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  • Chairman of the Fed

    William McChesney Martin Jr., and the Creation of the Modern American Financial System

    This is the first biography of William McChesney Martin, Jr. (1906-1998), the first paid president of the New York Stock Exchange and the chairman of the Federal Reserve System under Presidents Truman to Nixon. The extent of Martin’s influence on the course of American economic history was significant: arguably he has done more to strengthen and reform the nation’s most important financial ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    by Benjamin Roth ...
    An enlightening and personal daily account of the experience of the Great Depression in the midwest, full of anxieties about the economic future, with powerful echoes for today.**"Compelling." —**New York TimesIn the early 1920s, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer fresh out of the army. He settled in Youngstown, Ohio, a booming Midwestern industrial town. Times were good—until the stock market crash ... Read more

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  • The Age of Turbulence

    Adventures in a New World

    **The acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir from "the pre-eminent economic policymaker of his time" (The New York Times)"First rate . . . Intelligent in a way that few popular books on economics manage or even try to be." —The Economist**The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command ... Read more

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  • All the Presidents' Bankers

    The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power

    by Nomi Prins ...
    A groundbreaking narrative of how an elite group of men transformed the American economy and government, dictated foreign and domestic policy, and shaped world history.Culled from original presidential archival documents, All the Presidents' Bankers delivers an explosive account of the hundred-year interdependence between the White House and Wall Street that transcends a simple analysis of money ... Read more

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  • Revolt!

    How to Defeat Obama and Repeal His Socialist Programs

    Revolt! is a battle cry for the newly elected Republican majority from the New York Times bestselling authors of Outrage, Fleeced, Catastrophe, and 2010: Take Back America. Dick Morris and Eileen McGann offer a blueprint for rolling back the worst of the legislation passed by the Obama administration and an agenda for establishing new, conservative policies. Revolt! provides the necessary keys to ... Read more

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  • The Alchemists

    Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire

    by Neil Irwin ...
    When the first fissures became visible to the naked eye in August 2007, suddenly the most powerful men in the world were three men who were never elected to public office. They were the leaders of the world’s three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, and Jean-Claude Trichet of the European Central Bank. Over the next five ... Read more

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  • Age of Greed

    The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present

    by Jeff Madrick ...
    **A vivid history of the recent economics of greed in the United States. This book explores how the pursuit of immense personal wealth has led to economic inequity and instability in the country.“A fascinating and deeply disturbing tale of hypocrisy, corruption, and insatiable greed. . . . A much-needed reminder of just how we got into the mess we’re in.”—The New York Review of Books**Age of Greed ... Read more

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  • Exorbitant Privilege:The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System

    The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System

    For more than half a century, the U.S. dollar has been not just America's currency but the world's. It is used globally by importers, exporters, investors, governments and central banks alike. Nearly three-quarters of all $100 bills circulate outside the United States. The dollar holdings of the Chinese government alone come to more than $1,000 per Chinese resident. This dependence on dollars, by ... Read more

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  • FDR's Folly

    How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

    by Jim Powell ...
    The Great Depression and the New Deal. For generations, the collective American consciousness has believed that the former ruined the country and the latter saved it. Endless praise has been heaped upon President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for masterfully reining in the Depression’s destructive effects and propping up thecountry on his New Deal platform. In fact, FDR has achieved mythical status in ... Read more

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  • The End of Prosperity

    How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen

    Arthur Laffer -- the father of supply-side economics and a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board -- joins economist Stephen Moore of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and investment advisor Peter J. Tanous to send Americans an urgent message: We risk losing the exceptional standard of living that has made us the envy of the rest of the world if the pro-growth policies ... Read more

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  • Volcker

    The Triumph of Persistence

    Over the course of nearly half a century, five American presidents-three Democrats and two Republicans-have relied on the financial acumen, and the integrity, of Paul A. Volcker. During his tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, when he battled the Great Inflation of the 1970s, Volcker did nothing less than restore the reputation of an American financial system on the verge of collapse. ... Read more

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  • The Forgotten Depression

    1921: The Crash That Cured Itself

    by James Grant ...
    James Grant’s story of America’s last governmentally untreated depression: A bible for conservative economists, this “carefully researched history…makes difficult economic concepts easy to understand, and it deftly mixes major events with interesting vignettes” (The Wall Street Journal).In 1920–1921, Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding met a deep economic slump by seeming to ignore it, ... Read more

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