Economics & Finance
Economics & Finance
Established in 1948, the nation of Israel is comparably very young. It also faces daunting challenges, surrounded by hostile nations, facing an Arab boycott, and boasting few natural resources. Yet today Israel is a...
According to the FBI, Americans lose $40 billion annually to investment fraud, roughly a Madoff-sized scam each year. Not only has the pool of targeted victims surged as baby boomers move into retirement, but...
In Full of Bull, McClellan uses his thirty-two years of experience as a securities analyst on Wall Street to help individual investors decode the Street’s confusing advice and make better investment...
There are some economists who view the current financial crisis as a “once in a hundred years” event in the business cycle that is a severe but necessary readjustment that must be endured. However, the current crisis...
In How to Smell a Rat, Ken Fisher explores how most investment scams can be easily detected and avoided. With his 37 years managing money for individuals and institutions, 25 years writing for the “...
Few concepts in the United States are as deeply rooted as the American Dream. Hard work, determination, a willingness to take risks – these are the qualities needed to succeed, at least in the common narrative....
Animal Spirits dissects standard economic theories and demonstrates their failure to account for human emotion, even though emotions have a large impact on the economy. George A. Akerlof and Robert J....
For many years, managers analyzed risks separately, without considering how they affected the business entity as a whole. In many cases, risk management was handled by the company’s chief financial officer, who often...
Over the past twenty years, the world has experienced some of the greatest changes in human history. The biggest result of any great advancement in the technological and scientific realms is that the 88 percent of the...
During the time following the economic crisis of 2007-09, many warned that the entire U.S. economic system was doomed to fail. In Capitalism 4.0, author Anatole Kaletsky argues that this crisis was...
