with a head injury and no memory of her attacker or how she got there. Worse, she learns her father is back in jail and her family is headed for a crisis. Now, an even bigger threat looms as an unseen enemy stalk her from the shadows, ready to take her down with her father. The only person she can lean on is her boyfriend, Kirk Sterling, the man her family blames for all their problems. After billionaire Kirk Sterling finds an unconscious Bethany, he vows to make his enemies pay for going after her. With his powerful parents now locked up in jail and his financial empire crumbling around him, fighting back won't be easy. A new danger threatens to destroy everything he holds dear, including his Bethany. Will their relationship be enough to help them survive, or will they pay with their lives? Billionaire Banker Series: Book 1 – Banking on Him Book 2 – Price of Passion Book 3 – Investing in Love Book 4 – Knowing Your Worth Book 5 – Treasured Forever Search Terms: contemporary romance, new adult, romance, hot doctors, famous actor, true l, billionaire obsession, contemporary romance and sex, romance billionaire series, free kindle romance, melody anne billionaire bachelors series, billionaire romance, true love, coming of age, overcoming, women's fiction, drugs, fake girlfriend, billionaire, Alpha male romance, Alpha Bad Boy, bad boy, hot romance, hot and steamy, happily ever after, billionaire romance, billionaire romance, new, bbw, b, search words, love, new adult romance, romance love triangle, romance love, sweet love story, billionaire romanc, famos actor, hot doctors, love and life, cancer, fictio, big beautiful women

Misunderstanding Financial Crises

Misunderstanding Financial Crises
Author: Gary B. Gorton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2012-11-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199986886
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Before 2007, economists thought that financial crises would never happen again in the United States, that such upheavals were a thing of the past. Gary B. Gorton, a prominent expert on financial crises, argues that economists fundamentally misunderstand what they are, why they occur, and why there were none in the U.S. from 1934 to 2007. Misunderstanding Financial Crises offers a back-to-basics overview of financial crises, and shows that they are not rare, idiosyncratic events caused by a perfect storm of unconnected factors. Instead, Gorton shows how financial crises are, indeed, inherent to our financial system. Economists, Gorton writes, looked from a certain point of view and missed everything that was important: the evolution of capital markets and the banking system, the existence of new financial instruments, and the size of certain money markets like the sale and repurchase market. Comparing the so-called "Quiet Period" of 1934 to 2007, when there were no systemic crises, to the "Panic of 2007-2008," Gorton ties together key issues like bank debt and liquidity, credit booms and manias, moral hazard, and too-big-too-fail--all to illustrate the true causes of financial collapse. He argues that the successful regulation that prevented crises since 1934 did not adequately keep pace with innovation in the financial sector, due in part to the misunderstandings of economists, who assured regulators that all was well. Gorton also looks forward to offer both a better way for economists to think about markets and a description of the regulation necessary to address the future threat of financial disaster.

The Fix

The Fix
Author: Liam Vaughan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2017-01-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118995724
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"The first thing you think is where's the edge, where can I make a bit more money, how can I push, push the boundaries. But the point is, you are greedy, you want every little bit of money that you can possibly get because, like I say, that is how you are judged, that is your performance metric" —Tom Hayes, 2013 In the midst of the financial crisis, Tom Hayes and his network of traders and brokers from Wall Street's leading firms set to work engineering the biggest financial conspiracy ever seen. As the rest of the world burned, they came together on secret chat rooms and late night phone calls to hatch an audacious plan to rig Libor, the 'world's most important number' and the basis for $350 trillion of securities from mortgages to loans to derivatives. Without the persistence of a rag-tag team of investigators from the U.S., they would have got away with it.... The Fix by award-winning Bloomberg journalists Liam Vaughan and Gavin Finch, is the inside story of the Libor scandal, told through the journey of the man at the centre of it: a young, scruffy, socially awkward misfit from England whose genius for math and obsessive personality made him a trading phenomenon, but ultimately paved the way for his own downfall. Based on hundreds of interviews, and unprecedented access to the traders and brokers involved, and the investigators who caught up with them, The Fix provides a rare look into the dark heart of global finance at the start of the 21st Century.