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  • Shortchanged

    Life and Debt in the Fringe Economy

    de Howard Jacob Karger ...
    " An eye-opening read in the school of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel & Dimed . . . shines a bright light on the economy's darker side." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)Drive through a low-income neighborhood and you're likely to see streets lined with pawnshops, check cashers, rent-to-own stores, payday and tax refund lenders, auto title pawns, and buy-here-pay-here used car lots. We're awash in ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Child Abuse in America

    de Lela B. Costin, Howard Jacob Karger, David Stoesz ...
    Series series Child Welfare: A Series in Child Welfare Practice, Policy, and Research
    Child abuse policy in the United States contains dangerous contradictions, which have only intenstified as the public slowly accepted it as a middle class problem. One contradiction is the rapidly expanding child abuse industry (made up of enterprising psychotherapists and attorneys) which is consuming enormous resources, while thousands of poor children are seriously injured or killed, many while ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

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  • Crushing Debt

    Why Canadians Should Drop Everything and Pay Off Debt

    de David Trahair ...
    As the majority of Canadians are now spending much more than they make, their debt levels are reaching crisis proportions. Excluding mortgage debt, the average Canadian owes over $25,000 in consumer debt, which poses massive risks not only for the individuals carrying that financial load, but for our entire financial system. In Crushing Debt, bestselling author David Trahair (Enough Bull) warns ... Leer más

    $12.00 USD

  • Makers and Takers

    How Wall Street Destroyed Main Street

    de Rana Foroohar ...
    **Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America?"A well-told exploration of why our current economy is leaving too many behind." —The New York Times**In looking at the forces that shaped the 2016 presidential election, one thing is clear: much of the population believes that our economic system is rigged to enrich the privileged elites at the expense of hard-working Americans. This is a belief held ... Leer más

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  • Chasing Goldman Sachs

    How the Masters of the Universe Melted Wall Street Down...And Why They'll Take Us to the Brink Again

    de Suzanne McGee ...
    You know what happened during the financial crisis … now it is time to understand why the financial system came so close to falling over the edge of the abyss and why it could happen again.Wall Street has been saved, but it hasn’t been reformed. What is the problem?Suzanne McGee provides a penetrating look at the forces that transformed Wall Street from its traditional role as a capital-generating ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Clash of the Cultures

    Investment vs. Speculation

    de John C. Bogle ...
    Recommended Reading by Warren Buffet in his March 2013 Letter to ShareholdersHow speculation has come to dominate investment—a hard-hitting look from the creator of the first index fund.Over the course of his sixty-year career in the mutual fund industry, Vanguard Group founder John C. Bogle has witnessed a massive shift in the culture of the financial sector. The prudent, value-adding culture of ... Leer más

    $19.00 USD

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  • Unintended Consequences

    Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong

    de Edward Conard ...
    In the aftermath of the Financial Crisis, many commonly held beliefs have emerged to explain its cause. Conventional wisdom blames Wall Street and the mortgage industry for using low down payments, teaser rates, and other predatory tactics to seduce unsuspecting home owners into assuming mortgages they couldn't afford. It blames average Americans for borrowing recklessly and spending too much. And ... Leer más

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  • The Shareholder Value Myth

    How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public

    de Lynn Stout ...
    An in-depth look at the trouble with shareholder value thinking and at better options for models of corporate purpose.Executives, investors, and the business press routinely chant the mantra that corporations are required to "maximize shareholder value." In this pathbreaking book, renowned corporate expert Lynn Stout debunks the myth that corporate law mandates shareholder primacy. Stout shows how ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • The Number

    How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America

    de Alex Berenson ...
    In this commanding big-picture analysis of what went wrong in corporate America, Alex Berenson, a top financial investigative reporter for The New York Times, examines the common thread connecting Enron, Worldcom, Halliburton, Computer Associates, Tyco, and other recent corporate scandals: the cult of the number.Every three months, 14,000 publicly traded companies report sales and profits to their ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Wall Street Journal Guide to the New Rules of Personal Finance

    Essential Strategies for Saving, Investing, and Building a Portfolio in a World Turned Upside Down

    de Dave Kansas ...
    Everything you thought you knew about saving, managing risk, and securing your financial future has changed.The world is very different in the wake of the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. Retirement accounts have been eviscerated, risk appetites diminished, and questions raised about age-old personal finance strategies such as "buy and hold" and the efficacy of relying heavily ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Future for Investors

    Why the Tried and the True Triumphs Over the Bold and the New

    de Jeremy J. Siegel ...
    The new paradigm for investing and building wealth in the twenty-first century. The Future for Investors reveals new strategies that take advantage of the dramatic changes and opportunities that will appear in world markets.Jeremy Siegel, one of the world’s top investing experts, has taken a long, hard, and in-depth look at the market and the stocks that investors should acquire to build long-term ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism is the World Economy's Only Hope

    de John A. Allison ...
    The #1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerDid Wall Street cause the mess we are in? Should Washington place stronger regulations on the entire financial industry? Can we lower unemployment rates by controlling the free market?The answer is NO.Not only is free market capitalism good for the economy, says industry expert John Allison, it is our only hope for recovery. As the nation’s longest-serving CEO ... Leer más

    $20.79 USD