Bubbles, Booms, and Busts: The Rise and Fall of Financial Assets (精装)
分類: 图书,进口原版书,Business & Investing(商业与投资),Popular Economics(通俗经济学),
品牌: Donald Rapp
基本信息出版社:SPRINGER VERLAG GMBH (2009年5月1日)精装:274页ISBN:0387876294条形码:9780387876290产品尺寸及重量:24 x 16.3 x 3 cm ; 622 gASIN:0387876294
商品描述内容简介This book provides a thorough explanation of the nature and history of booms, bubbles and busts in financial markets. The first part of the book deals with financial booms and bubbles and how they emerge, develop and collapse. It describes the distribution of wealth, inflation, rationality of bankers, monetary and fiscal policy, the role of central banks, tax policies, social security, US federal, state, municipal and personal debt, and valuation of common stocks. The book describes historical boom/bust cycles including bubbles of the 1720s, the Florida land boom and the stock market in the 1920s, the depression of the 1930s, the SandL scandal of the 1980s, the great bull market of 1982-1995, the crash of 1987, the dot.com mania of 1995-2000, corporate swindles of the 1990s and 2000s, the sub-prime fiasco of the 2000s, and Japan in the late 20th century. Most of the recent wealth generation has derived from increased debt and appreciation of paper assets. The architects of the new economics were Ronald Reagan and Arthur Greenspan. Inevitably, the US Governmenta (TM)s cure for excessive spending and inadequate revenues is to increase spending and cut revenues. American voters must choose between a oetax and spenda Democrats and a oespend and borrowa Republicans. The theme of American finance was uttered by VP Cheney: a oeDeficits dona (TM)t mattera .