Lessons from the Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Our Economic Future

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Rob Quail
John Wiley & Sons, Sep 9, 2010 - Business & Economics - 704 pages

The world's best financial minds help us understand today's financial crisis

With so much information saturating the market for the everyday investor, trying to understand why the economic crisis happened and what needs to be done to fix it can be daunting. There is a real need, and demand, from both investors and the financial community to obtain answers as to what really happened and why.

Lessons from the Financial Crisis brings together the leading minds in the worlds of finance and academia to dissect the crisis. Divided into three comprehensive sections-The Subprime Crisis; The Global Financial Crisis; and Law, Regulation, the Financial Crisis, and The Future-this book puts the events that have transpired in perspective, and offers valuable insights into what we must do to avoid future missteps.

  • Each section is comprised of chapters written by experienced contributors, each with his or her own point of view, research, and conclusions
  • Examines the market collapse in detail and explores safeguards to stop future crises
  • Encompasses the most up-to-date analysis from today's leading financial minds

We currently face a serious economic crisis, but in understanding it, we can overcome the challenges it presents. This well-rounded resource offers the best chance to get through the current situation and learn from our mistakes.

 

Contents

Ten Myths About Subprime Mortgages
How Did We Get Here and Where Do
A Decade of Living Dangerously
Making Sense of the Subprime Crisis
Miraculous Financial Engineering or Legacy Assets?
The Making and Ending of the Financial Crisis of 20072009
The Subprime Mortgage Problem
Sequence of Asset Bubbles and the Global Financial Crisis

The Global Crisis and Its Origm
Four Paradoxes of the 20082009 Economic and Financial
CONCLUSION
The Origins of the Financial Crisis
The Past Present and Future of Subprime Mortgages
FHA Loans and Policy Responses to Credit Availability
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ROBERT W. KOLB is the Frank W. Considine Chair of Applied Ethics and Professor of Finance at Loyola University, Chicago. Before this, he was the assistant dean, Business and Society, and director, Center for Business and Society, at the University of Colorado at Boulder and department chairman at the University of Miami. Kolb has authored over twenty books on finance, derivatives, and futures, as well as numerous articles in leading finance journals.

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