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Contagion : the financial epidemic that is sweeping the global economy--and how to protect yourself from it / John R. Talbott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Talbott, John R., 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deregulation--United States.
- Deregulation.
- Financial crises--United States.
- Financial crises.
- Finance, Personal--United States.
- Finance, Personal.
- United States--Economic conditions--2001-2009.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Tough times are ahead and Talbott argues that the coming recession will be on a global scale, affecting economies across the world. We have had no real growth in GDP for the last ten years if purchases with government and personal debt are excluded. In effect, government borrowing and spending on the war and healthcare and Social Security and corporate give-aways combined with dramatic increases in personal spending funded by credit card and mortgage debt have funded unsustainable levels of personal and government consumption. The world's banks are threatened with insolvency due to bad mortgag
- Contents:
- Bamboozled
- What didn't cause the U.S. housing boom and bust
- What did cause the U.S. housing boom and bust
- The contagion spreads from sub-prime to prime
- How low will housing prices go in the U.S.?
- The U.S. economy was not in great shape to begin with
- U.S. enters a long recession
- The global economy catches the contagion
- Too big to fail : the $400 trillion derivatives market
- Our local governments feel the pinch
- From Wall Street to Main Street
- Demographics magnify contagion
- Which investments and which countries will weather the storm the best?
- Stop the bleeding
- No future without reform
- A warning shot across our bow.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612684104
- 9780470466933
- 0470466936
- 9781282684102
- 1282684108
- 9780470466919
- 047046691X
- OCLC:
- 430505256
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