Man vs. Markets Economics Explained (Plain and Simple)

Name: Man vs. Markets Economics Explained (Plain and Simple)
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ISBN: 9780062196651

ISBN-10: 0062196650

ISBN-13: 9780062196651

Edition: 2012

Authors: Paddy Hirsch

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After years of media coverage, do we really understand the financial engineering that brought the global economy to the brink? The lexicon of the markets is laden with terms and acronyms like leverage, securitization, MBS, CDS, and CDO. How can the average person crack the code?Veteran journalist, senior producer at NPR's Marketplace, and Whiteboard Guru. Paddy Hirsch proves it's not impossible to understand what goes on in the glass and steel canyons of Wall Street. In Man vs. Markets, he shows how most international financial transactions are the same as those taking place in stores, car dealerships, and even playgrounds on Main Street.Bonds? They're basically just loans. Futures? You…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 7.01" wide x 9.02" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Foreword


Introduction: The Financial Comer Store



Your Piece of the Action: Stocks, Shares, and Equity Trading



Racking It Up: Debt, and Why It's Not Always a Bad Thing



Under the Skin: How a Company Hangs Together



Derivatives: Devilish? Destructive? Deadly?



Your Jell-0 for My Cake: How Swaps Work



The Folding Stuff: Money, and How It Makes Its Way Around the World



The House Always Wins: The Banking System



Loosening the Beltway: The Fed, the Treasury, and How Government Gets Involved



Gimme, Gimme, Gimme: Consumer Debt, Securitization, and Shadow Banking



Architects of Our Own Destruction: Decline and Recovery in the Financial Markets


Afterword


Index