Credit Crisis

In the summer of 2007, the subprime empire that Wall Street had built all came crashing down. On average, 50 lenders a month were going bust - and the people responsible for the crisis included not just unregulated loan brokers and con artists, but also investment bankers and home loan institutions traditionally perceived as completely trustworthy.

Alison Bergeron has her doubts about hosting a birthday party for her twin stepdaughters, seeing as it’ll include all of her new husband’s ex-in-laws. Still, she’s a good sport, and everyone has a great time, especially the girls, who receive $10,000 from their estranged uncle, Chick. The girls’ father, NYPD Detective Bobby Crawford, and Christine, his ex, think the gift is too much. When Crawford swings by Chick’s apartment to return it, he finds Chick dead, with roughly $250,000 stuffed in his mattress. The death is ruled a suicide, but Christine isn’t convinced, and even Alison can’t help but admit that there must be a lot more to Chick’s death than meets the eye.

Andrew Ross Sorkin's website Andrew Ross Sorkin's interview on Charlie Rose Watch a Video Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner...

In The Shadow Lenders: Private Credit, Hidden Debt, and the Next American Financial Crisis, Emeric Corvin pulls back the curtain on the fastest growing and least understood part of global finance.

In the midst of one of the most serious financial upheavals since the Great Depression, George Soros writes about the origins of the crisis and proposes a set of policies that should be adopted to confront it. Soros places the current crisis in the context of his decades of study of how individuals and institutions handle the boom and bust cycles that now dominate global economic activity.

Soros makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the great credit crisis and its implications for our nation and the world.

Do you know what it is like to have to pay more or be treated poorly because of your credit? Are you puzzled about why your credit score has just dropped when you are working so hard to jump it up quickly? Every day millions of Canadians like you are looking for answers about credit and don’t know where to turn. The Credit Game contains the insider secrets I have learned over the last decade helping thousands of Canadians increase their score and fix their credit.

What if you could get an extra $100, $200, or even $500 deposited directly into your brokerage account within the next 24 hours? That might sound impossible...but with credit spreads...it’s not just a possibility...it’s a certainty. Because with credit spreads, every single trade pays you when you enter it. And you can use these to generate safe returns, no matter what happens to your stock. Unlike regular options trading, you don’t even need to guess the direction of a stock, or what price it will be in a month. You only have to guess a price range.

Mises wrote this book for the ages, and it remains the most spirited, thorough, and scientifically rigorous treatise on money ever to appear. This classic treatise was the first really great integration of microeconomics and macroeconomics, and it remains the definitive book on the foundations of monetary theory. As Rothbard points out in his introduction to "the best book on money ever written," economists have yet to absorb all its lessons.

The leveraged credit market is currently valued at over $4 trillion and is one of the fastest-growing asset classes, fueling demand for well-trained credit analysts. This comprehensive manual teaches the skills to succeed in the dynamic and complex credit markets. Michael Gatto brings complex case studies to life using decades of his firsthand stories and combines them with reflections from leading industry professionals.

Arnold Ziegel formed Mountain Mentors Associates after his retirement from a corporate banking career of more than 30 years at Citibank. The lessons learned from his experience in dealing with entrepreneurs, multinational corporations, highly leveraged companies, financial institutions, and structured finance led to the development and delivery of numerous senior level credit risk training programs for major global financial institutions from 2002 through the present.

Analyzing the political and banking history of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil through several centuries, Fragile by Design demonstrates that chronic banking crises and scarce credit are not accidents due to unforeseen circumstances. Rather, these fluctuations result from the complex bargains made between politicians, bankers, bank shareholders, depositors, debtors, and taxpayers.

Credit card debt is a form of unsecured debt taken from a financial tool - usually credit cards. These credit card debts are generated when the credit card holder purchases products from these cards, and accumulates due to the interest charged on it. Difficulty arises because people are not able to repay their loans effectively or in time. When a card holder is unable to pay his debts he is declared as defaulter.

Uncover the anatomy of market crashes and corporate fraud in this gripping exploration of global financial history. Perfect for an intense morning commute, this tense narrative exposes the dangerous cocktail of easy credit, misplaced trust, and reckless speculation that builds every economic...

Are you sick and tired of being the victim of faulty credit reporting or mistakes of the past? Have you thought about doing something about your credit score but feel overwhelmed and don't know where to start? Do you finally want to say goodbye to being worried the next time a potential employer, landlord, or bank says they are going to check your credit? If so, then you've come to the right place. In this audiobook, you will learn the factors that affect your credit score and how you can fix them. You will also discover ways to pay off debt.

We need credit for everything nowadays, whether it's to buy a house, car, or get a loan. As you grow older, your needs change and so does your credit. Analyzing your own credit can be difficult if you don't understand what it entails. This audiobook will teach you the importance of credit and all the factors involved, from credit scores, debt, credit cards, and credit mistakes, that can contribute to or destroy ones' credit.

In his acclaimed book American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips warned of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the spiking cost (and growing scarcity) of oil- warnings that are proving to be frighteningly accurate. Now, in his most significant and timely book yet, Phillips...

The credit crunch affected every investor and every consumer, every industry and every government program, yet few people truly understand how it happened. Subprime mortgages were center stage, but behind the scenes a conspiracy of greed among bankers, investors, rating agencies and regulators imperiled everyone's financial future. We need to know what went wrong and how to change the practices that led to this calamity.   

Business Credit Decoded is an insider's guide on how to build an exceptional business credit score and profile for any business. This book will reveal how a business owner can be approved for tens of thousands of dollars in revolving credit cards and credit lines. Plus, this special book reveals how business owners can secure large amounts of cash funding for their business without a personal guarantee required from the business owner.

"David McWilliams is a terrifically energetic narrator with a perfect Irish lilt."—Kirkus In this fresh, eye-opening global history, economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money—from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to cryptocurrency in Silicon Valley. This program...