Global Financial Crisis

Bankruptcy is fast becoming an everyday topic of conversation. Like most specialties, bankruptcy law has a language of its own. Its unfamiliar words and phrases make it difficult to comprehend. It is important to understand key terms and phrases while going through the bankruptcy process....

The subprime mortgage crisis has already wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people....

According to Unintended Consequences, the conventional wisdom masks the real causes of our economic disruption....

From the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the subject of the 2007-08 financial crisis has been well covered. However, the story central to the crisis - that of AIG - has until now remained largely untold....

The ideas of John Maynard Keynes have never been more timely....

Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse....

The year is 2018. The United States has finally emerged from the previous decade's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the economic recession that threatened to tear the country apart....

In January 2015, Yanis Varoufakis, an economics professor teaching in Austin, Texas, was elected to the Greek parliament with more votes than any other member of parliament....

Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries--but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none....

An insider of both the Bush and Obama administrations offers an irrefutable indictment of the mishandling of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bailouts and the extreme degree to which our government officials....

The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American concept: confidence....

Did Wall Street cause the mess we are in? Should Washington place stronger regulations on the financial industry? Can we lower unemployment rates by controlling the free market? Answer: no....

With narration by Richard Lyddon, who reveals why our addiction to debt caused the global financial crisis and is the root of our financial woes....

In the midst of one of the most serious financial upheavals since the Great Depression, George Soros writes about the origins of the crisis....

Krugman walks us through the financial crisis that triggered the greatest downturn since the Great Depression and outlines the efforts that have been made thus far....

Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown were rational responses to a flawed global financial order....

Turk and Rubino are back to say that history is about to repeat....

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.

Veteran New York Times economics reporter Edmund L. Andrews was intimately aware of the dangers posed by easy mortgages from fast-buck lenders....

Based on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank That Lived a Little is the story of one of the most familiar names on the British high street since Big Bang in 1986....