The unfair trade how our broken global financial system destroys the middle class

"The global financial system has enormous influence on the day-to-day lives of billions, yet is shrouded in mystery and poorly understood. Through narrative-driven reporting, vivid storytelling, and perceptive analysis Michael Casey brings to light the distorted, dysfunctional global economic system...

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Main Author: Casey, Michael, 1967-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crown Business, c2012.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1: The rise of China
  • Origins of dysfunction : how we got here
  • Average Joes : drowning in a sea of global financial liquidity
  • Virtue and vice : the savings and debt conundrum
  • The long reach : China's insatiable appetite
  • Race to the bottom : losers in the global economy
  • pt. 2: The rise of global finance
  • Global finance between a rock and a hard place : too big to fail and too big to succeed
  • The little nation that could : cutting bankers down to size
  • PIIGS and the systemic crisis : when bond vigilantes get their dander up
  • The global liquidity machine
  • What is to be done? : Toward a less tumultuous world.